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Keep Kalbarri Beautiful activists to hold anti-wind turbine rally calling for stop to heavy industrialisation
Credit: Jessica Moroney, Geraldton Guardian · Fri, 14 June 2024 · thewest.com.au ~~
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Activists campaigning to stop heavy industrialisation developing in a small coastal Mid West town are planning a weekend rally as the community grapples with two separate wind farm proposals.
Members of the Keep Kalbarri Beautiful movement are inviting the community to rally at 10am on Sunday at Sally’s Tree on the foreshore, to protest against plans for heavy industrialisation.
Keep Kalbarri Beautiful committee members Raina Robinson, Shandi Baldwin, Wendy Lamb, Ishara Coulthard, Philippa Saunders and Mick McIntyre. Credit: Supplied
One proposed venture is the Murchison Green Hydrogen (MGH) project, which compromises 550 wind turbines, up to 10,000ha of solar panel arrays and associated production plants and storage.
It will be based near the Murchison House Station, 13km northeast of Kalbarri, and can be seen from tourism destinations, such as the national park and Kalbarri Skywalk.
Another project in the works is the Midwest Offshore Wind Farm, which includes up to 200 wind turbines and six substations running 15km to 70km offshore.
Action group co-founder Mick McIntyre said the rally aimed to bring attention to large-scale industrialisation plans in country towns, and encourage other regional communities facing a similar future.
“If we all stick together we can make a difference. Moving forward for us will be too for them to pack up their bags and go somewhere else,” he said.
“We want to protect the face of Kalbarri. We don’t want to turn it into an industrial landscape that people aren’t going to travel to. And protect the professional fishing, the whales, I think we have a really strong argument otherwise I wouldn’t be a part of it.
“If we can make enough noise for people to listen to us, then we’ll be able to keep it at bay. But we know that these things are going to keep coming up and that’s just the way the world is.”
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