Chinese renewables ‘garbage’ being ‘dumped’ onto Australian farmers

Geologist Ian Plimer says farmers have “every reason to object” as they are being “treated dreadfully” by the Albanese government. Mr Plimer’s comments come after reports of the Labor government preparing to build Australia’s largest solar farm in Victoria’s famous Heathcote wine region. “They are having cheap Chinese panels just dumped on them,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Why should we take someone else’s garbage, owned by a foreign company, to actually destroy some of our prime land? “High-value agricultural land is actually turned into something worthless.”