General News
10 June, 2023
Three hours for next community talks
LODDON communities will be given three hours to ask questions on VNI West. Transmission Company Victoria, the new AEMO entity formed for the renewable energy transmission line project, has announced the first of five community consultation sessions...
LODDON communities will be given three hours to ask questions on VNI West.
Transmission Company Victoria, the new AEMO entity formed for the renewable energy transmission line project, has announced the first of five community consultation sessions will be in Boort early next month,
The session will come as TCV moves from the current Option 5A area of interest up to 50km wide is to be narrowed to preferred corridor of 500 metres to 1000 metres by July.
“Information from environmental surveys will help to further refine the route to an easement of around 70 to 120 metres by 2025.”
Other consultation sessions will be in Kerang, Charlton, Navarre and St Arnaud.
“A series of booths will provide information on a range of key topics such as farming and bushfire risk,” says TCV.
More than 500 submissions received by AEMO to the previous Option 5 consultation have been released on its website. Among local groups to make submissions were Loddon Shire, Loddon Plains Landcare and Wedderburn Conservation Management.