Launceston Examiner
Monday 23/4/2007 Page: 10
DORSET Mayor Peter Partridge has welcomed news of a potential revival of the stalled $230 million Musselroe Bay wind farm on the North-East coast. Renewable energy company Roaring 40s made the optimistic prediction earlier this month after a move by the Victorian Government to introduce its own Victorian Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets scheme. The NSW Government has also indicated it could introduce such a scheme. The MRET proposal allows viable electricity retailers in NSW to offset their renewable energy liability against projects outside NSW.
Cr Partridge said he was excited to see the project gaining momentum after Roaring 40s shelved it last year when the Federal Government refused to increase its MRETs. "We've done a fair bit of work on the Musselroe project and we think it's a very worthwhile project," Cr Partridge said. "It's a renewable energy. The wind is wonderful - you use it and it goes past and you can use it again if you want to. "To see it come to fruition, that would be wonderful.
"It would create employment and it's a non-polluting industry; that's the sort of industry that we'd like to see (in the Dorset municipality)." He said his council had been doing all it could behind the scenes to breathe life back into the project, such as lobbying federal politicians. He said he didn't have figures on how many people would be employed at the wind farm once it was operating, but said there would be employment opportunities during the initial construction phase.
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