Why the hostility to renewable energy in the Bush?
Across regional Australia, renewable energy developments have become sites of increasingly contentious political debate. While concerns about land use, environmental impacts and community consultation are often legitimate, opposition to these projects also operates within an information environment shaped by organised resistance to climate policy by certain political parties, fossil fuel lobbyists, concentrated media ownership, and transnational political networks.
Understanding the misinformation environment requires a close examination of how particular narratives are produced, legitimised, and circulated. 360info also asked what the renewable companies should do better, how to better inform communities, and introduce new initiatives that genuinely support the regions - not just those who fly-in, fly-out.
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