{"id":332849,"date":"2024-06-14T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332849"},"modified":"2024-06-14T19:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:10:40","slug":"aussie-green-insurrection-build-coal-plants-to-save-the-koalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332849","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Green Insurrection: Build Coal Plants to Save the Koalas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\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

\u201cWe can\u2019t destroy biodiversity to save the planet.\u201d \u2013 local greens teaming up with hardline conservatives to block new wind farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The anti-windfarm \u2018odd couple\u2019 joining forces to fight the renewable energy projects Australia\u2019s already failing to build<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Corners<\/a> \/  By Angus Grigg<\/a>, Mary Fallon<\/a> and Maddy King<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 5:23amMonday 10 Jun 2024 at 5:23am, updated Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 11:22pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep in coal country, a lifelong environmentalist and one-time Greens candidate is feeling the applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Thursday night at a Gladstone pub and Steven Nowakowski has won over sceptical locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His message is a simple one; he believes a wave of new windfarm developments threatens to smash hilltops and turn koala habitat into \u201cindustrial zones\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The green movement, he says, are in \u201cla-la land\u201d over windfarms, a comment that draws nods and knowing smiles from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But its only when one local suggests building a new coal-fired power station does the crowd erupt in spontaneous applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the front line of Australia\u2019s latest climate war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowakowski, a nature lover who says he\u2019s been arrested fighting for forests, shares the stage with ultra-conservative federal MP Colin Boyce, a man who claims burning fossil fuels creates \u201cplant food\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re an odd couple,\u201d Nowakowski admits. \u201cI shake my head in disbelief. I cannot believe that I\u2019m in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re going down the wrong path,\u201d he says. \u201cWe can\u2019t destroy biodiversity to save the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-06-10\/renewable-energy-projects-wind-farm-face-opposition-four-corners\/103951940<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I applaud Steven Nowakowski\u2019s courage breaking ranks with his friends, and standing up for what he believes \u2013 genuine measures to protect nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colossal wilderness destruction wrought in the name of renewable energy was always going to be an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody who genuinely cares about the environment can see a devastated concrete construction zone which was once a protected wilderness, stretching as far as the eye can see, and say \u201csee, we saved nature\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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