IT remains unclear if Robyn Lewis (Silence On Housing Plan For Solar Farm Spot Says A Lot, letter, August 26) runs sheep, but after many years of experience in the sheep and wool industry, the last thing I would be doing is subjecting my flock to a life covered with solar panels.
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Good luck with that to Tom Warren at Dubbo. Cattle and cropping obviously don't even get a start.
She also suggests those objecting to the solar farm are not objecting to a housing estate. Not sure how many are in that camp, but I'm certainly not a fan of either proposal.
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Why can't the residents of Bathurst, instead of a French company, get the return by covering the city's buildings with solar panels? No extra space needed.
Surely an effort by government to upgrade a connection to a suitable transmission line is more than feasible.
At last count, mankind was using concrete at the rate of three tonnes per year for every person on the planet and I've lost count as to the projected world population by 2050.
Australia is the world's driest continent with a minimal amount of fertile agricultural land.
If the recent drought and current pandemic haven't taught us that we will need every acre of land and every litre of water to be self-sufficient into the future then nothing will.
The endless growth theory would appear to be heading over a cliff.
