Renewable energy providers were left off the guest list of an Energy Forum hosted by Regional Development Australia Northern Inland (RDANI) last Friday, with members of the Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas (AACSG) claiming it was nothing more than a forum for Coal Seam Gas providers and energy users.
Protesting outside the forum last Friday, spokesperson for AACSG Carmel Flint was outraged that renewable energy and the community was locked out of an invite-only Energy Forum.
“We think this forum is giving a free run to the Coal Seam Gas industry at the expense of renewable energy and the community,” said Carmel Flint. “We are really concerned to see a government agency like RDANI basically picking a winner on energy, cutting out one industry and promoting another that doesn’t even exist on the Tablelands yet and may never exist in terms of Coal Seam Gas. “Yet renewable energy is proven; New Englanders have been one of the biggest up-takers of solar panels, we have a community wind farm on the way; so it is an extraordinary step and really raises a lot of questions about what is going on inside the NSW Government.”
Armidale Independent
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