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"If you ask Paul and Andrea Sturgess how much their view is worth, the answer
is: priceless. To the electricity transmission network operator Transgrid, it’s
less than $800,000.
Their property beside the Blowering Reservoir in southern New South Wales is a
uniquely Australian sight. Big brushstrokes of wattle creep up the ridge,
clumps of yellow sitting between burnt-out gums – a legacy of the black summer
bushfires of 2019-20.
The Sturgess farm, where they run cattle and harvest eucalyptus oil, has been
in Paul’s family since the 1950s. There were two electricity connections
through it when he inherited it. He and Andrea don’t want any more.
“These lines went in in the 70s and I’ve lived with them ever since,” he says.
“And there’s not a day goes by that the lines don’t affect me somehow.
“Either I see them or I hear them or I’m trying to do something in the paddock,
plough a paddock, move the cattle, and those lines are in the road.”
The Sturgesses are part of an increasingly agitated argument over how Australia
will embrace the clean energy needed to respond to the climate crisis and what
that means for its natural landscape."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
