Arrested for birdwatching
Arrested for birdwatching Rob Blakers, internationally-renowned wildlife and landscape photographer, will today appear in Burnie Magistrates Court facing charges of trespass on Pilitika / Robbins Island. Rob was birdwatching and photographing the vast birdlife threatened by a proposed wind farm with 100 212-metre-high turbines across two-thirds of the island. Rob Blakers photographed the threatened shorebirds […]
Bob Brown Foundation lodges appeal against flawed Robbins Island wind farm approval.
Bob Brown Foundation has lodged an appeal in TASCAT against the flawed and incomplete planning approvals for the Robbins Island wind farm. The wind farm was approved by Circular Head Council subject to conditions set by the EPA. Bob Brown Foundation has been critical of the incomplete nature of the approval conditions, which rely heavily […]
