Western Victoria Region
Joe McCRACKEN (Western Victoria) (12:48): (388) My question is to the Minister for Environment and relates to the biolink created by a number of locals and the Pentland Hills Landcare Group near Myrniong in my electorate. I ask the minister to provide to the Myrniong community and me information relating to the advocacy she has undertaken to ensure that the biolink is retained and not ruined due to transmission lines that are planned to go right through the link. As the member for Ripon says, there is no social licence for these lines. The biolink is a very significant local project that has a number of environmental benefits. It goes for 33 kilometres along the Myrniong Creek, and it has been an ongoing project for a number of years. Many locals have contributed to it. Locals have even given up land for this project to come to fruition. That is under threat because a big powerline is going to go right through the middle. The link is no longer going to be a link, and there are going to be a number of detrimental environmental outcomes because of this. I really hope the minister can update me and others about what progress she has made to advocate on this.