Ben Abbott No Coastal Wind Farms at Reckless Renewables rally

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00:00 Ben, can you tell us why the No Coastal Wind Farms group is here today?

00:05 Yeah, that's easy. We're down here to support all the people against this current scheme,

00:10 that is the renewables proposal, the way it is.

00:14 We don't agree with the way it's been rolled out,

00:16 and we don't agree with the way they want to be implementing it over such a short period of time.

00:21 And what are you hoping to achieve here today?

00:24 To raise awareness everywhere, to make an impact on State Parliament,

00:27 and for people to be able to see that we have support.

00:31 We're under the understanding that there could be, if there's 5,000 of us, there's 50 people here.

00:36 We're just going to keep on taking that message.

00:39 And you had a meeting with Chris Bowen the other day. What are the next steps for your group?

00:43 So the meeting with Chris Bowen, although originally seen from the public as being a little bit negative,

00:49 was actually quite positive.

00:50 The next step for our group will be continuing looking to try to communicate down those lines.

00:57 And the communication was good, but we've got an information session up in Port Stephens on the 10th of December.

01:05 What we're looking forward to is going in on Parliament down in Canberra on the 6th of February,

01:10 and there'll be actions over the Christmas break.

01:14 We want to get awareness out there to the hundreds of thousands of people coming up to Port Stephens for the holidays,

01:20 because we truly believe that on the broader scale, people aren't understanding or even aware of what's going on.

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