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		<title>New wind farm plans stir up discontent</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for a multimillion dollar wind farm near Crookwell have re-opened old wounds in the Yass Valley.
Epuron, the company responsible for the inception of wind farm projects at Cullerin Range and Conroy’s Gap, has announced plans for another wind farm near Crookwell.
Epuron sold the planning rights for the Gunning and Yass wind farm projects to Origin Energy in January and recently submitted environmental and engineering investigations for the Gullen Range wind farm project to the NSW Department of Planning for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm possibility near Lancelin</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pacific Hydro is investigating the possibility of a wind farm on farmland at Nilgen, 10 kilometres north east of Lancelin.
There will be an information session at Lancelin Community (Country Women’s Association) Hall on Sunday, August 10, from 11am to 5pm and community members are encouraged to drop in between these times to talk to company representatives or give feedback.
Pacific Hydro’s Matthew Rosser said the Australian company had a global view plus the vision, expertise and dedication to develop renewable energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New potential for wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pacific Hydro recently began the construction of a wind farm at Clements Gap and they are assessing the potential of other sites.
A location east of Georgetown, running 18 km along a ridgeline from Mt Misery, has been identified and preliminary investigations indicate the site is suitable for a wind farm of up to 70 turbines with a capacity up to 175MW.
Pacific Hydro claim a wind farm this size could produce enough zero emission energy to power the equivalent of 80,000 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Perth council rejects city wind power turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perth councillors drew public applause tonight when they denied permission for a new city building to site wind-turbine power generators on its roof.
The three bright-red vertical turbines  would have reached 9m above the roof of a 13-storey building under construction on the southern side of Adelaide Tce, with frontages to Terrrace Rd and Victoria Ave.
Neighbours in surrounding high-rise apartments had complained that the Dutch-designed turbines would create a visual eyesore and unnecessary noise, affecting the values of their properties.
Lord .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council to rule on wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fate of what could be the city&#8217;s greenest building hangs in the balance with Perth City Council poised to decide tonight on whether to grant planning approval for the rooftop construction of three massive red wind turbines.
The five-storey “Durack 2” office block, planned by developer Stockland for the corner of Terrace Road and Victoria Avenue, overlooking Langley Park, was set to become Perth&#8217;s only five-star environmental building.
Sustainability experts have said the green rating of the building could be compromised .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Gone with the wind: Claims upcoming poll will be a &#39;mockery&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[RESIDENTS of the Upper Lachlan Shire will finally have their say regarding wind farm developments as they go to the polls next month.
But in the face of the impending plebiscite, set to run alongside local council elections on September 13, residents have been left uncertain as to how the results will be used.
&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to ascertain this but no-one seems to know,&#8221; Friends of Crookwell representative, Humphrey Price-Jones said.
&#8220;The council held a poll in the Taralga district and the result .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Massive wind farm planned for southern Qld</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind farm proposed for the South Burnett region in Queensland would be the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere, generating enough power for 32,000 homes within three years.
Coopers Gap Wind Farm would consist of 252 turbines and cost &#36;1.2 billion to construct on cleared grazing land south-west of Kingaroy.
The company has been established by Investec Bank and Windlab Systems, a CSIRO-established company specialising in wind resources.
Project manager Lynne Lagan said initial feedback to the proposal has been positive.
&#8220;You definitely get .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another major wind farm on the cards</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A major new renewable energy project is in the wind, north of Dalby, on the Darling Downs, Qld.
Following extensive air-speed testing at various sites around Australia over the past three years, Investec Bank has identified a 12,000 hectare site at Cooranga North near Dalby as an ideal place to establish a wind farm.
The proposal is to build up to 252 wind turbine generators, located mainly on ridge lines in an area known as Coopers Gap.
The area specified is defined as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Land security vital: NSW Farmers</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The NSW Farmers&#8217; Association is strongly opposing the State Government&#8217;s intentions to make it much easier for Government and Councils to compulsory resume privately owned land for other than essential services such as roads, rail lines and telecommunications.
Speaking at the Association&#8217;s annual conference in Sydney yesterday, NSW Farmers&#8217; president Jock Laurie says as a landholder, farmers should have the security of knowing that the land they inhabit is not at risk of being taken from them without undue cause.
&#8220;The structure .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Threat to Perth&#39;s flagship green building</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Concerns over three nine-metre high wind turbines planned for the roof of a new office block may rob Perth&#8217;s CBD of its first five-star environmental building.
&#8220;I think it needed a bit more consideration,&#8221; City of Perth councillor Judy McEvoy said after the council planning committee she chairs last night unanimously rejected the turbines.
&#8220;When you put these kinds of things up, on the proviso that acoustic readings will be done afterwards, who&#8217;s going to pull them down?&#8221;
Developer Stockland wants to install .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blades split town</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Celebrity chef Peter Russell-Clarke says the small community of Tooborac is being torn apart by plans for a 70-turbine wind farm.
Mr Russell-Clarke, 73, who moved to the town of 300 near Lancefield two years ago, said locals were divided over the plan by Transfield Services.
Mr Russell-Clarke, also an accomplished painter, said he had shelved plans for a community art studio in the town due to the plans.
&#8220;People who have invested everything in this town stand to go broke,&#8221; Mr Russell-Clarke .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar may impact windfarm economics</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[TrustPower, the power station operator controlled by Infratil, said a decline in the New Zealand dollar may reduce the economics of wind farms.
The company typically buys its turbines in euros and its towers in US dollars, which have both weakened against the kiwi.
The company is gearing up to expand its wind farms in Australia, where it is to install about 140 MW of generators, and in New Zealand, where it has consents for more turbines.
The kiwi&#8217;s decline &#8220;may make wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Community wind farm share offer: &#36;9.5m and two turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first share offer in Australia&#8217;s first community-owned wind farm was launched in Daylesford yesterday.
About &#36;9.5 million in community investment is needed to build the two-turbine Hepburn Community Wind Park at Leonards Hill.
Yesterday, Hepburn Wind chairman Simon Holmes a Court, son of prominent business woman and philanthropist Janet Holmes a Court, unveiled the share offer and said the project was &#8220;ready for the prime time&#8221;.
A large crowd filled Daylesford Town Hall, where police also attended to keep opposition in check, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm may bring a multitude of problems for land owners</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A number of land owners south of Ballarat are worried they may have a second set of powerlines running across their land to reach a wind farm being built near Elaine.
West Wind Energy is developing the 64-turbine farm at Mount Mercer.
Paul Rogers, from Buninyong, says he has received a letter saying part of his land may be acquired for powerlines to connect the wind farm to the electricity grid.
He says there is already one set of powerlines running across his .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>VCAT set to rule on wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A controversial plan for 14 wind turbines up to 130 metres high near Winchelsea is headed for Victoria’s planning tribunal, a community group has warned.
Barrabool Hills Landscape Guardians’ Kathy Russell was angry Surf Coast Shire approved the plan with conditions this week despite community opposition.
Ms Russell said objectors were “very disappointed” with council’s decision
“We will continue to challenge this development at Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal,” Mrs Russell said.
“If we can’t stop the development we will try to make sure .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Three SA sites in wind farm deal</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[AGL Energy has acquired seven wind farm sites in a deal with the Allco Finance Group.
The &#36;12.5 million deal includes South Australian sites at Dublin, Burra and Eudunda.
The company says it is assessing the viability of the projects, which are at various stages of development.
It says they will help it meet its obligations under the federal mandatory renewable energy targets scheme.
ABC News
24 July 2008
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		<title>Opponents to fight wind</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opponents have vowed to fight for better State Government planning guidelines for wind farms after the Surf Coast Shire approved a 14-turbine farm near Winchelsea.
Barrabool Hills Landscape Guardians maintain existing guidelines are riddled with holes, are outdated by technology and give potentially affected residents little voice.
Councillors voted 6-3 in favour of the 700ha farm at Mt Pollock, bordered by Gnarwarre, Mt Pollock and Peels roads 10km from Winchelsea.
The shire had received 37 objections to the development on grounds including changes .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Input sought for Hepburn Shire wind energy draft</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Community input is needed on draft wind energy facility guidelines.
Submissions to Hepburn Shire Council close on August 15.
The guidelines developed by the council provide an overview of the wind energy facility planning approval process, the State Government policy towards wind energy facilities, protecting rights of land owners and occupiers, and protecting rights of wind energy facility proponents and operators.
Infrastructure and Development director Rod Conway said the guidelines indicated the development controls the council could consider in relation to future applications .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Lomond wind farm for sale</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The future of the proposed Ben Lomond Windfarm is unclear, with the developers putting the project up for sale.
Developer the Allco Finance Group has announced it is in the process of selling its wind assets. Media representative Bernard Voll said the environmental assessment has been completed but would be lodged by the purchaser.
“It is ready to be lodged with the Department of Planning but how it is done is a decision the purchaser will make. The sale is expected to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Allco sells wind farm to pay debts</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allco Finance says it has completed the sale of its US Tehachapi wind farm assets, and has cut its senior debt by &#36;230 million as a result.
Allco announced last month that it and its co-investors had agreed to offload the Californian wind farm, considered one of its best overseas assets, to a US consortium for &#36;US325 million (&#36;346 million).
The sale has resulted in an anticipated after tax net share of sale proceeds for Allco of approximately &#36;163 million, as well .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Newfield wind farm hearings begin</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal starts hearings today into a proposed wind farm near the Great Ocean Road at Newfield.
Acciona Energy wants to build 15 turbines at the site, but in January, the Corangamite Council refused to approve the &#36;50 million project.
The council says the wind farm would be visible from the Great Ocean Road and more than 60 properties would be impacted by noise and sunlight reflecting from the blades.
Acciona Energy says the development should be allowed to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Decision on way for statement for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A decision will be made in coming months on whether the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm needs an Environmental Effects Statement.
Wind Power made the referral to the Planning Minister Justin Madden last month for its proposed 282-turbine wind farm.
If Mr Madden finds the project would have a significant environmental impact, the company must prepare an EES document.
Wind Power engineer Ross Richards said the company had worked with the Department of Sustainability and Environment to reduce possible environmental impacts, working out the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy body in turmoil</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The peak body for renewable power, the Clean Energy Council, was issued with a writ yesterday seeking that it be ordered to appoint an independent accountant or be wound up.
The affidavit, lodged in the Federal Court on behalf of the council&#8217;s deputy chairman Peter Szental, requests that the CEC be ordered to allow a report to be prepared on whether it is solvent.
The report should also show the adequacy of the defendant&#8217;s financial records, according to the writ filed by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure builds for wind farm probe</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Brumby Government is under pressure to subject a massive proposed project containing 282 wind turbines &#8212; Victoria&#8217;s biggest &#8212; to environmental scrutiny amid increasing unrest from local residents.
Wind Power, the company behind a wind farm initially blocked over the orange-bellied parrot, is fighting claims the project will be detrimental to the nationally threatened striped legless lizard, the wedge-tailed eagle, the golden sun moth and the brolga, a crane common in northern Australia but vulnerable in Victoria.
The company said yesterday .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lal Lal Windfarm concerns aired</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents surrounding the proposed Lal Lal Windfarm have aired more concerns over the plan.
Some residents believe they have no guarantee how the proposal will affect them, the visual amenity and farming.
WestWind-Energy lodged its planning application with the planning minister last month for a 64-turbine wind farm, split into two sections, north of Elaine and east of Yendon.
Millbrook resident Michael Phyland is making a submission to the proposal, with his property only 700m from the nearest proposed turbine.
His family recently had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient landscapes swept by the winds of change</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[For millions of years, Cape Bridgewater was among the wildest peninsulas in Australia, torn by gales and assaulted by the Southern Ocean.
In the last few weeks, its nature has changed utterly.
The quest for renewable, carbon-free energy has redrawn its ancient silhouette.
Soon all the headlands around Portland, in far western Victoria, will be transformed by crops of giant wind turbines, each taller than the light towers at the MCG, as we seize the power of the wind.
As the Garnaut draft report .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>They must think we’re green to think they are</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind farm might be a dangerous place for chickens to roost given the threat the rotating blades are said to pose for birdlife. But a whole flock of chooks from former premier Geoff Gallop’s backyard coop landed in the middle of a wind farm north of Perth last week.
These were carrier chooks. They came with a message that must have left a salty taste in the mouth of the man who now teaches the principles of government in New .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm knowledge no reason not to object</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[TWO families at the forefront of opposition to the Glen Innes Windfarm have conceded they had heard rumours of a proposed windfarm on the Waterloo range prior to building and purchasing dwellings within two kilometres of neighbouring properties that had entered into lease agreements with the windfarm developers, but said there was no indication the project would go ahead.
The two-kilometre setback is a key component of council’s windfarm development control plan (DCP). Members of the Glen Innes Landscape Guardians who .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm heats up</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Glen Innes Severn Council has maintained its position that its Development Control Plan for windpower generation is council’s policy, despite revelations that some opponents had been broadly aware of the proposal for some time.
Council’s position was re-iterated following a fiery public forum at its monthly meeting on Thursday, at which it was also criticised by opponents for not taking ownership of the problem.
During the forum windfarm opponent and Furracabad valley landowner Frank McAlary QC revealed early in the piece he .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green electricity users face &#39;double bills&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[GREENPOWER users will be double billed if changes to the new greenhouse gas reporting system are not made, says University of Adelaide climate change Professor Barry Brook.
This could cause the GreenPower national accreditation scheme to &#8220;implode&#8221; when an emissions trading scheme is introduced in 2010.
Professor Brook said the almost 750,000 households and businesses using GreenPower nationally would be penalised once an emissions trading scheme was introduced as they would be paying extra to buy power from renewable sources.
They also would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Analyse wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I refer to the article in the Northern Argus (June 18, 2008) “Wind power puts Hallett on map”. The article portrays the wind power development recently completed at Hallett and the further wind power sites proposed by AGL in the future as unequivocally positive. I would like to present another perspective and highlight some of the issues that have not been included in the article.
What your readers may not know is that, in addition to the Hallett Stage 1 construction .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Desalination plant claims questioned</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The West Australian Water Corporation was mistaken in claiming Perth&#8217;s desalination plant is carbon neutral, the WA Conservation Council says.   
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told a private complainant the corporation can no longer claim that the plant is carbon neutral and directly powered by the Emu Downs wind farm, north of Perth.   
The complainant told ABC Radio that the ACCC should follow up by demanding an apology from the Water Corporation and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lal Lal wind farm hiccup</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six of the 64 turbines proposed for a wind farm at Lal Lal will be relocated after Aboriginal artefacts were discovered.
But the applicant WestWind Energy says it does not expect the find to ground the project.
Ancient quartz and silcrete artefacts have been found scattered where six turbines were proposed.
The artefacts were most likely parts of tools used as knives or axes.
WestWind Energy must now conform to the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2006 by creating a Complex Cultural Heritage Management Plan.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Act changes allow parallel leases</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amendments to the Western Lands Act and Crowns Lands Act have been passed in Parliament, enabling parallel leases to exist on land required for critical infrastructure such as wind farms.
A spokesman for the graziers, Nigel Lawrence, said earlier this month, the legislation was headed in the right direction, but had some bugs that needed working out.
Last week, a review to the Western Lands Act recommended changes be made and tabled in State Parliament, the changes were passed unanimously in both .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents use DVD to highlight wind farm worries</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A residents&#8217; group opposing wind turbines in the McHarg Ranges, south-east of Bendigo, is stepping up its campaign.
The Residents Against Turbines in Tooborac is distributing a DVD outlining its concerns.
The company, Transfield Services, is measuring wind speeds in the ranges, but is yet to put forward a wind farm proposal.
A spokesman for the residents&#8217; group, Peter Russell-Clarke, says the wind farms are inefficient and will ruin the landscape.
He says tourism will also be affected.
&#8220;A lot of the people in the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm unaffected by financier&#39;s woes</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE future of the Glen Innes Windfarm project on Waterloo Range is unlikely to be affected by the financial woes being suffered by investment house Babcock and Brown, one of two partners in the project, according to a company spokesperson.
The market value of the troubled investment house halved last week, with concerns of mounting debt and that the firms European and Australian banks will review their lending to the company. Its fortunes recovered slightly in the past two days, after .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Babcock disaster looms</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The passengers are screaming at the back of the Babcock bullet train. The driver Phil Green and his crew are working frantically in the engine room to avert disaster. They have two levers left to pull.
The first is pulling a partner with deep pockets, the second is flogging the wind assets fast.
Forget the evil hedge fund &#8220;shorting&#8221; angle. Forget the strong fundamentals and solid assets spiel.
The destruction of Babcock &#038; Brown&#8217;s stock price &#8212; although expedited by margin calls and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>AGL flags wind farm expansion</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[AGL ENERGY is investigating expanding its Hallet wind farm in South Australia as the company aims to have almost half of its power generated from renewables by 2020.
Australia&#8217;s largest power retailer today officially opened its &#36;236 million Hallet stage one wind farm 220 km north of Adelaide, the first of four planned for the area.
AGL Energy is building on its renewable power generation ahead of the introduction of a national carbon trading system in 2010 and the federal government&#8217;s target .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm code group in limbo</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group appointed to establish a national wind farm code is unsure about its future.
The Howard government set up the group a year ago, but the members have never met.
Former Pyrenees mayor David Clark was appointed to the group and says he has not heard anything from the new Federal Government.
He says the committee is still relevant, especially if the Government is serious about meeting its renewable energy targets.
&#8220;There&#8217;s one of two things happening, either the committee is still in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm surge in Victoria</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Planning Minister Justin Madden has telegraphed his approval for another windfarm development in the south west of the state.
Moyne Shire Council has received a letter from the minister&#8217;s office detailing Mr Madden&#8217;s assessment of a 68-turbine, &#36;300-million project.
The windfarm site is near the Port Fairy-Hamilton Rd intersection with Spencer Rd, known locally as Ryans Corner.
Moyne council has already agreed to the project, but it had to go to the minister&#8217;s office for the final stamp of approval.
&#8220;I intend to grant .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Barunga locals see red over wind farm lights</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[About 40 locals were at a meeting at Redhill last night to hear from the company Transfield Services about a wind farm planned for the Barunga ranges.
The company has moved into a feasibility study of the mid-north South Australian region and plans to build 40 to 60 wind turbines off Highway One between Adelaide and Port Pirie.
Some people at the meeting told the company&#8217;s representatives they are worried that red lights on the turbines will be an eyesore and that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents petition against wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents of Hallett and nearby Mount Bryan in mid-north South Australia have started a petition against the construction of up to four wind farms in the area.
Energy giant AGL is set to open the first of the wind farms this week.
Local resident Felicity Martin initiated the petition which focuses on the mental and physical issues concerned with the developments.
Ms Martin says despite public consultation, there are several issues still to be addressed.
&#8220;In Scotland and Wales they&#8217;re actually paying for people .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Anger at sale of wind farm to Japanese firm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A South Gippsland residents group has slammed a decision to sell the controversial Bald Hills wind farm project at Tarwin Lower to a Japanese company.
But the move was yesterday strongly endorsed by the Brumby Government and defended by the Melbourne company that has developed the project so far.
Tarwin Valley Coastal Guardians spokesman Tim Le Roy said he was disappointed that the Japanese company Mitsui had acquired the wind farm project through its Australian subsidiary. And he expressed surprise Mitsui had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Legal threat to Victorian wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The much-delayed Bald Hills wind farm in Victoria faces a new hurdle, with opponents threatening a High Court challenge to try to scuttle the contentious project.
Ownership of the proposed wind farm &#8212; notorious for being rejected because of a perceived threat to the orange-bellied parrot &#8212; has been sold to the Australian arm of the Japanese company Mitsui.
The proposed cost of the project has blown out to &#36;300million, with the wind farm now scheduled to operate from 2011, five years .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm opponents still seeking answers</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opponents to the proposed Tuki wind farm at Smeaton believe the project may not go ahead.
Wind Power wants to erect at least 19 turbines in the area.
But the Spa Country Landscape Guardians group says the company is failing to answer questions about the project.
A group member, Christian Wilde, says the lack of information is raising significant doubt in the community about the project&#8217;s future.
&#8220;Many of the questions can be summed up in, what are you doing?&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s as simple .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese firm buys up wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The much-delayed Bald Hills wind farm in Victoria, notorious for being rejected due to a perceived threat to the orange-bellied parrot, has been sold to Japanese interests.
And the proposed cost of the project has blown out to &#36;300million, with the wind farm now scheduled to operate from 2011, five years after former environment minister Ian Campbell caved in and belatedly approved the project.
Japanese company Mitsui has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of Bald Hills Wind Farm Pty Ltd, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Power denies Tuki project a &#34;flop&#34;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind Power has denied claims Tuki Wind Farm has &#8220;flopped&#8221;, saying a decision on its future would be made at the end of the year.
Wind farm opposition group Spa Country Landscape Guardians member Christian Wild this week said the project had ended and had struggled to overcome strong community rejection.
&#8220;The project has been unable to gain momentum against increasing community opposition, protected landscapes and what has proven to be an insufficient wind resource at Stoney Rises, where the wind test .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Plan to keep wind farms 2km away from homes</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Glen Innes Severn Council has adopted a development control plan (DCP) for wind farms restricting the proximity of turbines to residences.
The move was the result of a growing interest in the area for wind borne technologies, currently highlighted by two major wind farm projects in the Glen Innes Local Government Area lodged with the Department of Planning.
The DCP was formally adopted at council’s ordinary meeting on May 22 and will help ensure council has some policy to control or guide .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#39;s over – Acciona pulls the plug on Molonglo Ridge</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In welcome news, Acciona have announced that they will not be proceeding with the Molonglo Ridge Industrial Wind Plant. A media release quietly slipped out by the company under embargo until 29 May 2008 confirmed what the community knew all along – that the project was not viable.
Stating the obvious, Acciona Managing Director, Brett Thomas said that the site did not meet their standards as appropriate development. This is hardly a surprise – the Molonglo Landscape Guardians (MLG) have consistently .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Company scraps wind farm plans</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for a large wind farm to be built along the Molonglo Ridge, south-east of Queanbeyan have been scrapped.
The company which had proposed building 60 wind turbines along the ridge announced its decision after an evaluation of the site over the past four years.
It released a statement saying the site would not meet its strict standards for appropriate development.
Community groups fighting the development are claiming victory.
Molonglo Landscape Guardian spokeswoman Wendy Bell says she is glad the battle is over.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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