What do we want?

To protect what’s left.

Queensland’s biodiverse landscapes are being sacrificed to various private interests, including multinational renewable “green” energy corporations. No one is speaking up about it.

We need to protect the intact landscapes we have left.

We want:

to stop tax-payer subsidies for large scale wind and solar developments.
the EPBC legislation strengthened to ensure any Listed Vulnerable or Endangered wildlife is not impacted by inappropriate development.
a Moratorium on all wind and solar developments to allow time for QLD State QREZ legislation to be changed to protect our landscapes and agricultural land.
Federal legislation introduced to ensure that all existing, under-development and proposed Australian wind farms are required to deploy up-to-date technology to mitigate bat and bird deaths.
Wind farm proponents to pay a bond to ensure there are funds to support landscape clean-up after operations have ceased. These costs should not be borne by Australians or the land host.
Our government to be accountable for their environmental responsibilities.
Independent Ecological Assessments (IEAs) are currently undertaken by energy proponents. This is a compromised process. We want genuinely independant and extensive ecological surveys undertaken by CSIRO or Government on at-risk landscapes.
We have been exploring the challenges and successes of other technologies in lowering emissions by attending a series of lectures by Environmental scientist Pamela Jones in Atherton, Far North Queensland.
We would like mainstream Australians to start thinking about energy alternatives. Either way, we cannot continue down the path of unquestioned energy growth. There is an aspect of "will we get to net zero and still destroy the planet?".
Please see “An Open Letter to Conservationists” to see scientists who support deploying nuclear energy for the sake of stopping climate warming and conservation of the environment and biodiversity.
Watch a presentation on energy by Pamela here:

MORATORIUM ON THE PROPOSED LARGE INDUSTRIAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHEMES AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING CHANGE OF MATERIAL USE TO THE LAND

We are seeking a moratorium on all new and planned large-scale industrial energy projects that are planned to be installed on any Queensland landscapes containing EPBC listed flora and fauna as well as all agricultural land.

We believe it is time for an intelligent, informed national discussion around the energy that has the lowest spatial footprint.

Please note some of our specific concerns regarding renewable energy rollout:

1. Queensland is a world leader in land clearing. There is no consideration in QREZ policy of cumulative ecological impacts of renewable developments.

2. Wildlife is seen as expendable in the renewable energy transition.

3. Renewable energy developments require vast expanses of land to be built on.The public won’t be privy to the devastation or witness the loss of life.

4. The deadline of 2030 for the state of QLD’s energy supply to be generated from 50% renewable sources now puts a time pressure on approvals to be hastily granted.

5. The EPBC Act has proven to be ineffective in protecting native flora and fauna.

6. Industrial scale renewable developments are often implemented by foreign owned corporations – this means our hard-earned money goes offshore to line their pockets.

7. Renewable energy developments offer little long-term employment. Workers construct the renewable development and find themselves jobless once operation commences.

8. Large scale industrial renewable energy schemes create division in small communities.

9. Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal expertise and leadership should be embedded in decision-making frameworks around every renewable energy development.

10. Numerous large scale renewable developments are planned for our region over the next ten years. Already we are witnessing the destruction of Kaban, FNQ for a renewable wind development.

11. Unfortunately, climate change exigencies are not addressed by the scaling up of renewable developments – we argue habitat loss and wildlife extinction will impede any impact renewable electricity may play in halting climate change.

Why we stand for the conservation of our intact landscapes:

· Indigenous connection to Country is sacred and must be honoured.

· Habitat / wilderness loss is Australia’s number one cause of species extinction[i].

· Wilderness conservation ensures the water cycle, soil and delicate ecologies are kept intact.

· Wilderness provides biological diversity and cross-linked biotopes increase survival chances for migratory species.

· Healthy wilderness has a balancing effect on extreme weather patterns and permanently reduces carbon dioxide.

· Wilderness is natural capital. The people of Australia love our wilderness: it is inspiring and provides spiritual succour. It is our urgent responsibility to protect the wilderness we have left.