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.