You know renewables are finished when our volunteer firefighters go on strike over them! 👇 “CFA brigades are taking strike action, refusing to fight fires on land hosting high-voltage transmission lines, solar or wind farms, over what they call the Victorian government’s “reckless renewables expansion” Most of the brigades are in communities that are being carved up by the 500kV Victoria-NSW Interconnector and subject to more wind and solar farm developments, as the Allan Government rushes to generate 95 per cent of the state's electricity from renewable › sources by 2035. The volunteer firefighters have written to Emergency Services Minister Jaclyn Symes and CFA chief officer Jason Heffernan stating they would "restrict turn-out commitments to incidents at electricity generation and transmission infrastructure sites to 'property perimeter defence'," only entering the site if lives were at risk. Gre Gre Village CFA captain and St Arnaud deputy group officer Peter Knights said: "Our brigades are not prepared to defend renewables infrastructure that destroys our communities, carves up our land, reduces our productive capacity and divides people." Most of the 24 brigades backing the strike sit along 120kms of the proposed VNI West transmission line corridor, from north of Stawell and out past Charlton...” Quote from: weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/c… #auspol