Tasmanian Conservation Trust

13/03/2025

Blackmans Bay Public Meeting:
DATE: Thursday, 20 March 2025. TIME: 6.30- 8pm
ADDRESS: Blackmans Bay Hall, 24 Ocean Esplanade, Blackmans Bay.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government want to remove planning appeal rights and replace local councils with a “developer-friendly” assessment and approval process (DAPs), on private and public land, including our World Heritage Areas and National Parks. It is critical for transparency, democracy and good planning that checks and balances are in place, ensuring property developers and decision makers are kept to account. DAPs and removal of appeal rights put these at risk and take local councillors, voters, ratepayers and communities out of planning. The Government has released a draft DAP Bill with public comment closing 24 April 2025.

MC: Sophie Underwood - PMAT, State Director,
Anne Harrison - Blackmans Bay Community Association & Tasmanian Planning Information Network,
Peter McGlone - CEO, Tasmanian Conservation Trust,
Meg Webb - Independent Member for Nelson of the Legislative Council
*More speakers to be announced

11/02/2025

UPDATE: Thanks to our incredible supporters we've reach our initial $25k target 🥳. So to help strengthen CHCAN's effort to stop this wind farm we've set a stretch goal of $35k which we are hoping to meet by February 14th. Your contribution will still make a huge difference for this community group and to keep Robbins Island safe.

Urgent donation appeal: We have 11 days to raise $25k . Please donate by February 11th for a chance to stop the Robbin’s Island wind farm.Please help save Robbins Island by donating to fund a local community group’s court case to stop the Robbins ...

03/02/2025

Not every renewable energy development is environmentally friendly and the proposed Robbins Island wind farm leaves a lot to be desired. This is why we are helping the Circular Head Coastal Awareness Network Inc to raise funds to challenge this development in the Supreme Court. https://donorbox.org/last-chance-to-save-robbins-island Here are the details:

Last chance to save Robbins Island
Please help save Robbins Island by donating to fund a local community group’s court case to stop the Robbins Island wind farm. The fundraising target is $25,000 by 11 February 2025.
Please donate here https://donorbox.org/last-chance-to-save-robbins-island
The Circular Head Coastal Awareness Network is currently challenging the planning and environment permit for the Robbins Island windfarm in the Tasmanian Supreme Court.
After years of struggle against this industrial-scale monster of a wind farm, the CHCAN will finally have its ‘day in court’ starting on 11 February. It is vital you donate before then.
$25 000 is needed to cover the costs of running the court case.
If CHCAN’s lawyers are successful in court Robbins Island will be saved. This means:
• The orange-bellied parrot will be able to visit the island each autumn without being made into mincemeat by 100 massive wind turbines.
• Tasmanian devils will continue to live in a disease-free island sanctuary.
CHCAN have standing to take this court case because it took an appeal against the planning and environment permit to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
CHCAN are a small group of mainly local residents who have bravely taken on the might of a multi-national corporation that wants to build this enormous, destructive wind farm on Robbins Island.
You can help CHCAN save Robbins Island, but we don’t have long. The critical court hearing is scheduled to start on 11 February 2025 and run for 4 days
Please donate now. https://donorbox.org/last-chance-to-save-robbins-island
The CHCAN’s lawyers will argue in court next week that the planning appeals tribunal failed to properly apply the law in three critical ways:
• that the tribunal failed to properly consider alternatives to the construction of a very destructive wharf for transporting the wind turbines to the island,
• that the tribunal erred in finding that the wharf was essential and unavoidable in order to provide an overriding community benefit,
• that the tribunal allowed the proponent to present new evidence at the end of proceedings, supporting the need for the wharf, but did not provide CHCAN an opportunity to respond to this new evidence.
If CHCAN’s lawyers are successful Robbins Island should be saved.
Winning the court case will:
• stop orange-bellied parrots, wedge-tailed eagles and other birds being chopped to pieces in the wind turbines.
• stop the spread of the deadly facial tumour disease to Robbins Island’s disease-free Tasmanian devils.
• reduce car access to the island and reduces devils becoming roadkill.
• stop a massive bridge being built to connect Robbins Island to the Tasmanian mainland, damaging the precious Robbins Passage between the two.
• stop up to one hundred wind turbines, over 200 metres high, being built across the island, connected by 93 kilometres of new roads.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Tasmania Conservation Trust. Donations will allow CHCAN to proceed with this court case and fight to protect Robbins Island.
Yours sincerely,

Peter McGlone
CEO
Tasmanian Conservation Trust
https://donorbox.org/last-chance-to-save-robbins-island