Following revelations in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that Central Queensland Power is selling their portfolio of renewable energy projects, State Member for Mirani, Glen Kelly, and Federal Member for Flynn, Colin Boyce, are asking for them to come clean.
AFR reports that the Central Queensland Power (CQP) renewable energy portfolio includes the Moah Creek Solar/BESS hybrid, Wooderson Solar/BESS hybrid, Mount Rainbow Wind Farm, Mount Sugarloaf Wind Farm and Mount Perry Wind Farm and a Confidential Solar/BESS hybrid.
State Member for Mirani, Glen Kelly has called on Central Queensland Power to come clean with the communities surrounding their projects as to what their plan is.
"CQP have failed to engage properly with the community from the very start of the Moah Creek project, and this is another example of failing to be upfront with the impacted communities of their projects," Mr Kelly said.
"They snuck around and sorted out the land for the Moah Creek project, ran community consultations that were more like lectures and expected the Kalapa and Wycarbah communities to jump on board while treating us like mugs.
"Their actions showed that they clearly didn't care about the impacted community and that's quite clear now that they're trying to offload the project onto someone else.
"They came in, divided our community, caused significant stress on families about what their life was going to become under these massive turbines and now that they've done all that damage to our communities and they're trying cash out and get away."
All of CQP's projects are either in the development or approval stage, with no construction work having started on these projects. CQP is also the proponent for the Moah Creek Wind Farm.
Federal Member for Flynn, Colin Boyce said regional communities are already feeling the brunt of the reckless renewables' rollout with the reported six projects up for sale located in the electorate of Flynn.
"There are over 90 renewable projects proposed in the electorate of Flynn which are creating a large amount of community angst and are literally turning neighbour against neighbour," Mr Boyce said.
"Rather than engaging with communities, it appears that CQP are more eager to engage with potential bidders that have no regard for the regional communities affected by the proposed renewable projects.
"The majority stake of the proposed renewable projects will still be controlled by a developer located in the United Kingdom. So once again, it appears that money will head offshore for overseas investors."
Central Queensland Power is a joint venture of RES and Energy Estate, with the investor pamphlet as reported by the AFR saying that RES wants to continue on as an equity partner until the projects are up and running and would consider selling leftover stakes in the individual assets.
