Renewable energy company SunCable has its eye on a site in northern Tasmania to manufacture a subsea cable, as a part of an ambitious plan to send electricity to Asia. But local opinion is mixed regarding the project that would see a 200-metre tower built in the area.
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00:00 How do you connect Singapore to the Northern Territory and the Tamer River in northern
00:07 Tasmania?
00:08 According to one ambitious company with a really long cable, Sun Cable wants to send
00:14 solar power generated in the top end to the southeast Asian island metropolis of Singapore,
00:20 and it wants to build a 4,300 kilometre cable to carry that power at Belbae in Tasmania,
00:27 a plan which has worried some locals.
00:30 We have fended off, if you like, 30 locations across the globe, so this is a huge opportunity.
00:39 The cable factory would include a 200 metre high tower.
00:43 That's twice as high as Hobart's Rest Point Casino, and would be Tasmania's tallest structure.
00:49 From his house across the river at Clarence Point, Charles Sherlock will be looking directly
00:53 at it.
00:55 He's worried about the effect of noise on local residents and river wildlife.
00:59 How is this going to affect the health of the Tamar estuary going right the way down
01:04 along to Launceston?
01:05 His neighbour, Gail Hack, has been organising meetings to inform the community.
01:10 We've been doing a lot of work in actually saying, "Do you realise that this is happening,
01:15 and this is what it's going to look like?"
01:17 At a Sun Cable community consultation meeting, some locals raised concerns, while others
01:22 welcomed potential jobs and economic investment.
01:25 Sun Cable says it wants the community to understand and have an influence on the project.
01:31 We've gone early, sometimes to our detriment, because sometimes there have been questions
01:36 to which we don't have the answers.
01:38 Experts say it's critical to the renewable energy transition to bring along nearby residents.
01:44 Community consultation is done well when it started early.
01:48 It needs to be genuine, open, transparent, and allow people the time that they need to
01:55 really understand the changes or the development that's being proposed.
02:01 Sun Cable plans to lodge an application for major project status with the Tasmanian government
02:06 in coming weeks.
02:07 If that's approved, an independent panel would then assess the project and seek community
02:11 views on it, before deciding whether or not the cable facility can be built at Belle Bay.
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