Can't trim a tree, can't chop down a tree. Yet thousands of acres can be cleared to put in roads and erect unsightly wind towers or cover acres of good country for glass panels that may keep the lights on for a few minutes. How absolutely stupid have we become? A few people making a big dollar, most on taxpayers' money.

The ABC 4 Corners last Monday evening showed numbers of massive wind turbines being set up within public forest in SE Queensland. One issue not covered was the high risk of bushfires in the area - which could destroy many turbines. Has this been addressed in any State for that matter?

The show was pretty well balanced I thought - unusual for the ABC on a 'climate change' issue! There clearly is a significant groundswell of opposition to wind 'farms' in many regional areas, incl off-shore 'farms'. I agree with those opposing the wind 'farms'.

ttbn is spot on re pollies.
Here is Albo & Bowen insisting that Dutton tell them where the nukes will go.
All that question does is illustrate how ignorant they are on the subject.
No one can answer that question until a program of installing nuclear
power station has had the amount of money available and the output of
the reactor stations is known, Such questions as;
How many will be Small Modular, how many will be large stations and
how big will they be ?
Obviously the best place for a large station is where the destroyed
coal stations were located as the major transmission lines are in
place and have the capacity to transmit very high power levels and
the high power switch yards are already in place.
It would be a waste of facilities to put low power SMRs in that place.
SMRs could be placed along existing transmission lines especially
near growing regional areas.
However the answers to these questions are not known to politicians or
public servants. Only Power System Engineers who have all the figures
available on current flows for time of day etc can work out what
should go where. If the pollies insisted they go where they say
trillions of dollars could be wasted.

We are now threatened with a polly driven network.