HELP RELOCATE PROPOSED WINDFARM
Save Our Woodlands are NOT against renewable energy BUT the Yarrowyck/Booralong area is a precious environmental resource with high biodiversity.
It is an important habitat for the critically endangered regent honeyeater, it is part of the migratory route of swift parrots and critical habitat for the endangered koala.
Surely a more suitable area can be found instead of at Yarrowyck and Booralong as proposed by EDF Renewables.
WE ARE NOT AGAINST RENEWABLE ENERGY
AGAIN, Save Our Woodlands are not against renewable energy, but we DO NOT want windfarms situated where they will destroy our endangered woodlands.
85% of woodlands in NSW have been wiped out, we need to preserve what we have left — not bulldoze it away.
There are over 150 endangered and vulnerable species indigenous to our woodlands including the Regent Honey Eater, Swift parrot and threatened Koala do we need to lose any more of their habitat?
WE SUPPORT WINDFARMS IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS
There are thousands of hectares of bare hills in the Uralla shire which could support windfarms without destroying Yarrowyck woodlands.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING MONEY TO PROTECT HABITATS YET…
Currently, our government is spending large amounts of money preserving areas of Koala habitat, while it is allowing a wind farm, which will destroy the same habitat.
One has to wonder about the thinking patterns of the “powers that be.”
Windfarms need large areas of cleared ground just to manipulate the 80-metre blades into position, they also need extensive road works, a concrete manufacturing plant and huge towers to transport power back to the grid.
The idea that the “footprint” of a wind turbine is eight metres is slightly rash with the truth. [Learn more here.]
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
JOIN US IN ASKING THAT ANOTHER LOCATION BE CONSIDERED…
Click here to contact the Prime Minister of Australia:
Contact your local State member:
The Honourable Adam Marshall MP
northerntablelands@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Telephone: (02) 6772 5552
Contact your Federal member:
The Honourable Barnaby Joyce MP
https://barnabyjoyce.com.au/contact
Toll Free telephone: 1300301 839
Contact the Federal Minister for the Environment:
The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP
minister.plibersek@dcceew.gov.au
Telephone: (02) 9379 0700
Contact the State Minister for the Environment:
The Hon. James Griffin MP
manly@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Telephone: (02) 9976 2773
Contact the Uralla Shire Council and its representatives:
Send an email to
council@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Mayor Robert Bell
Telephone 0434 244 774
Email mayor@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Robert Crouch
Deputy Mayor
Telephone 0428 616 885
E mail rcrouch@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Tim Bower Councillor
Telephone 0421 704 598
Email tbower@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Sarah Burrows
Telephone 0428 055 860
Email sburrows@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Leanne Doran
Telephone 0488 559 928
Email ldoran@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Bruce McMullen
Telephone 0419 013 560
Email bmcmullen@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Tom O'Connor
Telephone 0460 649 700
Email TPOconnor@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Lone Petrov
Telephone 0427 784 760
Email lpetrov@uralla.nsw.gov.au
Councillor Tara Toomey
Telephone 0434 408 163
Email ttoomey@uralla.nsw.gov.au
SAMPLE LETTER | TALKING POINTS
IF you need help with what to write or what to say when calling (or leaving a voice mail).
Please feel free to copy and paste the following as is, or edit and add to it.
Feel free to use this URL in your email: saveourwoodlands.org/windfarms
Dear _______________________,
I/We respectively wish to register our opposition to the wind farm at Yarrowyck and Booralong proposed by EDF Renewables.
I/We are not against renewable energy BUT the Yarrowyck/ Booralong area is a precious environmental resource with high biodiversity and is home to the critically endangered regent honeyeater, swift parrot on their migratory routes and the endangered koala.
Windfarms kill both birds and bats which do not recognise that the blades are turning, and large areas of woodland will have to be destroyed to accommodate the wind turbines.
There are thousands of hectares of bare hills in the Uralla shire which could support windfarms without destroying Yarrowyck woodlands.
We have already destroyed 85% of the woodlands in NSW -- now it is time to stop and consider if we want to live in a desert.
There is no point in trying to save the planet with renewable energy while destroying the environment.
Respectfully,
Include your full name,
mailing address and
phone number.
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People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate of any country in the world.
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