Tasmania's peak business body has lashed an environmental group opposing a big North-West renewable energy development.
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The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry described the Bob Brown Foundation's opposition to the proposed Robbins Island and Jims Plain wind farms as unfathomable and contradictory.
"For decades, the Green movement has been lecturing us that we should be investing in renewable energy", TCCI chief operating officer Colleen Reardon said.
"The attack by their campaigner, Scott Jordan, on the transmission line required to link the far North-West development to our grid is disappointing and fails to recognise that the long-term benefit to the environment and economy needs to be balanced with immediate environmental impacts .
"The transmission line is going through all the appropriate approvals processes - as it should - and we would urge the Bob Brown Foundation to support renewable energy development in this state.
"The development, jobs and renewable future these projects bring are too important to this state to be used as a political football."
Liberal Senator Claire Chandler also got stuck in after Mr Jordan described the transmission project as a "biodiversity catastrophe" and reiterated the group's opposition to the two wind farms.
"The Bob Brown Foundation's continued opposition to renewable energy development in Tasmania shows once again that the foundation will attack any major job-creating industry in our state," Senator Chandler said.
"In his own words, Bob Brown has made clear that he is opposed to the Robbins Island wind farm because it will "divert from the local scenery" and will be visible to "mariners" and "landlubbers".
"His foundation's latest attacks on the infrastructure required to connect new renewable energy projects in Tasmania should be clearly seen in this context."
Senator Chandler said the Green movement loved lecturing governments and the public about energy policy, but was now trying to put a handbrake on job-creating energy projects.
"It's no surprise to Tasmanians who have seen Bob Brown and the Greens attack tourism, aquaculture, forestry, mining and farming that yet another job-creating industry is now on their hit list."
Mr Jordan said: "Of course the Bob Brown Foundation supports renewable energy."
"There are over 100 renewable energy projects either built or in development around the country, including a dozen in Tasmania, and this one - emphasise one - is a terrible project and it will be built on the deaths of tens of thousands of seabirds, wedge-tailed eagles and destruction of a huge tract of temperate rainforest and eucalypt forest.
"Just because a project is renewable doesn't mean we're going to be blind to a project which causes this much damage."
Mr Jordan said Senator Chandler was clearly on a mission to denigrate people who stood up for Tasmania's environmental values.