‘Leave politics to the politicians’: why rural Queensland is a hotbed of renewable energy

Renewable energy developers are following tracks laid by the gas industry in the Western Downs – but they’re also making the same mistakesSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityAgriculture was once king in Glen Beasley’s neighbourhood on Queensland’s Darling Downs, a vast agricultural area about 200km west of Brisbane. “It was all grain, beef, timber and a bit of coal,” he says.Then a h