Peak environment groups in SA urge the state government to increase natural protections as renewable projects advance.
abc.net.au/news/calls-for-nature-protection-in-sa-renewable-energy-pursuit/102124384South Australia is aiming for 100 per cent net renewable energy generation by 2030, but a consortium of environmental groups has warned of risks posed by renewable projects to the state's biodiversity without better planning.
"The number of species and ecosystems that are crashing and collapsing around us is unprecedented in history," Ms Davis said. "Every time proposed projects go forward at the moment, the native vegetation clearance comes right at the end of the process," Ms Davis said. "If we don't do this planning work now, we're going to have more and more conflicts between nature and renewables."The consortium pointed to a proposal for a desalination plant at or near Point Lowly to support the mining of critical minerals and hydrogen power as a possible point of contention.
"At the moment, an individual pastoral leaseholder can enter into an arrangement with a company that wants to put in a solar or wind farm, and the minister just gets to say 'yes' or 'no', we're not involved in building up the case for where it should be, what conditions and so on," Ms Close said.
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