fuck my local council they want to throw away $100K to fight a solar+battery farm that is on the fringe of dubbo as it's prime residential expansion (which I get, we need more houses), there's a bit of nimby-ism, and the deputy mayor is a cooker the article states that council staff advised the councillers that this is a very long shot and the spend is likely a waste of cash! meanwhile the **sole** open space sporting area west of the wambuul doesn't have enough reticulated capacity to be watered not just once a week. at all. zero watering is done there the department that runs it has zero plans to fix that. they have done nothing in at least 5 years to provide adequate facilites to half of the town yet let's throw away $100K on this bullshit? https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/9340310/dubbo-regional-council-spends-100k-on-long-shot-rezoning-bid #dubbo #nswpol