MCF Seminar Series: How Traditional Owners are powering the clean energy transition

The clean energy transition will occur on vast tracts of Australian Traditional Owners’ Country. Much has been written on this trend, yet until now exactly how Traditional Owners are managing and benefiting from large-scale wind, solar and green hydrogen projects on their Country has been known only to the handful of people who negotiate the commercial-in-confidence agreements for these projects. In this seminar, Dr Lily O'Neill presented recently completed qualitative research, which looked behind the wall of confidentiality to present startling and very welcome findings, including that, unlike for mining, oil and gas projects, Traditional Owners have a legal veto over large-scale clean energy projects.