Energy infrastructure payments of $200K deemed ‘slap in face’ to Victorian farmers

State government defends payments for projects designed to help guarantee energy stability across Australia’s east coast

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A move to pay landowners $200,000 per sq km for energy infrastructure imposed on their properties has been labelled a slap in the face by a Victorian farmer.

Residents living in the path of several transmission projects in regional Victoria have previously protested against high-voltage power lines and towers more than 80m high and are calling for infrastructure to be placed underground instead.

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