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Renewables expansion puts prime farming land at risk, Taylor says

Taylor expands on the opposition to renewables:

As always, with any projects, there's good projects and bad projects but 28,000km of transmission lines, and a big loss of prime agricultural land that we're starting to see right across Australia, we think there's a better way. [The Coalition's] Ted O'Brien is working away on this. We already said quite a lot about energy policy in recent times and we'll continue to.