HASTINGS, Australia -- Fifty years ago, the Port of Hastings was at the center of Australia's energy ambitions as the country's first oil and gas fields began production in Bass Strait between the mainland and Tasmania.

Australia is pursuing offshore wind as one means of greening its power grid. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Australia's Minister for Climate Change and Energy and courtesy of Victorian State Government)
Transforming port into turbine assembly site clashes with environmental concerns