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Oliver Carney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
17 total appearances

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CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

And Cornifalla, it's such a lovely name to say.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

What does it mean?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

But, of course, Borden and Mona would say it's not either or, it is and.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

They would say, look, we need green energy, we can put the wind turbines up and we can do nature restoration and we can do flood mitigation and it can still pull down carbon.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

This is a bog that in 1987 Bordenamona started to harvest peat from.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

There are an awful lot of spider webs everywhere and moths coming up as we walk.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

It looks very sweet and very pretty, but it's kind of devilish, isn't it?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

Anything that's going to eat its prey like that.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

So what do you want to happen to this 1,000-acre bog, which is essentially owned by the public but managed by Board Nimona?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

We need clean energy, and it seems like a kind of good place to put it because it's connecting into the grid.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

It's a big open space.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

There aren't loads of houses everywhere.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

In terms of the national interest, does that not make sense?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

But Amanda, I mean, you don't want this wind turbine either, but the reality is, from a national interest point of view, we need green energy.

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

So where are we going to get it from?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

Oliver, do you think that fundamentally what we need is a kind of overarching plan, national plan, for how we use the land?

CountryWide
Cornafulla Bog competing land uses

So this is where we do farming, this is where we do onshore wind, this is where we do tourism, this is where we build houses.