20/04/2026
7NEWS Spotlight: 'The dirty secret powering Australia’s green future' story last night had a lot of impact, especially to those who avoid social media and have had less exposure to the environmental downside to the renewable energy utopia. It was incredibly sad to watch the exploitation of subsidence and child labor in Africa by Chinese communist government companies mining raw material from which manufactured in China are the batteries, wind towers and solar infrastructure that Australia buys.
Part of the Spotlight story featured Steven Nowakowski and the levelling of the ridgetops of Queensland's Great Dividing Range. Steve will be one of the presenters at the PRA conference in Roma on May 23 and half day field trip next day.
Image sourced from a Spotlight preview of 'The dirty secret powering Australia’s green future', which contains more photos from other parts of the story
https://7news.com.au/spotlight/7news-spotlight-the-dirty-secret-powering-australias-green-future-c-22159400
Liam Bartlett has also published this blog entry about his travels around Africa and Australia for this story
https://7news.com.au/news/liam-bartlett-australias-energy-security-has-been-sacrificed-on-altar-of-green-politics-amid-middle-east-war-c-22161428
