Tuesday, 2 June 2026

 Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (14:41): (2336) My constituency question is for the Minister for Energy and Resources. On 15 May a blade failed and fell at the Lal Lal wind farm near Yendon – the second such incident there, following a blade lost to lightning in September 2019. My constituents want to know what became of the first blade and what will become of the most recent one. Are they simply cut up and buried onsite? With the Codrington wind farm in my electorate due for decommissioning in 2027 and its operator acknowledging there is no international standard for blade recycling, what is the government’s policy for disposing of the thousands of tonnes of fibreglass and composite waste generated by both incident damage and planned decommissioning across Victoria?