I’d like to thank Mr Reg Lawler (Gympie Today 9th August 2024) for showing interest in the new Let’s Rethink Renewables campaign which has recently been released on Billboards along the Bruce Highway, in particular outside Gympie Sports Club and across the road from the Channon Street KFC intersection.
Mr Lawler has also shown interest in the recent Off Grid Expo and rightfully stated that many people attended the Expo.
The Off Grid Expo is an excellent event and one that I have attended in past years myself because I live partially off grid with my family on a property at Black Snake and am always looking for ways to use a lighter touch on the Earth and be able to exist during times of black-outs. I’d like to point out to Mr Lawler that the Let’s Rethink Renewables campaign is not targeted toward the type of products that the consumer would find at the Off Grid Expo, it is targeted at industrial sized complexes such as the solar panel complex that can be found between Gympie and Kilkivan on the Wide Bay Highway and over the road on the Woolooga Gympie Road.
For any readers of The Gympie Today who have not seen this complex in person, I urge you take a drive and have a look because I am certain that almost every one who goes to look at it will be shocked at what they see.
I vehemently refute Mr Lawler’s insinuation that I am out of touch with what people of the Gympie region are in support of.
I have lived in this region for seven years, though my family settled in Goomboorian, Gympie and Tin Can Bay in the 1870’s.
I have a deep rooted love of this region and want nothing more than to see a sustainable future for our communities, businesses and environment.
Those who know me, know very well that I am constantly asking questions of people, engaging in conversations, researching issues and attempting to find the happy medium solutions for those issues.
The Let’s Rethink Renewables campaign is wholly funded by property owners from the Gympie region and some individuals who live in Brisbane who had heard about the Billboards and wished to donate because they felt so strongly about the industrialisation of our landscape.
I am sure that the hard-working farmers who chipped in the money that brought these Billboards to life, would have never contributed a single cent if the Let’s Rethink Renewables message was not their wish.
I invite Mr Lawler to look through the lists of the tens of thousands of members on various Facebooks pages like Kilkivan Action Group, Wide Bay Residents Against Forest Wind, National Rational Energy Network, Climate Realists, Biggenden Community Action Group, Bullyard/Maroondan Action Group, Mt Perry Action Group, Project Pure Earth, Reckless Renewables and many more as he will find numerous names of people from this region.
The mutual reason that all these people are coming together fighting against the industrialisation of Gympie region, Queensland and Australia is because they do not wish to see our productive farmlands, wildlife habitats, communities, rural landscapes and Australian way of life irreversibly destroyed by the rollout of the ‘Reckless Renewables’.
My contact details are listed on the Queensland One Nation website and I welcome Mr Lawler to call or email me so that we may open up a dialogue where I can hear his concerns and where I can inform him of the concerns of the people that I am standing up for.
In my opinion, you could not find a better place in Australia than right here in the Gympie region to work, live, run a business, retire or raise a family.
Gympie region is home to a diverse range of industry, business, geography and communities and the success of those communities is testament to the amazing people that live throughout this amazing region.
I have always fought for what is right and to defend the rights and needs of people from all walks of life, who for whatever reason aren’t able to speak for themselves.
I am running in the 2024 Queensland State Election for the electorate of Gympie because I believe that I can be a voice for this region, a voice that will be heard above the rabble that currently exists in the Queensland Parliament and in doing so bring attention and action to the vital issues that will lead to a more prosperous and sustainable future for the people, businesses and environment in the Gympie region.
