Unacceptable devastation to FNQ wilderness

Foreign-owned Kaban Green Power Hub, currently under development on the Atherton Tablelands, is undertaking extensive land-clearing to facilitate the installation of 28 large-scale wind turbines. Wildlife may be relocated, maimed, injured or killed. Vital habitat is lost and fragmented, impacting the breeding cycles and behaviour of some wildlife. Feral pests like dogs, cats and pigs now have easy access to wildlife thanks to the creation of vast haulage roads created to lay the turbine footings.

The Ravenshoe region, which includes Kaban, is home to 532 species of wildlife including Koalas, Tree Kangaroos and Northern Greater Gliders. 271 species of birdlife live here.

Kaban is one of the most biodiverse regions in Australia and not an appropriate location for an industrial scale wind development. To say this project is “green” is a clear case of “greenwashing” corporate spin”.

Whilst private landowners might desire wind developments, the impact to Far North Queensland landscapes of national and global significance is too great. Wind developers have no social, cultural or environmental license to destroy our wilderness for “green” energy. Our future generations must be able to see these landscapes.

Most Australians have no idea that our wild places are being cleared for inappropriately located wind developments. They would agree that our precious biodiverse landscapes must not be sacrificed for wind farms. Once these landscapes are gone, they’re not coming back .