Tweet Facebook Mail New England MP Barnaby Joyce has made an unexpectedly big statement by wearing a pair of cowboy boots in parliament, in a protest of billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrests' proposed windfarms. After a picture of Gold Coast member Angie Bell appearing to ask Joyce about his fashion statement in parliament emerged, 2GB's Ben Fordham investigated why he was wearing the boots. Joyce explained that he didn't want to buy R.
M.Williams boots as the company was owned by Forrest. READ MORE: The Sydney pub standing up for independent breweries against corporate giants Gold Coast MP Angie Bell questions New England MP Barnaby Joyce's boot choice.
(2GB) Joyce said he was at Beef Week in Rockhampton when he decided to boycott the company by wearing the alternative boots, but it was turning out to be bigger than he expected. "I don't mind him (Forrest) as a person but these wind farms are swindle factories..
. they're just killing us in out in the country," Joyce told Fordham. READ MORE: Defence conference told 'more than 1200 Chinese spies operating in Australia' Forrest's Rio Tinto has bought a 14000-megawatt wind farm near Gladstone to provide 25 years of clean power for it's Queensland aluminium operations, according to the Australian Financial Review.
It has made Rio Tino the largest industrial buyer of clean energy in Australia. Joyce said the wind farms were "just future obsolete landfill"..
