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Dinner in stables
Horsham College students, from left, Emily Hannan, Meg Ballinger, Ally Hiscock, Bree Netherway and Kaylee Schmidt are busy preparing Horsham Showground’s historic stables for a Dinner in the Stables event. Picture: MICK SHANNON
Five year-nine Horsham College students at Horsham College have been busy preparing for a unique community project to support this year’s Horsham Show.
The group is working on a Dinner in the Stables event which involves the students being involved in all aspects of planning for a dinner experience in Horsham Showground’s historic stables behind Maydale Pavilion on Saturday night. The stables, built after the First World War, will house guests in individual stables. Each of the stables has the potential for up to six people. Every Wednesday during the school term the students have been cleaning stables at the showgrounds, sourcing equipment, entertainment and planning decorations. Show secretary Andrea Cross said it was wonderful that opportunities like the community dinner were available for students to create something meaningful, which in turn supported others. She said the students had organised a magician, singersongwriter Meg Sampson who won last year’s Horsham Show Has Talent competition, a photographer from We Shoot, and more to entertain diners. “Of course, Max the Mascot for the Horsham Show has already been invited to be the date for one of our guests and he’s always a crowd pleaser,” Mrs Cross said. The Horsham Agricultural Society also plans to host an autumn Dinner in the Stables in an effort to make it an annual event. People seeking more information regarding the threecourse medieval-style dinner, can call Horsham Show office on 5381 1187.
Project waiting game evelopers are likely to scrap plans for a proposed $600-million central Wimmera wind farm if review recommendations on a national Renewable Energy Target or RET scheme win parliamentary approval.
Project spokesman Kevin Garthwaite from RES Australia, which wants to build a 32-kilometre farm at Murra Wurra between Horsham and Warracknabeal, said the project was too large to go ahead without support. “It the review recommendations went through as they stand, I couldn’t see an investment of that size happening,” he said.
“The review has gone the way we thought it might but there is still quite a long way to go and it has to get through the senate. We’re fighting on through the Clean Energy Council.” The independent biennial review of the Federal Government’s RET scheme, which provides financial incentives or subsidies for renewablepower generation, recommends closing the Large-scale RET scheme to new renewable power stations. It however recommends the scheme continue to provide support for stations already under construction or others that can prove there is ‘full financial and contractual commitment’. This might provide a life-line for Ararat district wind-farm projects that
are already under construction such as RES Australia’s 75-mill Ararat Wind Farm and Pacific Hydro’s 41-turbine farm at Crowlands. The review panel justifies its recommendations based on declining electricity demand in Australia which means, apart from a costly way of cutting greenhouse emissions, there is no need for a subsidy program.
Positive results Mr Garthwaite said the industry needed government help to become established and the Federal Government’s own modelling had shown positive results. “In terms of the result the government has the answer it wanted, which
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was what would the impact be on energy prices? Their own modelling clearly shows it would have a negative affect,” he said. Mr Garthwaite said billions of investment dollars were ‘ready to go’ in the industry but were now sitting idle. “This is just not helping. The amount of subsidies that fossil-fuel companies get through tax breaks means the renewable industry needs RET support to simply create a level playing field,” he said. Another option in reviewing recommendations for Large-scale RET scheme is to ensure that renewable power generation makes up half of future growth in electricity demand. The review panel has also recom-
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mended either scrapping or phasing out a Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme, a financial incentive program for households that install renewable energy systems such as solar panels. Studies into the impact of maintaining or scrapping or dismantling the RET show contrasting projections and effects on household electricity bills. Some say costs will ultimately fall with the RET in place but others suggest it will drive prices up. Meanwhile, the Murra Warra project, which would involve more than 100 windmills across 22 properties and has attracted enthusiastic support from Horsham Rural City and Yarriambiack Shire councils as well as property owners, remains in limbo.
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