IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? ALBO'S and BOWENS CLEVERLY COVERED UP DECEPTION.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S REALLY ABOUT - NOTHING GREEN ABOUT THIS -
IT'S ACTUALLY THE OPPOSITE. PLEASE READ.
This Is Just One Example Of 260 Meter High Destructive Net Zero Turbines
Getting Away With ‘Green’ Murder: Wind Industry Destroying
Vast Tracts of Australian Wilderness!
Vast tracts of Australia’s tropical and sub-tropical forests are being destroyed to make way for giant industrial wind turbines. Running like a spine down the east coast of Australia, the Great Dividing Range is prime real estate for renewable energy rent-seekers, keen on spearing 260m high monsters into territory that tree huggers used to hold in sacred reverence.
But that was before saving the planet meant clear-felling and bulldozing every ridgeline exposed to occasional stiff breezes and then, having literally moved mountains, turning newly denuded peaks into 6 lane highways.
Over time, however, the gullible environmentalists who were sucked in by claims about this wind farm powering tens of thousands of homes, with energy lovingly caressed from mother nature, began to wake up that all wasn’t well. Indeed, some of them have reacted with the kind of ‘we’ve been had’ fury expected of unwitting dupes.
The warm inner glow they experienced when they first cruised past a cluster of these things in their snow-white Prius, has long dissipated. Instead of blindly endorsing the wind industry, once they come face to face with the wholesale destruction of what were once well-treed mountain ranges, a growing number of them are simply horrified at what’s been done in the name of ‘saving’ the environment.
Still, a number of them simply can’t bring themselves to the point of rejecting wind and large-scale solar for the environmental and economic frauds that they are. These are the characters who spout lines about being all in favour of renewable energy, provided it’s not among the mountains, forests and wilderness where they enjoy trekking and camping with their kith and kin.
Well, as STT has pointed out once or twice, if you’re ready to concede that there is a place for these things, then fully expect them to be speared into your backyard, or favourite hiking destination, as the case may be.
Australia’s ABC is renowned as the propaganda outlet of choice for the wind and solar industries, so the article below is a little outside their usual narrative.
Sure, the original article was peppered with the usual lies and myths about the wind farm in question powering 100,000 homes, as if the turbines in question are running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; and guff about thousands of groovy ‘green’ energy jobs – the ones that disappear once the build ends and the construction gangs disperse.
So, we took the liberty of removing that kind of starry-eyed nonsense, thereby giving our readers a chance to focus on the fact that the wind industry has been getting away with ‘green’ murder, from the moment it began.
The wind farms angering renewable energy fans
ABC Mayeta Clark 2021
On the day the Mount Emerald wind farm was officially declared open, Steve Nowakowski felt a heady optimism.
It was winter 2019, the sky was clear and a slight breeze ruffled Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s hair as she spruiked Queensland’s clean, green energy future.
Steve, a renowned wilderness photographer and veteran environmental campaigner, listened in fierce agreement.
“We know we need a very quick transition to renewables and this was a part of a solution,” he says.
Steve had photographed the gigantic blades as they wound their way up the Palmerston range to a high elevation plateau, less than 100km south-west of Cairns.
His images were so striking, he had been commissioned by the energy company building the wind farm to photograph the completed project.
So after the opening ceremony, he walked to the top of Mt Emerald to get aerial shots of the site.
Steve had bushwalked through Mt Emerald’s native scrub years earlier and knew the landscape well.
Back then, it was an untouched wilderness of scraggly trees, open grasslands and rocky ridges.
Now, as he looked down, he was shocked at what he saw.
Broad roads carved pathways through the scrub, connecting large circular clearings at the base of over 50 towering wind turbines.
“I thought, ‘Geez, there’s a lot of destruction here. They’ve transformed what was a really great, pristine area … into a really industrial area’.”
He had no idea at the time that Mt Emerald would become just one of many wind and solar projects proposed, or already under construction, in this part of Queensland, some on significant tracts of unspoilt wilderness.
“It’s really out of control,” Steve says. “And no one knows about it.”
While environmental campaigners like Steve Nowakowski remain committed to renewable energy, a Background Briefing investigation has found growing community backlash over the locations chosen for projects in North Queensland.
Local conservation groups and peak climate bodies are sounding the alarm over plans to build green energy projects in forests that predate white settlement, along corridors bordering World Heritage Areas, and on properties previously targeted for conservation protection, rather than on cleared and degraded land.
If all current proposals were to be approved, an estimated 13,332 hectares of remnant vegetation would be cleared statewide. Around 90 per cent of the land clearing will be in North Queensland.
There are currently 48, large-scale renewable energy projects that have been completed, commenced or slated for Queensland, with some of the largest facilities to be built along the electricity transmission networks that traverse the Coral Sea coast.
These transmission lines provide convenient access to the national energy grid but sometimes cut through ecologically valuable land.
“We’ve got this big wall of steel coming through along the transmission line along the western side of the Great Dividing Range, hugging the western side of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area,” Steve says.
According to James Cook University adjunct professor and evolutionary biologist, Dr Tim Nevard, Far North Queensland is one of Australia’s most biodiverse regions and many of the sites chosen for wind farms are “wholly inappropriate”.
“Biodiversity is the buffer at the end of the tracks that stops the runaway train of climate change from bursting through,” Dr Nevard says.
“Destroying biodiversity in order to have greater amounts of wind energy is a complete oxymoron. It’s ridiculous. So we shouldn’t be doing it.”
‘This is massive’
A year after standing atop Mt Emerald, Steve Nowakowski received a phone call from a well-connected friend about another wind farm in the works.
It was at a place called Kaban.
Located about 48 km south of Mt Emerald, the Kaban wind farm is currently being built by the Australian arm of French energy company Neoen. It’s set to start operations in 2023.
The entire project area is 1,300 hectares and will disturb 172 hectares of ground.
Most of the site is grassy woodlands and open forest.
The project area includes 129 hectares of threatened species habitat and is home to greater gliders and magnificent broodfrogs.
In the past, some of the property was used for grazing cattle, and like National Parks in the area, parts have been used for military training.
Steve’s friend asked him to get out to the site to photograph a little-known endangered species called the magnificent broodfrog.
But Steve didn’t go.
“I had faith in the system that the frogs would be identified on the site, they’d be protected on the site,” he says.
He has since lost faith that state and federal environmental protection regimes are adequately applied to approvals for renewables projects in biodiverse areas.
A few months later, Steve’s friend called again and implored him to go to Kaban, where bulldozers were now clearing land.
The friend said local residents were distraught and it seemed important to document what was happening.
This time, Steve grabbed his camera gear and made the 90-minute trip to the Kaban site from his home in Kuranda.
When he arrived, he couldn’t believe what he saw.
“I thought, ‘Oh, this is huge. This is massive’.” There were roads and turbine pads that were like
“big shearer’s blows across the landscape”.
The massive clearing and excavation works required to create the flat pads
for the wind turbines were beginning.
A “fish skeleton” network of roads was taking shape that would soon fragment the forest and create a corridor for feral animals, weeds and disease in a once intact ecosystem, as seen in this video taken by another concerned local some time after Steve’s first visit.
As Steve was leaving Kaban, he worried about the impact of construction
on the threatened species in the area.
It’s a concern shared by ecologists and conservationists in the region who say federal environmental survey guidelines aren’t thorough enough to protect some threatened species.
One local conservation group is doing its own survey of the rare and endangered magnificent broodfrog in an attempt to cover the shortfall.
Environmental regulatory experts say Queensland’s planning guidelines for wind farm proposals are out of date and don’t take into account new technological developments.
“How do we define a reasonable impact to flora and fauna? What does that mean under the regulation?” asks Dr Madeline Taylor from the Climate Council.
“We haven’t done that appropriately in the Queensland case, at least.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Queensland Department of State Development and Planning said that state guidelines required wind farms to avoid, or minimise and mitigate, adverse impacts on the natural environment.
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This Is How Albanese and Bowen Are Destroying Our Greenery In The Name Of "Green Energy"
Destroying The Protection NATURE Gives Us. No Wonder The Weather Has Been Wild? They Have Been Stripping A Vital Area Of Our ECO-SYSTEM For Their Foolhardy GREEDY Venture. You Can't Tell Me Albanese and His Buddies Are Not Heavily Invested Into This. Many Wise People Think They Are.
We Have Elections Every 3 Years, But We Never Gave Any Party To Carve Up Multi Hectares Of Hills and Landscape....Ripping Up Our PROTECTIVE GREEN TREES and Flattening Mountains, For Their Stupid Net Zero Project That Has FAILED In Other Countries and They Had The Sense To DITCH THEM. And Who Is Going To Pay For All Theis Deforestation and Extravagant Wind Turbines? Albo and Bowen? Not Likely! How How Cheap Will This Falsely Claimed 'Green Energy' They Keep Talking About? A Heck Of A Lot More Expensive, No Doubt. We Need These JERKS OUT Of Government. Pauline Hanson Has Been Trying To Warn Us About Them and People Keep Getting Deluded By Their LIES, And Villainization Of Honest Politicians there Are So Few Of. People Of Australia, So How You Have Been DUPED By These Masqueraders? Will You Now Believe Pauline and Barnaby? They Are The One Way I Can See Of Getting This Destructive Labor Party Out - But We Need To Back Them, Instead Of Being Silly. All My Life, I Have Never Been A Party Voter - I've Always Voted For Independents - Now I'm Backing Pauline and Barnaby Because I See They Really Do Have OUR BEST INTEREST At Heart.
Just In Case You Still Believe The GRIFTERS We Have In Government, See This!
Yes, They Do Absolutely Nothing For Australians AND They Commission All This!
First The Brain Washing, Then The Disaster AND A Trillion Dollar Debt!
PS: I just checked the Update for how many Trees The Albanese Government is Deforesting in Australia. I still can't believe (comprehend) this: A whopping 135,000 Trees per day - 2,000 Hectares. This really Upsets me, it's So Criminal. Therefore, if you still want to Vote Labor, I have to say "You do Not have my permission to Visit this Website" I feel very strongly about this. I am into Caring for Nature as I am into Natural Health. Do you know that sometimes those Wind Turbines cause Fires?
I refer to myself as a People's Advocate, so honour my wishes thanks.