Photo provided by the office of Robbie Katter MP.
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called out the ‘perverse underbelly of environmentalism’ in a brutal critique of the state and federal governments.
Mr Katter said Australians were being taken for fools amid the current cost of living crisis
“When we’ve turned our beautiful agricultural plains into industrial wastelands of imported solar and wind power products, and when the only fresh produce we can afford is imported, will the governments cry out “let them eat solar panels”? he asked.
“All jokes aside – why have all these self-identified environmentalists not stopped for a second to consider the impact that forcing a transition to renewables, which have drastic resource requirements, on the environment?
“Australia is blessed with some the richest agricultural lands in the world, we’re meant to be the food bowl of Asia, and yet it feels like there’s a race to destroy what we have instead of protecting and utilising it.
“This is the perverse underbelly of environmentalism in the 21st century.”
Mr Katter called for all levels of government to ensure renewables projects were adhering to high levels of environmental and social responsibility and called for an expansion of protections for prime agricultural land across Queensland.
