Tanya Plibersek blocks Victorian government’s plan to build wind turbine plant at Port of HastingsEnvironment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development
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Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian government to build a plant to assemble wind turbines for offshore windfarms because of “clearly unacceptable” impacts on internationally important wetlands.
Plans to build the terminal at the Port of Hastings – seen as critical for the state’s strategy to develop an offshore wind industry – included dredging up to 92 hectares (227 acres) of the Western Port Ramsar wetland and reclaiming 29 hectares of seabed.
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