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Rules of thumb when faced with a wind farm next door
1. Seek legal advice
- It is important to seek experienced, independent legal advice.
- To retain your legal rights – DON’T sign anything.
2. Record keeping
- Record keeping is important. Get baseline information: views/noise/soil – before and after wind farm.
- Be polite and assertive when engaging with the wind farm.
- Keep a file on all communications and correspondence.
- Save emails, letters, photos, videos and community information to a backup external hard drive.
3. Objective evidence
- If relevant, engage a consultant to obtain soil tests.
- If relevant, engage a consultant to test primary produce.
- If relevant, engage a consultant to test for noise, including low-frequency noise and vibration.
4. Subjective evidence
- Keep a diary.
- Record accurate lived experience evidence in a diary – ensure the date and time of the incident or event are correct.
- Take photos and videos
- Send in complaints to the wind farm, the local council, the EPA, Energy Safety Regulator, AEIC and other regulators
- Always use the word “complaint” or “official complaint” so it is recorded as a complaint and not as a comment.
- Operators try to reduce the number of complaints by filing them as comments.
- It is important for complaints to be corroborated by others.
5. Hypersensitivity
- Operators like to show that complainants are “hypersensitive” and that the average normal person is not impacted.
- It is important for complaints to be corroborated by others.
6. Be polite and assertive, not combative and threatening;
- Everything the neighbour does and says may be used against them in any lawsuit.
- Be truthful, cooperative, polite and assertive.
- And it’s ok to ask questions.
7. Always be ethical with good intentions
- They will be creating a dirt file on you.
- Be careful with what you say, write or post.
- It’s ok to be human, just be a smart, polite and assertive one.
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