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Photos: Lotus Creek Wind Farm site, Connors Ranges, coastal range of Central Queensland
Credit: Steven Nowakowski · March 15, 2025 · linkedin.com ~~
Here are some very recent photos of what is happening at the Lotus Creek Wind Farm site, Connors Ranges, coastal range of Central Queensland.
This project has just commenced and will consist of 46 wind towers. The images here show clearing for the first 4 wind towers. The energy provided by this development will generate 0.47% of Queensland electricity requirements … sometimes (based on 30% capacity factor) … and was bought off the plan by state Labor for $1.3 billion from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
The project is situated on the magnificent Connors Range at 550m elevation directly west of the coastal community of St. Lawrence. The Connors Ranges are high elevation intact refugia forests containing some of the best koala and Greater Glider populations left in Queensland. This will adjoin the nearby Clarke Creek Wind Farm which stretches the full length of the Broadsound Range with an additional 2,000ha being cleared there now.
101 koalas and 138 greater gliders were found in project area. The koalas on the Connors Range were recently listed as having some of the best genetic koala diversity in Australia.
957 Cycas terryana are to be cleared (Cycad species only described in 2011 and only found at three locations along the Connors and Broadsound Ranges).
48 Sannantha brachypoda are to be cleared
No sediment or erosion controls along ridge lines with boulders pushed over edges. No idea what impact will be on amphibians? No idea what impact low frequency sound will play in masking mating calls of mammals such as koalas and amphibians?
The offsets are a scam and two parcels of land either side of the haulage roads are the offsets.
This should be Queensland’s great Koala National Park. Instead, being turned into industrial energy production wasteland.
Is this the price we need to pay for climate action through the destruction of what is left of our high elevation refugia forests? This is just the start of what is proposed!
Rainforest Reserves Australia have now mapped 41,000 wind towers proposed across Australia with many located in what is left of our intact high elevation refugia forests of Queensland.
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