Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is calling on the government to reopen the consultation process for the Hunter Coast Offshore Wind Project. The Opposition leader has spent Wednesday morning meeting local residents and business owners on the New South Wales mid-north coast who are against the wind farm project. The declared wind zone stretches 18,000 square kilometres from Swansea to Port Stephens and is at least 20 kilometres offshore. The Albanese government says it received almost 2,000 submissions as part of its consultation process earlier in the year and in July it reduced the size of the wind zone to exclude the central coast town of Norah Head following fierce community backlash. The community in Port Stephens say their concerns about the wind turbine project potentially destroying the natural environment are being ignored. Mr Dutton says residents and business owners in Shoal Bay are being treated like second-class citizens over the lack of consultation over the government's renewable wind project. “The consultation process just hasn’t been up to scratch, and I think this is another project where Chris Bowen has misread the community, is acting against the best interest of this region,” Mr Dutton said on Wednesday. “This project needs to be put on hold until a proper consultation process can be undertaken.” The government is pushing ahead with the Hunter Coast Offshore Wind Project which is expected to create 3,000 construction jobs and the windfarm is expected to generate enough electricity to power more than four million homes.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is calling on the government to reopen the consultation process for the Hunter Coast Offshore Wind Project.
The declared wind zone stretches 18,000 square kilometres from Swansea to Port Stephens and is at least 20 kilometres offshore. The community in Port Stephens say their concerns about the wind turbine project potentially destroying the natural environment are being ignored.
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