It was a great pleasure to appear on Wendy Agar’s emPOWER Podcast recently and discuss some of the key takeaways of my Churchill Fellowship report, especially around community engagement and community benefits.
Through our conversation, we talked through:
- What motivated me to take on the Fellowship
- What I set out to learn
- Some key examples of good practice, including:
- Scotland’s approach to community benefits
- Cedillo’s solar power system
- Some of the cautionary tales that I came across, like:
- Windpark Noordoostpolder‘s unintended consequences
- Overdevelopment generating pushback in eastern Spain
- The journey that the UK fishing industry has been through
- Where I see the learnings for the Australian context
For anyone who doesn’t feel like reading the report, it’s a quick way to get across some of my key findings. If you’re interested in hearing the full conversation, you can find it here.