Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner Tony Mahar claims bullying, harassment and intimidation is occurring in communities who are divided over the renewable’s rollout.
Speaking at a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Mr Mahar says he’s heard face-to-face stories of children being intimidated at school, and families being ostracised because of the views that they might or might not hold.
Mr Mahar says fire risk and compensation questions are some of the concerns he and his team hear regularly, anxieties he believes can be “exacerbated by lack of understanding or trust and fuelled by misinformation.
The Australian Associated Press reports Professor Daniel Angus, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society, believes there’s a level of deception behind the scenes of the argument saying there’s a lot of groups who are trying to position in the debate confusion, or try and slow any kind of meaningful change, for example, uptake of renewables
