Pioneer-Burdekin and an ambitious energy transformation

In Queensland, where political extremes range from Green dominance in inner Brisbane to conservative areas in the north, the gap between voters’ views on energy tends to be huge.

In the pristine Pioneer Valley north of Mackay, the choice is between hundreds of homes being destroyed to make way for a major renewable energy project, or investors with billions of dollars walking away, taking jobs and economic activity with them.

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