Plans for a huge construction port in Western Port to assemble and transport wind farm components were rejected by the Federal Environment Minister.
On the water in the Western Port , about an hour from Melbourne, it doesn’t long to notice the contradictions. This is a very small area with a very high concentration of migratory birds and endangered birds. The Western Port area, they actually have something like 50 per cent of all the bird species in the entire state. This wetland is part of the international convention signed in Ramsar, Iran more than 50 years ago to protect bird habitats around the world.
Those seagrass beds that are feeding those swans over there, they'd be gone for a start. Plans for a huge construction port here to assemble and transport massive towers and blades offshore were rejected by Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in December
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