The Greens have again called for the pilitika\/Robbins Island wind farm project to be abandoned due to its numerous environmental red flags. This includes fresh concerns raised by the Federal Environmental Department at Senate Estimates this week about the proponents failure to produce information on managing risks to one of lutruwita\/Tasmania\u2019s last Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) free habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pilitika\/Robbins Island wind farm project would see hundreds of hectares of critical Tasmanian devil habitat cleared, adjacent to where the deadly DFTD was recently detected, and where hundreds of devils from this population have been killed on roads in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerns about this project\u2019s impact on the Tasmanian devil follow a bilateral federal-state \u00adEPA assessment that ruled the windfarm must shut for five months each year to avoid impacting migrating orange bellied parrots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens support a rapid renewable energy transition, but it would be a cruel irony if Australia\u2019s renewable energy projects come at the expense of our threatened and iconic species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need to have confidence that wind farms \u2013 like any energy project \u2013 don\u2019t damage the environment, and the fact is the pilitika\/Robbins Island wind farm project hasn\u2019t been able to prove that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe federal government\u2019s oversight of the pilitika\/Robbins Island wind farm is going to be a real test on how serious it is about reaching its \u2018zero new extinction\u2019 target and implementing strong environmental laws that actually protect critical habitat and wildlife instead of relying on dodgy offsetting schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTassie devils are only just clawing their way back from the horrendous DFTD that wiped out 95% of the species\u2019 population, while also battling a myriad of other pressures including land clearing, mining, logging, and becoming roadkill.\u00a0Needless to say, a massive industrial wind farm on pilitika\/Robbins Island is only going to add unacceptable pressure to the plight of the Tasmanian devil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have again called for the pilitika\/Robbins Island wind farm project to be abandoned due to its numerous environmental red flags. This includes fresh concerns raised by the Federal Environmental Department at Senate Estimates this week about the proponents failure to produce information on managing risks to one of lutruwita\/Tasmania\u2019s last Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) free habitats. The pilitika\/Robbins Island … Continue reading “PILITIKA\/ROBBINS ISLAND WIND FARM MUST BE ABANDONED”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21269,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions\/21269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}