Yearly Archives: 2019

MEDIA RELEASE: NINE COMMUNITY GROUPS FIRST TO BENEFIT FROM WIND FARM FUND

 A school’s project to encourage healthy eating and enjoyment of the area’s abundant local produce will be among the first to benefit from the Mount Emerald Wind Farm Community Fund.  Walkamin State School’s Kitchen and Garden Program was one of nine projects chosen for the fund’s first grants, after an advisory committee made up of…

MEDIA RELEASE: COMMUNITY GROUPS SET TO BENEFIT FROM WIND FARM FUND

 The launch of the Mount Emerald Wind Farm Community Fund has sparked strong interest from local groups, with more than 40 applications received from Far North Queensland organisations.  Ratch-Australia, the owner and operator of the wind farm, will donate $200,000 to support local causes every year of the turbines’ working lives.  Now that applications have…