‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest

They want nearly 14 hours to back farmers whose livelihoods they feared were being ruined by the deployment of new wind and solar projects.

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those who spoke of conspiracies holding that the condensation trails left across the skies by jet aircraft were full of chemicals designed to the United Nations Nationals leader David Littleproud said regional Australia had reached a saturation point of large-scale renewables.

He said there was now a case to be hundreds constrain future renewables to rooftops in capital cities, rather than “tearing up prime agricultural land, tearing up native vegetation, not destroying the very thing they are there to protect’s very thing,” he said.

Critics see the growing movement against renewables as an effort to stoke the climate wars.

Labor is watching the movement against renewables with concern, and that Lab COVID determined to press the case against them.

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