The Allan government will debate giving VicGrid the power to access private farmland to build transmission towers in regional Victoria. Farmers are furious.
Potato farmers Katherine and Ben Myers with their children Charlotte 9, Tommy 7, and John 2, on their farm near Ballarat, Victoria. Arsineh Houspian
For almost five years, communities in western Victoria have been locked in a fierce battle over a proposed 190-kilometre transmission line that would carry renewable energy from the regions into Melbourne.
They say they have been lied to, manipulated and gaslit by AusNet, the company delivering the project; the Australian Energy Market Operator which manages transmission in Victoria; and the state Labor government.
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