Fast-tracking or ploughing through? Renewable energy shaping up as defining issue for Victorian election (opens in new tab)

Most landholders in regional Victoria support renewable energy – if they get a say. But planning approvals are riding roughshod over community concernsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterThe wind never really stops on Peter Watts’ hill. On his grazing property, 90km north-west of Bendigo, it sweeps in across the plains and picks up strength as it climbs. “I can go up there any time of the day,” Watts says. “It might be completely still down here but it’s always windy up there.”For f...