Energy Efficiency

After running roughshod over all and sundry to address the requirements of various corporations and helped keep him in power while lining his pockets, using the Police force to smash peaceful protests and demolishing heritage listed buildings, even the more caring would find it difficult to empathise with Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen as she sits next to the grave of her husband Sir Joh at the family property, Bethany, Kingaroy, now under threat of mining.

Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen (widow of Sir Joh), indicated she will fight plans to mine the family property at Kingaroy in the state’s south-east. Cougar Energy has been granted a development licence to build an underground coal gasification plant and eventually a 400 megawatt power station, which includes the right to explore land to the north of its licence for coal; that exploration permit includes the Bjelke-Petersen properties.

The property has been in the family since 1913 and of course Lady Flo would like to be buried beside Joh; the Queensland state government has had scant regard for anyone or the environment, allowing massive land degradation, so it should be business as usual.