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The Moorabool News – 5 April, 2022 Page 9
AusNet sells out Council Mee�ng
By Lachlan Ellis
Moorabool Shire Council
Commi�ee Mee�ng
AusNet Services, owner and operator of Victoria’s transmission network, has officially been sold to a Canadian multinational, with the new ownership coming into effect on February 16 this year. On 1 November last year, AusNet put out a media release stating that it had agreed to the terms of a Ordinary Scheme Implementation The next Mee�ng of Council will be held Victoria Transmission Network Project Deed (SID), “under which Brookfield is to on Wednesday 7 July 2021 in the(WVTNP), Council Chambers, 15 Stead Brookfield St and whether acquire all the shares in AusNet for cash would push for it to be put underground, Ballan, star�ng at 6.00 pm. consideration by means of a scheme of a spokesperson for Brookfield told the arrangement”. Moorabool News the project’s planning was For details a�endance by or toa the view the agenda, go to The purchase wason undertaken ongoing. consortium led by Brookfield Asset www.moorabool.vic.gov.au “Brookfield understands the energy Management Inc., which includes Sunsuper transition journey that Victoria and Australia Superannuation Fund, Alberta Investment are currently experiencing, and the critical Management Corporation, and the role that projects like the Western Victorian Investment Management Corporation of Transmission Network Project play in Ontario. facilitating that transition,” Brookfield’s Brookfield is one of the world’s largest spokesperson said. alternative investment management “There is still a long way to go to develop companies, investing in renewable power, the project, and Brookfield supports AusNet real estate, infrastructure and more, in over to continue its exploration of options and 30 countries. working closely with landholders and the When asked about AusNet’s Western local community.”
would caution that these transmission lines will impact so many regional Victorians and regional Australians, that Brookfield need to tread carefully and make sure they have social licence before these projects go ahead,” she said. “We’re not going away, and there will be more and more communities standing against these enormous structures if they’re put in the wrong places. We really hope with a new company like Brookfield, they’ll look at new technologies, rather than staying with the old ‘tried and true’ stuff that we think is unsafe.” Ms Muir said she was unimpressed with Brookfield’s comments regarding AusNet and the WVTNP. “I think it doesn’t say anything, it leaves it very open…I would ask, do they understand how appalling this project has been, and how appallingly AusNet has run it? We really hope they correct the wrongs AusNet has done. We hope Brookfield will do better, and we expect AusNet to do better,” she said. The acquisition cost a reported $7.7 billion USD, or around $10.2 billion AUD.
Navigators Community Centre Incorporated Public Mee�ng Brookfield will seek to “continue with AusNet’s existing strategy and accelerate the growth of the business”, the spokesperson added. “The acquisition of AusNet also presents an opportunity to invest significant further capital in a private setting to support increased renewable energy projects, the electrification of the economy and the broader energy transition,” they said. Community groups protesting the WVTNP’s overhead plans are hopeful for meaningful change after the acquisition, but Chair of Stop AusNet’s Towers, Emma Muir, isn’t holding her breath. “I would hope they’ll be better to deal with, they couldn’t be any worse. But I note from what they’re writing about, they see an opportunity to make money in the transmission of power and renewables in Victoria. They’re here to make money…I
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