How the Marinus Link transmission project is dividing landholders and experts
Victorian dairy farmers are protesting the Marinus Link project, a major electricity transmission line that cuts through private agricultural land. Landholders argue that the construction will disrupt essential farming operations and negatively impact property values.
Why it matters
This highlights the tension between national infrastructure development for renewable energy and the property rights and livelihoods of local landholders.
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Share A A A To the untrained eye, the disruption to Paul Peluso’s property from a major interstate electricity transmission line seems minor, perhaps even lucrative.
Peluso’s dairy farm lies in the proposed path of the Marinus Link project, which includes 345 kilometres of power and data cables running from north-west Tasmania to the Latrobe Valley in Victoria.
The cables will run beneath the Bass Strait and continue underground in Victoria. Whether they want to or not, many Victorian landholders including Peluso will host them.
Paul Peluso on his dairy farm. Joe Armao It is crucial national infrastructure for electricity sharing between states, its backers say. But Peluso fears the four-hectare easement on his 180-hectare farm will ruin his dairy business in Mirboo North.
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