Hanson promises more coal, fewer renewables without detailing cost

Warren Pickering, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce revealed some energy policies to a crowd of 1,000 One Nation supporters in the small western Victorian town of Marnoo last night.

The party's Victorian leader said coal and gas were the state's future and Pauline Hanson said Victoria should be considering nuclear.

One Nation has revealed some of its energy policies to a crowd of 1,000 supporters in western Victoria, promising to reinvest in coal and gas, and ditch renewable energy projects.

The party was the headline act for a Farmers Fightback rally in the small Wimmera town of Marnoo last night, where anger over the VNI West transmission project is boiling over.

Farmers Fightback is a farmer-led group that protests against large-scale renewable energy and transmission-line projects on agricultural land.

One Nation's Victorian leader Warren Pickering told the crowd that, if elected, his party would remove energy infrastructure company VicGrid's compulsory acquisition powers for the highly controversial transmission line needed to bring wind power into the electricity grid.

"But more importantly than that, we'll abolish the renewable energy zone that we are on here tonight," Mr Pickering said.

Federal One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce will continue their Victorian tour in Gippsland tomorrow, buoyed by the party's breakthrough by-election win in Western Australia yesterday .

In a rare interview with the ABC, Pauline Hanson said that Victoria should consider new coal-fired power stations and nuclear reactors.

"We used to have coal-fired power stations that delivered the power to this nation," Ms Hanson said.

"Put in new coal-fired power stations, you can build those, but also look at nuclear as well."

Ms Hanson declined to answer how One Nation would fund new coal and nuclear projects but said renewables were failing to deliver affordable power.

Mr Pickering said expanded coal and gas projects would be funded by private investment, but could not put a figure on what that would cost.

"Back to the energy resources that made us the most abundant state in the country in the first place," Mr Pickering said.