Conservationists fight back against enviro-wrecking renewables
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Last month, I reported that green groups had lambasted the mass rollout of wind turbines across regional Australia.
Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne labelled wind turbines “biodiversity-destroying”.
Wilderness Society national campaigns director Amelia Young also quit the group after almost 20 years, citing “intolerable … attitudes and behaviours” – and warning of a dire threat to nature posed by the renewables rollout”.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.