CRAIG McIntosh's Tragowel property will have eight to 10km of transmission line and towers.

"More or less, a group of us out here has been all for it and in the middle is the group against it, but they can do what they want to do," he said.

"My family has been out here a long time and when the 220kv line came through, we all switched off generators.

"It was a real advancement in the area and I ...