Fears renewable energy projects could turn FNQ's rainforest into 'industrial wasteland' | ABC News

There are calls for the Queensland government to stop approving large, foreign-owned wind farm developments in Far North Queensland, amid fears the area could become an "industrial wasteland".

The South-Korean owned wind and solar energy developer Epuron wants to build a 94-wind turbine development that will border World Heritage listed rainforest, west of Cairns.

Assessment work is already under way for the site which will be located on two pastoral properties near Tully Falls National Park, part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.

More than 1,200 hectares of land will be cleared to make way for more than 200-metre-high turbines as part of the Chalumbin Wind Farm.

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The wind farm is expected to stretch from an area west of Ingham, north to the west of Cairns.

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