Mastodawn

This is a really tragic and telling story of how extremely severe disinformation killed off a very, very good community battery project (the size of 3 parking spaces) in Australia. Right next to one of Australia's biggest and most catastrophically harmful coal seam gas fields, as well.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-28/misinformation-kills-narrabri-community-battery-project/106120264

In coal country this battery didn't stand a chance

A community battery project three years in the making, run by a local not-for-profit and backed by the council, was killed after a spark of misinformation about its fire risk was ignited.