BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement:

Published Yesterday at 10:23 AM

Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations

The Honourable Jarrod Bleijie

A Fresh Start for Queensland: Local community consultation rights made permanent on wind farm developments

* Election commitment to make wind farms impact assessable delivered * Mandatory community consultation now required for all new wind farm developments * Regional communities to have a say on future projects

The Crisafulli Government has delivered a key election commitment with all wind farm developments becoming impact assessable from Monday, 3 February.

The ne...