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"Australia’s renewable energy transition is accelerating, but so too is the
widening gap between those who support it and those who increasingly, and
loudly, oppose it.
Anyone tuning into last week’s Senate inquiry into misinformation and
disinformation on climate and energy will have heard just how entrenched these
divisions have become.
Beneath the engineering challenges of transmission lines, solar farms and wind
projects now sits a deeper problem: trust. And according to Professor Sara Bice
— one of Australia’s leading scholars of social licence — trust rests on one
thing above all else.
“The number one driver of public trust in an infrastructure development is the
level of confidence in the regulation that’s guiding that development,”
Professor Bice told the
SwitchedOn Australia podcast.
That should ring alarm bells in Canberra. Regulation is moving slowly.
Misinformation is moving fast. And the gap between the two is becoming a
defining tension of the entire transition."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
