More massive wind towers have been planned by the environmental vandals of the Queensland Labor Party to be built right alongside the iconic and unique Porcupine Gorge National Park in the Central West.
This unwanted and unnecessary project will forever alter the surrounding, majestic landscape of the gorge and become another festering eyesore that will kill thousands of Wedgetail Eagles and other native birds which breed in the area an hour north of the historic township of Hughenden which is bisected by the beautiful Flinders River.
A vast spider web of transmission lines will intersect hundreds of klm’s of beautiful black soil downs country surrounding Hughenden which is recognised as some of the state’s best cattle and sheep grazing country which remains in a similar state to when the first explorers stepped foot there. These massive power line towers will effectively disfigure and ruin some of the best livestock production properties in Australia as well as the amenity of this beautiful gorge.
Porcupine Gorge is known as a sacred site for local Aboriginal and European stockmen with over 150 years of occupation.
There are only three days left to lodge a submission, so it would seem the ALP is continuing with its subversive tactics when it comes to public opinion.
Comments are invited https://epbcpublicportal.awe.gov.au/open-for-comments/project-decision/?id=9cde4f9a-0816-ee11-9cbd-000d3a794100 but only ‘on whether the proposed action within a referral is a ‘controlled action’. A ‘controlled action’ is an action that the minister decides has, will have, or is likely to have, a significant impact on a protected matter.
A ‘controlled action’ is assessed further before the Environment minister decides whether to approve it. Terms are described in the Glossary of terms for regulatory activities under the EPBC Act – DCCEEW.
Not sure what this means but it doesn’t sound like they want real input and only 3 days left to respond Table 1-1 Key Generation and Turbine Specifications Feature Statistic Estimated Proposed development generation capacity 1,400 MW *
Turbine electrical output 6 MW-8 MW
Number of WTGs Up to 175, Hub height Up to 200 m
Tip height** Up to 300 m
Rotor diameter** Up to 200 m
Theoretical capacity 1.4 GW, effective production ~30%?
Or 0.4 GW from an area roughly 20 km squared =~ 400 sq km
In comparison a gas-fired power station of 1.4 GW would produce 1 GW and cover a couple of sq km of land and would be sited close to where the power will be used.
And when the wind farm has reached its end of life in say 30 years – what then?
From Howard Dewhirst
Time to sabotage wind generators, 5G towers and UN planes cloud seeding!
In regards to sustainable energy it should be suggested we throw away solar panels and wind farms, oil & gas production facilities, et all and plug everything into the volumes of hot air coming from unserviceable but treasonous politicians we keep in parliament. $cience just need to find a way how to “funnel” the energy of living human waste and space into the power plugs of common homes and businesses.
Well stated Pat from Vic
Gas is cheap + it’s efficient too.
These CRIMINALS don’t like us to be self sufficient, nor being independent, that’s for sure!!
We will say it again how about an article about this? We are not electrical engineers. Editor
The article mentions output which is the nameplate data. They do not produce that data.
The author does not talk about the wind turbines not being able to function.
They cannot and do not produce the essential and legally required 50 hertz sinusoidal waveform energy which our homes, factories and farms are designed for.
Come on Cairns News come out of your corner fighting.
I do have correspondence with AEMO and as yet no reply.
Another question is how is that energy got from wilderness areas to where it is needed.
And, I believe there is no contract or obligation to remove the WTs at the end of their life.
Pat from Vic
Sure, we all KNOW this – but using ABUNDANT, CHEAP, RELIABLE and MATURE energy technologies like gas, coal, and even nuclear, doesn’t meet the genocidal baby-eating Luciferian Globalist agenda to F*CKING KILL US ALL OFF.
Amen.
At least some of us are aware of what their REAL agenda is all about, Pat.
Just like the BS fake “vaccine” bioweapons which were contracted by the US Department of Defence – which is on the public record, it’s no secret AT ALL – and yet Australia’s fake “governments” and Globalist-owned corporations KEEP PUSHING this genocidal BS…
… so it is with all the “renewable energy” BS which the “climate change” zeolots and the Globalist-owned stooges in our fake “governments” keep right on shoving down our throats – DESPITE the public knowledge that these technologies are IMMATURE, UNRELIABLE, INSUFFICIENT and moreover cost WAY more energy to manufacture than they can possibly produce during their operational life.
AND we all KNOW that CO2 doesn’t CAUSE any climate variation, because it FOLLOWS it, and BTW it’s also absolutely NECESSARY for ALL LIFE on Earth.
Granted the “climate change” cult is WAY too brainwashed and WAY too stupid to grasp these basic facts – and anyway, there’s just too much money to be made MILKING it.
Sure, we all KNOW this – but using ABUNDANT, CHEAP, RELIABLE and MATURE energy technologies like gas, coal, and even nuclear, doesn’t meet the genocidal baby-eating Luciferian Globalist agenda to F*CKING KILL US ALL OFF.
Which is the principle reason about a hundred thousand treasonous paid-off mass-murdering genocidal baby-eating Australian arseholes will be swinging from lamp posts in the not too distant future, along with their private armies of shit-for-brains sadistic hired mercenary Gestapo thugs impersonating “police” – right after the Fat Lady clears her throat and finally starts singing.
Reminds me of Anna Bligh and her $4,000,000,000 salt water to fresh conversion fiasco still in mothballs. Labor has a way with things. There’s the Philippine Nuclear power station still in mothballs I see too, blackouts common in the south and hydro is the only allowed means of power generation apparently.
Is3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Job12:24 He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them stagger in a pathless wilderness. They grope in the dark without a light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man. Psalm107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
BTW, whenever I click the like star for someone’s post, the star disappears but the like is never recorded.
When are people going to wake up to this false claim that wing farms are necessary ?
Bring back coal ?
If not why not ?
Research nuclear energy ?
Look at what alternative energy was taken from us back in early 1900’s
When are people in these areas going to erect try and stop these bastards or erect and man barricades to prevent entry …!!!
Wind farms are not environmentally safe and the amount of oil used to operate each one should sound alarm bells
Is it not til the last native habitat is removed by these foreign operators erecting so called safe energy sources in our country, will we realise it is too late…..!!!
Stop erection if these wind farms before they start