Daniel Andrews announces Labor’s commitment wind

energy at the Challicum Hills wind farm.

Both the Napthine and Abbott governments

have called on the RET to be weakened.

Victorian government MP, Andrew Katos, has publicly questioned the Napthine government’s anti-wind farm laws just weeks out from the state election. The move signals growing tension amid Liberal ranks about the controversial policy.

Renewable energy is a mainstream issue as the Victorian election campaign officially begins. The writs have been signed and the state is now in caretaker mode.

Premier Denis Napthine.

Liberal candidate for the hotly-contested seat of Macedon, Donna Petrovich, has shifted her position on wind energy as a result of a community campaign. The move could signal a shift on wind energy policy from the Napthine government.

The 400-strong People’s Climate March in Kyneton, 21 September.

Macedon Ranges residents ‘ride for renewables’,

visit the site of what could be Victoria’s next community wind farm.

Keppel Prince wind worker ‘Grub’, a proud wind worker.

Community power: ‘Gusto’, one of Hepburn Wind’s turbines.