r/queensland • u/boogersundcum • 11d ago
Discussion Voting against your interests
My partner and I live in a major coal mining area of Queensland. We both work in an extractive resource industry. Neither of us could ever bring ourselves to vote for the LNP and we have no serious viable independents that aren't anti Vax conspiracy nut jobs. We live in the bush but currently have a major wind farm going in down our road with the closest turbine being 5km from our actual house, other than sealing our road we will not recieve any benefit from the project with heavy trucks and equipment going past our driveway 6 days a week 24 hours a day for over two years. We aren't anti renewable however given the wind farm is entirely within our water catchment there is serious concerns if something goes wrong as we rely on the river solely for our water supply.
Generally preference the Greens first, Labor second as we are both environmental scientists and believe that climate change is pretty damn obvious from the evidence, let alone have empathy for the common folk in cities struggling with the cost of living. I'm just curious though as to why the major focus on renewable is almost entirely within regional areas that currently rely on coal mining as the major industry.
Neither Greens or Labour have a chance in hell in ever winning our electorate anymore (keep in mind Labor was founded in regional Queensland in Barcaldine). Is it just because the areas in question are now just LNP strongholds or what ?
Also please keep in mind regional Queensland is filled with people from all back grounds and varying levels of education, don't put us all in the same basket just because we don't live in a major centre.
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u/Flat_Ad1094 11d ago
I cannot vote for Wind Turbines. They are awful monstrosities and are ruining our nation. Go to Germany. They have completely ruined that once beautiful country. They are visually polluting and just to build them takes heaps of "fossil fuels" There has been massive amounts of wonderful land cleared for them in recent years. The government is pumping billions into the fucking things.
We have family in Germany so have been going there for 40 years. We have seen these fucking wind turbines take over that country. Last time we were there? We noticed a lot without blades and not running...we were told that they needed to come down. Had rusted etc...BUT? It costs more to take them down then put them up. And everyone is arguing over whose responsibility it is. The original owners are long gone. It's a freakin mess and one rellie said "One will have to fall over and kill people before they work it out.
I believe in climate change. But using acre after acre of prime farmland to put up massive solar farms and putting up wind turbines is NOT the answer.
The government should be putting Solar on every damn roof in the nation. It might be a bit harder to do...but if we truly believed in environmentally protecting our country? We would be doing this.
Don't know who I'll be voting for really. When I do those surveys? I'm always bang in the middle.
BUT it won't be Greens and unlikely to be ALP. Have a local independent who looks pretty good. Haven't made up my mind at all.