This is a year of elections. Engage with candidates and sitting Members as to what their position is on renewable energy. If we don’t get involved we will continue to get sloppy policy. Rural and regional Australians need a Federal Senate Inquiry into the rush towards reckless renewables. 2024 Local Government Elections – Electoral Commission of Queensland: https://event.elections.qld.gov.au/Ev… Contacting Senators and Members – https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_M…Transcript
Jim Willmott discusses impact of the rush to reckless renewables citing Victoria as an example of things to come. Images: Power lines came down in Anakie, near Geelong, as damaging winds battered the state. Nine News. Power lines came down in Anakie, near Geelong, as damaging winds battered the state. Nine News.
The Reckless Renewables Rally was a great event and opportunity for rural and regional communities to make it clear that their stress, community impacts and environmental damage is being ignored by the Federal ALP government.
Unite against the Australian Government’s reckless and hasty rollout of unreliable renewables.
PRA Chairman Jim Willmott provides an overview of some key issues facing property owners in 2024. They include: New IR laws, Trickle down impacts to small business of new climate emission reporting requirements on big business, Fireant biosecurity nightmare and PRA’s upcoming billboard campaign.
Jim WIllmott begins 2024 with a reminder of what Property Rights Australia is all about. To follow will be another video with an update on PRA activities and upcoming events.
PRA YOUTUBE 2023 VIDEOS
Jim updates members on the undermining of the Queensland seafood industry.
Jim WIllmott provides an update on PRA activities and upcoming events.
Jim WIllmott provides an update on PRA activities and upcoming events.
Rural & regional communities are under attack from completely out of touch activists and politicians. What can you do about it? Craig Bailey’s answer is to join Property Rights Australia. PRA’s motto is STAND YOUR GROUND, and that is what they are prepared to do.
Landowners faced with quickly developing complex circumstances encroaching on their land or community, which are driven by government and multinational business; do need the guidance or tools to how to handle the situation.
Released on July 5 was the Queensland Renewable Energy Landholder Toolkit in a partnership by the Queensland Farmers Federation (QFF) and the Queensland government.
“The need is there, but what could have been an important resource falls short of the mark; constrained because of QFF tying itself to government,” Chairman of Property Rights Australia (PRA) Jim Willmott said; “Advocacy is diminished when policy position is to walk in step with a State Government that has little interest or concern for rural and regional Queensland?”
In the emerging spotlight on the environmental, social and food security impacts, the poorly planned rush to renewables is starting to lose wider public credibility.
“It is clear Minister Mick de Brenni and the Queensland Government have all but dismissed the impacts on rural and regional communities in the pursuit of energy transformation with its industrialised sites and connecting infrastructure,” said Mr Willmott.
“The Minister misused the release of the toolkit to apply government spin, misdirect attention and be misleading about the impacts on landowners.”
“Victoria is well down the renewable energy pathway. Interestingly the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) is taking a very different approach to this issue and continues to advocate for fairer laws, and better strategic planning for renewable projects and transmission lines in agricultural areas and regional communities.”
Politicians at all three levels of government continue to call for a Senate Inquiry on the rush to develop renewables. “We want government to pause and plan properly with respect to our energy transformation to ensure that rural communities, our food production and environment are protected for future generations.”
PRA recognises the need for the provision of current information and practical guidance for landholders impacted by the renewable energy rollout. However, QFF has failed to acknowledge the reality faced by many landowners and communities.
PRA calls on QFF to support the call for a Federal Senate inquiry into the impacts of renewables and associated transmission connections on rural and regional Australia.
Jim Willmott PRA Chairman Mobile: 0439 451 473 Email: jimmytecnam@yahoo.com
Jim WIllmott provides an update on PRA activities and upcoming events.
Property rights Australia is calling politicians from both sides of the house to look at the real damage being done to rural communities and the environment in which they live due to inadequate regulation and planning for renewable energy projects. Rural Australians are being asked to wear the impacts of renewable energy project developments but who is really benefiting financially because it’s not a win for the environment or regional communities that have to host these projects – Jim Willmott, Interim PRA Chairman.
Rural and regional communities deserve better. Property Rights Australia (PRA) is calling for a Federal Senate inquiry regarding the impacts on rural and regional Australia from renewable energy developments and associated transmission projects.
Katherine Myers holds degrees in economics, agricultural science and property valuations. She is a strong advocate for the protection of our rural and regional landscapes. Katherine grew up in a small town outside of Melbourne before her career in farm systems modelling and banking took her to the regional centres of Warragul, Bendigo and Ballarat. She, her husband Ben and four children farm at Tourello in the Victorian Central Highlands. They are the third generation to farm potatoes, sheep and crop on this property.
Katherine has always had a keen interest in the balance between the needs of agriculture, society and the environment – particularly around urban expansion and right-to-farm issues. This interest became a burning passion in 2020 when an unexpected letter arrived announcing their farm was within an “area of interest” for a 220kv transmission line.
Since that letter arrived, Katherine has taken on formal advocacy roles with the Moorabool and Central Highlands Power Alliance and the Victorian Farmers Federation, where she is currently Horticulture Vice President, and sits on the Workforce and Social Infrastructure Committee, Child Farm Safety Committee and the Transmission and Renewable Energy Taskforce.
Katherine brings an intelligent, rational and evidenced based position to the advocacy issues she tackles.
Jim Willmott provides an update of PRA work focusing on high voltage powerline infrastructure and 2023 conference. Communities are feeling the impact of the roll out of renewable energy projects.
Katy McCallum from Kilkivan talks with Property Rights Australia regarding proposed electricity transmission infrastructure and how we can work together to secure a better deal from government owned energy corporations.
Multiple corridors of massive high voltage transmission lines connecting the rush for renewable power generation to the electricity grid are to be strung across landowner’s properties. Very poor consultation with a lack of consideration to the impacts on people has caused a lot of community concern. Property Rights Australia was there to help community groups come together on the 17 March 2023 at the ‘Say No To The Lines’ rally at Widgee (west of Gympie). PRA Chair Rob Atkinson gave this short talk.