Some wind farm projects planned in Queensland expect to euthanise animals that get in the way of their land clearing and building of giant wind towers, including hitting koalas with a “hard, sharp blow to the base of the back of the skull.”
Politicians including Liberal MP Michelle Landry and Nationals MP Keith Pitt recently raised the alarm about what is happening to koalas and other endangered animals in their native habitats in Queensland.
It is to be carried out with a blunt metal or heavy wooden bar such as a sledgehammer or crowbar.
If there is uncertainty, it will be followed by a secondary method of euthanasia such as “cervical dislocation, and decapitation.”
Mr. Pitt, a former government minister for Resources and Water, told the radio station 2GB, “This is happening right now. When they’re injured, that’s how they deal with it.”
As part of this renewable energy project, 1,513 hectares of koala habitat will also need to be destroyed.
Silence From Advocates
The Epoch Times has contacted the Australian Greens party, which introduced a Save the Koala Bill into the Federal Parliament prohibiting the destruction of koala habitat, but did not get a response by the time of publication.Shane Knuth from Katter’s Australia Party provided an insightful viewpoint.
However, he said that there was always pushback if you wanted to build dams to increase water supply or irrigation to grow food.
“Governments continue to knock back any new water project proposed while at the same time, wind farms are given a free pass to destroy natural habitat,” he said.
He said that the government’s 50 percent renewable target by 2030 is a “fantasy” and will destroy forests and threaten endangered species.
The Australian government is spending up to $1.5 trillion (US$974 billion) to reach net zero by 2030, which is almost 30 times more than what is spent on defence every year.
