Communication breakdown The Community Engagement Review into the renewable energy sector by the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner found 92 per cent dissatisfaction with how project developers engaged the local community.

It pointed to poor practices in the sector, sparking negative experiences and community pushback.

There is a notable tension between community engagement efforts and the rigid policy frameworks that shape renewable energy development.

It can mean communities are consulted, but their input is sidelined because of policy restrictions and that leads to distrust and perceptions of an unfair or tokenistic process.

Genuine community fears can also be exploited by vested interests and misinformation actors promoting questionable claims to fuel community resistance and backlash.

Never noticed this interactive heat map on the CC website before. Could be a good referral tool if you need to look up an example quickly.

Many respondents said their views could shift if they saw real, meaningful action – especially from governments and big business. Some wanted proof that Australia is taking climate change seriously. Others said action would offer hope or reduce their anxiety.

Even some sceptical respondents said coordinated, global action might persuade them

This part of the research is actually quite interesting. Its the bandwagon effect, people concluding, "everyones heading that way, must be for a reason."

Its all the more reason to keep the pressure against the propaganda from the likes of Koch, Rhinehart or Palmer, et al.

You never know, the mass of action from others could convince these people, with their deep vested interests, of their own folly.

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The last of 75 turbines has been installed at the biggest wind project yet built in South Australia which will help edge the state closer to its 2027 target of reaching 100 per cent net renewables.

The 412 megawatt Goyder South wind project, near Burra, is being built by Neoen Australia and is also the largest wind project in its 10 GW of renewable energy projects currently operating, under construction or in development.

The Goyder renewable energy zone is expected to be one of the biggest renewable energy hubs in the world, combining multiple gigawatts of wind, solar and battery storage – with the final capacity likely to depend on the success of new green industries in the state, and its green hydrogen prospects.

The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.

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Interesting example of how drone technology is being used to increase data collection in environmental surveying.

Not sure what the thing is with the federal LNP seat? Qld just voted in a majority LNP state Government and kicked the few Greens that were in parliament, safe to say they don't really give a care about the reef, like most of Australia and most of the world.

Ironically the new QLD LNP government has been dealing non stop with climate change enhanced disasters since they came to power, Leopards literally eating voters faces I guess ?

The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its second bleaching event in as many years, with the marine park authority reporting corals in distress due to an underwater heatwave stretching 1300 kilometres from Townsville to Cooktown.

Mass coral bleaching has occurred on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024 and now 2025

Sobering to remember the first every recorded mass bleaching was only back in 1998, nothing beore that

The nation has today kicked off a big environmental day in style!

With the International Day of Forests rolling around, Australia has looked to celebrate the occasion in trademark fashion.

With native forest logging still taking place across the Eastern Seaboard and Tassy, Australia is getting into the spirit of the day by seeing if national icon Blinky Bill can still outrun a bulldozer and wood chipper.

“We think it’s the perfect way to celebrate the day,” said a spokesperson for the timber industry.

(this is a few weeks old - International Day of Forests was on the 21st of March)

One of Australia’s largest conservation organisations has awarded the federal Coalition just one out of 100 for its environment and climate change policies – the lowest score it has given the Liberal and National parties in more than 20 years of compiling pre-election scorecards.

Labor scraped through with a pass – on 54% – while the Greens achieved 98%, according to the scorecard, which ranked the major parties and key independents on their policies for protecting nature, championing renewable energy, and rejecting nuclear and fossil fuels.

As a Greens voter, I am bemused they scored that high.

That aside, while I realise this is polotocal there is a cross over to the enviorment but then so is everything I guess?

Up to the mod if they think it should be deleted.

The scale of habitat destruction in Queensland and New South Wales – states in which the koala is formally recognised as being at risk of extinction – has continued despite political promises it would be protected.

About three-quarters of the lost forest is estimated to have been cleared for agriculture, to create cattle pasture and crop fields. The analysis found 13% was removed by the forestry industry and 5% for development of infrastructure, including mining. Just 4% was likely due to natural causes, such as bushfire and drought.

Nearly all of the forest destruction occurred on a small scale that did not require consideration under federal environment law.

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Ms Collard said. “The Coalition has done such great work on calling out the failures of voluntary codes in the big supermarket space, so we’re confused as to why they’re effectively offering a voluntary code to the big car makers on pollution.

Good point for them to make about the Coalitions double standards here.

“Now, vehicles like the Ford F150 Lightning, the Tesla Cybertruck, and the Rivian R1T — all powerful, clean options suitable for farm work — could finally become accessible here,” said Ms Collard. “It’s a gut punch to see these leaders wanting to remove these choices from the table.”

I find it hard to believe any farmer would have a use for a cybertruck though.

FCA member and fifth generation farmer Peter Stray penned a letter to the federal government in support of the standards last year

In short:

Scientists have gene-edited a cane toad egg to prevent a hatchling growing past the tadpole stage.

The gene knockout technique could be scaled up and potentially used to manage the invasive species.

What's next?

Field trials are expected in Western Australia later this year after the ecological risks are assessed.

It's an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars if the Tasmanian government is going to pour grants into these grassroots bush regeneration projects but fails to tackle the invasive species that are trashing, tramping and degrading the parks in the first place," she said.