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Green Form Scott Baxter
Environmental Conservation
Margaret River Region, Western Australia
Save the Scott River, No Wind Turbines

Digital ID is being sold as “keeping kids safe” and “making life easier for adults”.But once you need a government-appro...
09/12/2025

Digital ID is being sold as “keeping kids safe” and “making life easier for adults”.

But once you need a government-approved ID just to use social media, that’s a massive overreach into your personal life.

These under-16 rules tied to a mandatory digital ID? That’s a live database of who your kids are, what they watch, who they talk to and when. That’s not protection, that’s control.

And once they build systems like this, they never wind them back.

So if staying here means plugging into a centralised ID system, I’m out.

If they flick that switch tomorrow and make it compulsory, I’ll step off FB and Insta. You can still reach me/us via:
📧 Email
📱 SMS/text
💬 WhatsApp / Telegram
🌐 Website

I’m not signing up for another layer of government overreach. You’ll know where to find me — and we can sidestep this creeping communist-style control.

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Meet Cattle dog in the making… 🐾
09/12/2025

Meet
Cattle dog in the making… 🐾

Ever get the feeling the game is rigged?There’s a much bigger story behind Scott River than “just one wind farm”. At the...
08/12/2025

Ever get the feeling the game is rigged?

There’s a much bigger story behind Scott River than “just one wind farm”. At the centre of it is Paul Vogel and a classic case of regulatory capture.

While chairing the NT EPA and overseeing the concealed Darwin LNG methane leak, Vogel was also advising the WA Government on its so-called Independent Review of Environmental Approvals. That Vogel-McFerran review is now the blueprint for “streamlining” approvals for mining and energy projects — the very industry interests he’s meant to regulate.

In WA, Vogel helped build the modern EPA structure as Chair (2007–2015). Then in 2024 he’s brought back to rewrite the rulebook. Same network, same revolving door — industry-aligned consultants shaping policy under the banner of “independence”.

It’s very hard to feel confident about environmental protection when someone who’s been on the payroll of industry players like INPEX – a key player behind the Scott River wind farm proposal – is also steering the processes that decide what gets assessed and how. This is exactly what regulatory capture looks like.

If you want to understand why communities don’t trust this system, start here.

I’ve put the ABC piece, the Greens media release and the Vogel-McFerran review in the comments below…

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⚠️ EPA just walked away from the Scott River wind farm assessment! The EPA has just decided not to do a full environment...
08/12/2025

⚠️ EPA just walked away from the Scott River wind farm assessment! The EPA has just decided not to do a full environmental assessment of the Scott River wind farm!

More than 300 people made submissions, most of them calling for a full public environmental review, and that hasn’t happened. From where we sit, it feels like government departments are siding with industry rather than local communities and the environment. We’ve seen a similar pattern recently at Burswood Park and the Crawley ferry terminal – “nothing to see here” from the EPA, while locals see it very differently. We need the EPA to do its job now more than ever.

Out of 380 submissions, 321 asked for a full public environmental review. Instead, we’re being told to trust an energy giant’s weak and unsubstantiated management plan on a fragile floodplain 🌧️.

Remember: this is not a cosy little Synergy community project… The proponent is SynergyRED and Bright Energy Investments. Synergy is the minority partner at 19% – 81% of the project sits with Enel and Inpex, two of the world’s biggest oil and gas multinationals 🛢️.

And this decision does not mean the wind farm is approved ✅❌.

The real fight now moves to:
• Clearing permits (DWER) 📝
• Water licences (RiWI Act) 💧
• The Shire’s renewable energy policy 📘
• The state planning panel 🏛️

For now, please share this, and don’t accept the “nothing to see here, just cleared farmland” spin. This is a high-risk industrial energy zone being dropped into a unique, fragile landscape and farming community 🌱.

Wrong project. Wrong place. We’re not done!

There’s more info over at No Wind Turbines - Scott River ✌️

Scenes from the farm…
07/12/2025

Scenes from the farm…

Its all about the layers — all lit up
05/12/2025

Its all about the layers — all lit up

Waiting for the sand to return…
02/12/2025

Waiting for the sand to return…

When the ocean calls… it rises
01/12/2025

When the ocean calls… it rises

Same location — a few months apart…
30/11/2025

Same location — a few months apart…

Rest up little one… 💤Blue-banded dreams
29/11/2025

Rest up little one… 💤
Blue-banded dreams

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