{"id":284897,"date":"2023-10-24T20:47:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284897"},"modified":"2023-10-24T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:47:44","slug":"wind-industrys-latest-victims-how-much-green-hypocrisy-can-a-koala-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284897","title":{"rendered":"Wind Industry\u2019s Latest Victims: How Much \u2018Green\u2019 Hypocrisy Can a Koala\u00a0Bear?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"378\" data-attachment-id=\"284907\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=284907\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?fit=1200%2C628&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,628\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?fit=723%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?resize=723%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00koalas-returning-to-wild-1584982678540.webp?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>More than two dozen renewable energy projects lodged with the Commonwealth for assessment could damage precious koala habitat, posing a delicate environmental conundrum for the Albanese government. A massive expansion of renewable energy is critical to the Albanese government meeting its upgraded climate target, while Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5bmz7\">vowed to protect endangered koala populations<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Koala defenders, we are desperately trying to find media contacts\/ journalists that would be interested in covering the issue of FNQ Koalas now at risk from poorly sited renewable developments in FNQ. If you have any contacts, could you please tag them or DM us. Thank you so much <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lO1jdx1QKG\">pic.twitter.com\/lO1jdx1QKG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rainforest Reserves Australia (@RainforestsAus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RainforestsAus\/status\/1559740458112131072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/\">STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"479\" data-attachment-id=\"284898\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=284898\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?fit=1200%2C794&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,794\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0koalas\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?fit=723%2C479&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?resize=723%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0koalas.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By trashing Australia\u2019s pristine forests, the wind industry is wiping out critical habitat for the iconic koala. And the political cult that supports it, couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent post, STT&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/2023\/09\/06\/no-more-time-to-stop-the-wind-industry-wrecking-our-pristine-forests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered the work of Dominic Legoe<\/a>, who is now part of a growing chorus of outrage about the way the Queensland and Federal governments are complicit in the destruction of Queensland\u2019s pristine dryland tropical forests. That wanton and pointless destruction has been green lighted by Federal Labor\u2019s Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as Plibersek is concerned, the koala is yet another expendable component on our way to an all wind and sun powered future, as Nick Cater reports below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"284908\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=284908\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?fit=2300%2C1293&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2300,1293\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00gettyimages-103810249\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=1536%2C863&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=2048%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00gettyimages-103810249.webp?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Labor falls for renewables crusade over koala habitats<\/strong><br>The Australian<br>Nick Cater<br>2 October 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanya Plibersek may never have another day in politics as good as the one when Clive Palmer\u2019s Central Queensland coalmine application came across her desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a Labor MP defending an inner-city seat, where the Greens come second, it was like winning the lottery. With a single stroke of a ministerial pen, she could show her loathing for Palmer and coal, profess her love for the Great Barrier Reef and koalas, and take a gratuitous swipe at the Coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got the Liberals and Nationals, who have always had a kind of \u2018let it rip\u2019 view on development that has led to the environmental crisis that this country is in at the moment,\u201d she told The Age after knocking back the mine in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you want your kids and grandkids to be able to see koalas in the wild, we have to change what we\u2019re doing because in NSW, we\u2019re on a trajectory to no koalas by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the sincerity of the Environment Minister\u2019s love for our cute national icon is open to doubt so long as she applies different standards to the renewable energy sector, which has been ripping into koala habitat without compunction since Labor announced its renewable energy targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February, a review found Plibersek\u2019s department had 140 koala-killing projects under consideration, 29 of them for wind, solar or hydro generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the koala is an endangered species in NSW and Queensland, Plibersek would be on firm ground should she choose to give the developers the same treatment she meted out to Palmer. Yet the signs are not promising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December, Plibersek approved a wind turbine development at Lotus Creek in Central Queensland, reversing a decision by her Coalition predecessor, Sussan Ley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ley ruled against the Central Queensland development in June 2020, describing it as \u201cclearly unacceptable\u201d under national environment laws, partly because the site was home to species afflicted by the previous summer\u2019s catastrophic bushfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By overturning Ley\u2019s decision, Plibersek gave the green light to the bulldozing of old-growth forest on the Clarke-Connors Range, including 341ha of known koala habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure is likely to be underestimated. Renowned natural photographer Steven Nowakowski visited the site recently and described it as \u201ckoala central\u201d. Nowakowski is hoping the authorities might revoke the approval, even after the construction site has been pegged and the bulldozers prepare to move in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPlibersek either wants to halt the extinction crisis, or she doesn\u2019t,\u201d Nowakowski told me at the weekend. \u201cBy approving these projects, she is hastening the extinction of native species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be ample opportunity for the minister to redeem herself as similar applications hit her desk. They include the highly controversial proposal to put giant turbines in the middle of an upland tropical forest at Chalumbin on the Atherton Tableland, where 844ha of koala habitat were identified in the original plan. The developer is an offshoot of Korean Zinc, the same corporation backing Lotus Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"U722638890932O5C\">Plibersek is not alone in disregarding the environmental damage caused by renewable energy. The Queensland state government recently gave the green light to the Moah Creek wind turbine development on untouched native bushland 30km west of Rockhampton, putting some 380ha of koala habitat at the mercy of the bulldozers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"U722638890932VuF\">Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk\u2019s social media pages rival Plibersek\u2019s for koala-hugging happy snaps. In 2019, Palaszczuk released a koala protection strategy promising \u201cthe strongest koala protections Queensland has ever seen\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"U722638890932QAG\">It pledged to ban the clearing of priority koala habitat areas and bring 385,606ha of koala habitat into the protected zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"U722638890932MJI\">Yet on Palaszczuk\u2019s watch, 3680ha of koala habit have been surrendered for constructing seven wind turbine plants that are either operating or under construction, according to a study by environmental charity agency Rainforest Reserves Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"U722638890932NO\">The organisation has identified another 6500ha of threatened koala habitat in proposals still on the table, bringing the total to more than 100 sqkm of threatened koala habitat in Queensland alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blatant double standards in the application of land clearance rules between agriculture and mining on the one hand and renewable energy on the other is fuelling community anger, particularly in Queensland, where the government says yes to everything to which the word \u201crenewable\u201d is attached under the controversial Code 23 assessment process. Code 23 is framed around a logical paradox as equally absurd as Joseph Heller\u2019s Catch 22: Climate change is killing koalas. Renewable energy prevents climate change. Therefore, renewable energy saves the lives of koalas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the kind of circular argument beloved by the anointed. Their vision is not constrained by the laws of physics, engineering or unintended consequences. Their arguments are steeped in morality rather than science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are compelled by the imperative to take action to solve problems regardless of whether it causes further problems or whether the problem can be solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those possessed of this vision see no contradiction between opposing the clearance of native vegetation for mining and agriculture and allowing it to construct renewable energy plants. They see no contradiction in banning the excavation of coal because of the risk of sediment in flowing into the waters around the Great Barrier Reef and allowing the excavation of rock for the construction of roads and wind turbine pads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plibersek justified the ban on Palmer\u2019s coalmine because sediment might be carried by freshwater creeks to the Great Barrier Reef, smothering the seagrass meadows that feed dugongs and provide breeding grounds for fish. Yet the Queensland government has approved Chalumbin, Kaban and Moah Creek, and other turbine developments within the Great Barrier Reef catchment. Sediment run-off caused by excavating thousands of tons of rock and dirt is considerable. Erosion and landslips are a lasting danger, particularly since we\u2019re being told to prepare for more extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are we expected to assume that is good sediment, enriched by the good intentions of those who engineered the project, in contrast to the residue soiled and degraded by Palmer\u2019s moral character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ask these questions is to forget that the consistency of process or the quality of outcomes is of little concern in virtue-seeking politics. The first and sometimes only goal is to prove that your heart is in the right place.<br><em><strong>The Australian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"284900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=284900\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?fit=940%2C627&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,627\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0trees-felled-kaban\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0trees-felled-kaban.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Koalas lose their homes to wind industry onslaught.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two dozen renewable energy projects lodged with the Commonwealth for assessment could damage precious koala habitat, posing a delicate environmental conundrum for the Albanese government. 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