Overland plan to link Sydney to Snowy 2.0 risks more NIMBY delays
Renewable energy infrastructure across NSW could face more community roadblocks because of the Minns government’s refusal to put transmission cables underground, non-government MPs say. State MPs have warned that the $5 billion HumeLink transmission project to connect Snowy 2.0 to Sydney could face more delays and cost blowouts after the NSW government dismissed calls to bury the power lines. The MPs also warned that failing to take community concerns into account could trigger more delays to critical infrastructure because they could deny access to land the project needs to cross.
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Transgrid’s $5 billion HumeLink transmission project to connect Snowy 2.0 to Sydney could face more delays and cost blowouts after the NSW government dismissed calls to bury the power lines, state MPs said.
Labor Premier Chris Minns declared NSW will press ahead with plans to build the 320-kilometre HumeLink transmission cable – which crosses farmland and national parks – above ground, after an upper house report found that changing course to go underground would be too expensive.
Coalition and crossbench MPs on the Labor-majority committee that prepared the report called it a sham which ignored the bulk of evidence from communities and landowners and failed to commission analysis on the cost of putting the lines underground.
The MPs also warned that failing to take community concerns into account could trigger more delays to critical infrastructure because they could deny access to land the project needs to cross.
“This inquiry was a ‘tick-a-box’ exercise ... in looking like the government was taking community concerns around the various proposed transmission line projects in the pipeline in NSW seriously, but had already made up its mind,” Greens MP Cate Faehrmann wrote in a dissenting statement on the report.
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