Farming Lives Matter
The Moorabool News
They are big, bold and tough; they are potato farmers from Springbank and Bullarook and they care about their land, their produce and their families; Farming Lives Matter!
The Moorabool News published a story on the 23th of June 2020 with an interview of the Maher family, whose property has been targeted as one that will be in the path of the proposed high voltage transmission towers.
Kevin, his brother Peter and cousin Basil and Andrew voiced their concerns at a community meeting in Myrniong, against the above ground high voltage transmission lines that are destined to ‘adorn’ their property, and 70-kilometres of the Moorabool Shire. The Mahers raised concerns about the 85m high transmission lines transgressing their property being a monstrosity that will attract lightning strikes and were unsure of how the emissions from the towers would affect their potato produce, which they supply to McCains in Ballarat.
The Mahers also pointed out that the transmission line will traverse the Moorabool district, however no Moorabool residents will benefit from the additional electricity supply, because it will terminate at Sydenham in Melbourne.
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Welcome to the home of Darley Power Fight. A group of residents in Darley, Coimadai and Merrimu, united against high voltage transmission towers passing through our backyard. We came together through the realisation the transmission line will divide a narrow corridor between Darley and the Lerderderg State Park; altering landscape character, causing widespread damage to critical habitat for threatened species, increasing fire risk to the Park and thousands of residents, destroy our visual amenity, harm local agriculture and will impact businesses and property values. It will completely desecrate, in a few years, what nature has taken millions of years to create.
