Instead of cutting electricity bills, the government instead presided over a 20 per cent jump

There are protests around the country as Aussies reject the green spin that it’s worth wrecking the landscape with 40 new wind turbines a month over the next seven years for … well, what?

The Albanese government’s net zero plans are in a shambles, as Australians revolt against the mad idea of saving the planet by destroying it.

Whatever made Energy Minister Chris Bowen think Australians would accept having their landscape ruined by wind generators more than a quarter of a kilometre tall, plus 10,000km of hideous transmission lines to hook them all up?

There are now protests around the country.

In Tasmania, locals at Stanley celebrated this week after two years of fighting a planned wind farm near the beautiful coastal outcrop called The Nut – a project now scrapped.

The Nut and Stanley Peninsula, where the wind farm project has been scrapped.

In NSW, voters in two marginal Labor seats are trying to stop a huge wind farm off the coast above Newcastle.

Further south, about 1000 people rallied at Wollongong on Sunday against an offshore wind farm there, too.

Inland, locals are fighting plans for 400 wind turbines in state forests in the Central and Southern Tablelands.

People are protesting around the country against wind farms.

One meeting of the Oberon Against Wind Towers was attended by 550 people in a shire of just 5000.

In Queensland, the Friends of Chalumbin group is fighting another wind farm in an area adjacent to World Heritage-listed rainforest.

The developer has now halved the number of planned turbines to 42, hoping to appease it.

In Melbourne in July, protesters drove tractors around Parliament House, furious at plans for transmission lines across their land for the Western Renewables Link from Bulgana in Victoria’s west to NSW.

Protesters drove their tractors to parliament to oppose transmission lines across their land. Picture: David Crosling

Australians aren’t buying the government’s green spin, that it’s worth wrecking the landscape with 40 new wind turbines a month over the next seven years for … well, what?

No one now believes green energy is cheaper.

Instead of cutting electricity bills by $275, the government instead presided over a 20 per cent jump in just one year.

And who really believes this will save the planet from a climate catastrophe? What catastrophe, anyway?

This revolt has caused an amazing transformation.

This week’s Essential poll found that Australians, once religiously antinuclear, are now 50 per cent for it, just 33 per cent against.

No surprise. The beauty of nuclear generators: They’re not just zero emissions and 24/7, but you can just build them where coal generators are now.

No new transmission lines needed.

Our land is too nice to destroy in the name of Labor’s global warming religion.

The government’s renewables crusade is doomed and Bowen should admit it.

Originally published as Instead of cutting electricity bills, the government instead presided over a 20 per cent jump