Gippsland South energy infrastructure
Danny O’BRIEN (Gippsland South) (09:52): Gippslanders’ heads are spinning at the moment as a bewildering array of projects, plans and possibilities land on our doorstep, from 12 proposed offshore wind farms, multiple proposed onshore wind and solar farms, the Marinus Link electricity connection to Tasmania, CarbonNet, the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project, Bass Strait oil and gas decommissioning, new transmission lines and now VicGrid’s ill-considered Victorian transmission plan. We are being consulted at every turn and virtually every day of the week. While I do not object to the consultation it is confusing for the community, and I call on the state government to take on a leadership role to help coordinate all this consultation, especially with respect to offshore wind and its transmission connections.