Catriona Rowntree unleashes over controversial new plan
Catriona Rowntree has slammed the Victorian Labor government's plans to cover land at Mount Rothwell under solar panels
The Getaway star shared her call to action in an Instagram video shared on Monday.
“Welcome to beautiful Mount Rothwell in Little River,” Rowntree began in her video.
"This is actually the number one film location in Victoria. This has been the scene of so many incredible movies and productions, bringing in a fortune for the local government.
"This incredible area Vic Labor is now considering covering this whole area with a solar farm in its rush for renewables.
"They are considering all these completely wrong locations."
She previously opposed the state government's plans to build a huge lithium battery farm next to her family property near Little River, and mentioned it again in her most recent video.
Rowntree branded the planned lithium battery farm as a fire hazard, saying: “So how can you help? Some of you may know that we have been battling as well, they want to put a lithium facility in a firezone in Little River.
“What did Little River ever do to the Labor government? I don’t know why you keep picking on us," she continued.
"No one will talk to us, it’s been nearly seven months, we’ve heard nothing.”
In her caption for the video, Rowntree said she had no choice but to "get political" and vote for Liberal candidate Steve Murphy in the upcoming Werribee state by-election, saying: "He actually took the time to visit us and see how wrong this area is for their renewables”.
"Has it come to this?" she wrote.
"Do I have to get political to get someone to notice the region that VIC Labor wants to destroy?"
She also issued a direct plea to the premier, tagging Jacinta Allen and asking: “Where are you? Why do you want to ruin what is the Number 1 film location in Victoria? Why won’t anyone from Victorian Labor stop this?”
"You should be ashamed,” she told the state government.
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