Community & Business
8 December, 2021
Promise to meet over windfarm
FEDERAL Member for Kennedy Bob Katter says Australia’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley has promised she will meet with Ravenshoe residents who are attempting to block the construction of the Chalumbin Windfarm due to concerns over its impact on native flora and fauna.
The Environment Minister can block development projects under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and will have the final say on whether Chalumbin Windfarm progresses.
“The Minister has agreed to visit North Queensland go over the proposals which I consider to be soul-destroying projects,” Mr Katter said.
“There are applications and proposals for a discontinuous line of windfarms stretching for 230km from the back of Ingham to the back of Cairns.
“To quote one of the speakers from the recent rally in Cairns, ‘Their proposals turn our natural wonderland into an industrial wasteland.’
There is no doubt in my mind that in 20 years’ time those windmills will not be generating power.
The economics are appallingly bad.” There is no date yet as to when the Minister will visit.
