Massive environmental damage was planned for the Chalumbin project site. The project has been cut in half and around 40 wind generators have been proposed for a new site on nearby private property. Above is a wind generator column for a Victoria wind farm
The proposed, massive Chalumbin wind generator project at Ravenshoe in Far North Queensland has been rejected on environmental grounds.
Senator Malcolm Roberts said the rejection called the entire net-zero transition and other projects into question:
“Common sense has prevailed – You can’t save the environment by destroying thousands of hectares of forests as wind and solar projects will,” Senator Roberts said.
“30,000 hectares of remnant forest will still be cleared across 52 wind farms on the Great Dividing Range in Queensland under current proposals.”
Destructive projects like the Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro in prime platypus habitat at Eungella must be ruled out.
Projects like Smokey Creek Solar that were quietly approved against local protests because they didn’t have a talented nature photographer like Steven Nowakowski to tell their story must be revisited and put through the full environmental assessment.
“Communities throughout Queensland are facing similar, environment-destroying proposals. Minister Plibersek must subject these to the full environmental assessment where they will undoubtedly fail as Chalumbin has.
“The net-zero plan for wind and solar cannot supply our energy needs and will destroy the nature Queenslanders love the most.
“The government must stop killing the environment while claiming they’re saving it,” he concluded.
