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\u00a0brood frog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laws protecting Koalas and \u201cthe magnificent brood frog\u201d have prevented a renewable energy company from clearing 500 acres<\/s> 500 hectares of native vegetation in the Australian tropics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal environmental laws \u2018single biggest challenge\u2019 for delivering renewable energy projects in Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By national regional affairs reporter Jane Norman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In far north Queensland, traditional owners, clean energy developers and conservationists had spent three long years sweating on this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depending on which side you believed, this development would either supply 150,000 homes with clean, green energy or destroy the forest habitat of threatened native species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late on Friday, the wait was finally over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An email from Ark Energy landed in inboxes, announcing the company had \u201cwithdrawn the Wooroora Station Wind Farm proposal from the federal environmental assessment process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the proposed project was dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Korean-owned developer had planned to clear more than 500 hectares of native vegetation next to the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, home to animals including the koala and magnificent brood frog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-04-22\/environmental-laws-biggest-challenge-for-clean-energy-developers\/103750830<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the only wind farm in trouble in Australia\u2019s far north, WUWT recently reported on the Aboriginal campaign to block the Chalumbin wind farm<\/a>, which would have despoiled part of the beautiful Australian Atherton Tableland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboriginals are also playing their in other places to derail the green revolution, by demanding fair compensation from any infrastructure which intrudes onto their sacred lands.<\/a> All those empty looking deserts where entrepreneurs hoped to install vast solar arrays are actually full of protected Aboriginal sites and places of special cultural and spiritual significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let\u2019s not forget farmers and rural people<\/a>, who have spooked renewable developers with their ferocious campaign to prevent power lines from crossing their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think when the dust settles we\u2019ll all owe a vote of thanks to all of these groups, for their determined effort to stop greens from ruining the landscape with their ugly mechanical monstrosities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have to stop these green developers from exploiting the wilderness.<\/strong> The lesson is, if you don\u2019t want a beautiful part of your landscape to be despoiled by greens, and you can\u2019t find a local indigenous group who are prepared to fight for their sacred claims, nesting boxes for rare and endangered species and perhaps a few livestream webcams are your next best line of defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update (EW): Click here<\/a> to see Ark Energy\u2019s description of Wooroora Station, along with a map showing the location \u2013 right in the middle of one of the most beautiful sections of the Atherton Tablelands. Ark Energy claims to have the support of locals for their project.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correction (EW): 500 hectares, not 500 acres (h\/t\u00a0Tombstone Gabby<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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