The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has rejected a $100m wind farm proposal in central Queensland on the grounds it would clear old-growth forest important to vulnerable and threatened species, including the koala and greater glider.  Ley ruled the Lotus Creek wind farm, nearly 200km north-west of Rockhampton, was “clearly unacceptable” under national environment laws, in part because the site was home to species that were badly affected in other parts of the country during last summer’s catastrophic bushfires.  The Australian Conservation Foundation welcomed the decision, saying no commercial project should leave biodiversity worse off. But it noted it came less than a month after Ley approved a coalmine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin that would lead to the destruction of threatened species habitat.