Wind turbines and solar panels have become increasingly common sights across inland Australia, and many more are on the way under ambitious Federal and State Government plans to lift the percentage of electricity generated from renewable energy.
Some rural landholders are cheering the developments on and welcoming the diversified incomes they provide, while others are locking gates and raising concerns about impacts on agricultural, environmental, economic and community grounds.
Helping land owners to understand major issues to consider when interacting with renewable energy project proponents, delving into rural community attitudes to wind and solar developments and shining a light on the broader implications for planning, policy, regional economic development and food security, will be the focus of a Rural Press Club of Queensland panel discussion in March.
The panel will feature:
Katie-Ann Mulder, Kate Swain, Jo Sheppard and Brent Finlay
- Brent Finlay, a former AgForce and National Farmers Federation president who is hosting a wind development on his Traprock district livestock property;
- Katie Anne-Mulder, the CEO and founding member of the Queensland Renewable Energy Council, and
- Kate Swain a Partner from McCullough Robertson who specialises in approval processes and has worked on behalf of both landholders and project proponents.
- Jo Sheppard, our moderator, is the CEO of Queensland Farmers’ Federation and has, in partnership with the Queensland Government, prepared the Queensland Renewable Energy Landholder Toolkit.
The forum is intended to provide a balanced, timely and up-to-date discussion of the many issues facing rural landholders as the renewable energy “rush” gains pace in Queensland.
To secure individual tickets or a table of 10 this event click ‘register to attend’ below:
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Thursday 14 March 2024
12pm – 2.00pm Tattersalls Club, Queen Street Brisbane Monday 11 March 2024 Business attire |
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John below says it right. All virtue-signalling crap, that doesn’t work, except to shovel our money and children’s future into the hands of Twiggy and Turnbull et al. The sunk energy and materials required to manufacture something that works only 20-30% of the time, then replace it 3 times over the life of one thermal power plant, make wind and solar power far more environmentally destructive, locally and internationally, than burning the fossil fuel directly to produce power. They are counterproductive to the stated aim – like most of GovCo policy these last few years.
Is not most of this energy, electricity, needed along that strip of land between the Great Divide and the beaches? You know where most of the voters come from, those who tell us how we should care for our environment.
If so why not get their power generated in their back yard? Put solar panels all over their concrete mazes, and wind generators decorating their high rises. No transmission lines required. It all happens where it is needed.
In the bush we get prosecuted for trying to make our land more productive, while along that strip of eastern Australia clears pristine forestry with gay abandon, all in the name of urban sprawl.
Now they want to do the same on our side!!
Wonder how our flatulating cows of the bush add up against the emissions of the concrete jungles? If the problem is there, well fix it there!!
Did our Labor government, voted in from that urban sprawl, not just allow half a million immigrants into our country? All this when we have housing, water, electricity, road and numerous other infrastructure deficiencies!!
Since SEPP46 we have allowed the mob from over the Great Divide to tell us how to care for our environment.
Its way gone time for the farmers, who are the best custodians of our environment as our very existence depends on it, declare enough is enough of having to succumb to the hypocrisy of the green elite, sitting behind their desks, or sipping their lattes while reading the SMH, legislate our rights away.
Tractors on highways seem to be effective in making European farmers be noticed.
I do accept that there are good farming communities on that side as well, but you know what I mean, and anyway they are being pushed out by this same sprawl.