March 21, 2012
Australia, Noise, Regulations

Submission on Draft NSW Planning Guidelines – Wind Farms

Watts, Alan; and Watts, Colleen

SUMMARY

The “Draft NSW Planning Guidelines – Wind Farms” is a discussion paper only. Its inherent poor quality ensures this.

An examination of this document reveals little rigour, contradictions, omissions and escape clauses which would easily allow circumvention of the embarrassingly absent regulatory authority this document should contain.

Close examination of this document reveals several reoccurring and alarming aspects:

  1. The obvious lack of due diligence by parties responsible for the authorship of this document. This ensures criticism of these guidelines by any reasoned analysis.
  2. The obvious bias contained to ensure swift success of industrial wind turbine developments.

These Guidelines were developed to overcome the legal deficiencies which became apparent in the SA 2003 Planning Guidelines (used by the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure) following the appeal in the SA Supreme Court of the Quinn-AGL matter (see Section 2 (iv)).

Surprisingly very little has changed:

Download original document: “Submission on Draft NSW Planning Guidelines – Wind Farms [1]


URL to article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/submission-on-draft-nsw-planning-guidelines-wind-farms/


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[1] Submission on Draft NSW Planning Guidelines – Wind Farms: https://docs.wind-watch.org/Submission-draft-guidelines-AC-CJ-Watts.pdf