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<\/p>\nConservationist Steven Nowakowski has shared new aerial footage of the desolation being carried out by the Albanese government to make way for renewable projects in regional Queensland.<\/p>\n
The Lotus Creek Wind Farm in the central Queensland renewable energy zone (REZ), located between Mackay and Rockhampton in the Great Dividing Range, where bulldozers are currently uprooting trees and flattening mountains, is just the \u201ctip of the iceberg\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News Australia, Nowakowski said the government\u2019s pursuit of net zero emissions through relentless solar and wind projects was the \u201cbiggest policy failure in our lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Nowakowski provided aerial footage of the ongoing development.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the climate issue is such a big issue, you’d think the solution is by keeping trees in the ground, keeping wilderness intact, keeping biodiversity intact,\u201d he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what we’re seeing is the exact opposite. We are blasting out mountains left, right and centre, right down in the Great Dividing Range of Queensland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat scares me and many others that know what’s going on is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. You know, where there’s another, well over 5,000 wind towers proposed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Nowakowski said the footage showed mountains in the distance which were being \u201cflattened right now, as we speak\u201d.<\/p>\n
The professional photographer said that what scares him most was that there was \u201cno end point\u201d as trying to \u201celectrify everything is completely impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re going to destroy the environment and destroy our economy, destroy manufacturing, and everything to try to achieve what the government is trying to achieve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ll go as far as to say, this is the biggest policy failure of our lifetime. Yeah, it’s actually terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for CS Energy, which acquired Lotus Creek Wind Farm in 2024, told SkyNews.com.au that “extensive work” had been undertaken at the site to “avoid and minimise” the clearing of land.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said the project had to abide by strict control measures to minimise the impacts on biodiversity, including setting aside an offset area of approximately 4,500 hectares – more than 10 times the project’s clearing footprint to be protected for conservation.<\/p>\n
“Under the project\u2019s environmental approval, no more than 399.1 hectares can be cleared within the approved development footprint,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“To ensure that construction stays within the approved clearing footprint, the project is using controls such as on-site surveys, GPS tracking on machinery onsite, physical and GPS flagging of protected areas and satellite imagery.<\/p>\n
“The project is being constructed on privately-owned cattle grazing land and has been designed to minimise the impact to local flora and fauna by avoiding areas of high conservation significance.”<\/p>\n
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