Wimmera grain grower Simon Tickner will feature in a new film series about Australia’s shift towards renewable energy.
Mr Tickner, who farms at Wallup, southwest of Warracknabeal, joins parents, community leaders and former councillors and coal workers to deliver his perspective about what regional Australia can gain from the energy shift.
For 50 years, the Tickners’ broadacre grain farming enterprise has operated under transmission lines and they have now added wind turbines to the mix.
Mr Tickner agreed to share his family’s story as preferred easement discussions are carried out with landholders in the eastern part of the Wimmera about new transmission infrastructure.
“Before the transmission lines went in, I remember my father being a bit unsure about the impact it would have on our farming operations,” he said.