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Barnaby Joyce visits prime example of direct environmental action in Fadden
 Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt Reduction Barnaby Joyce recently visited, on Stuart's invitation, Mitchell Enviro Industrial Estate, the world’s first carbon-neutral industrial estate, located on the northern Gold Coast.
Mitchell Enviro Industrial Estate is the only one of its kind in Australia. Boasting a carbon neutral footprint, the estate is the first and only industrial property in Australia to be granted as an authorised EnviroDevelopment by the Urban Development Institute of Australia with a 6 Leaf Certification. The ten acre ‘eco-estate’ is located in the Yatala Industrial Precinct.
Various technologies and processes have been carefully considered and then implemented on Mitchell Enviro Industrial Estate to assist it in being self-sustainable.
The $18 million project was the first industrial subdivision in Australia to exclusively use in-house water and sewage systems. It has no connection to Gold Coast City Council water and sewage infrastructure. All street lighting, water pumps and filtering systems are driven by grid-connected solar power.
The estate is a great example of what innovative and motivated people can do to reduce our carbon emissions without hurting our lifestyles through Mr Rudd’s great big new tax on everything.
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