LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME



[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]

Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

Get weekly updates
RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Stripe

Donate via Paypal

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Save a vision 

Last weekend nearly 1000 people flocked to Beaufort to visit Mawallok, one of Australia’s most historically important and beautiful gardens. Mawallok was designed by Australia’s 19th century master landscaper William Guilfoyle. With its marvellous views of distant Mount Cole, the garden is unmistakably Australian and of enormous cultural and historical significance.

Consistent sympathetic ownership has ensured that the garden’s design and planting are of the highest possible quality so that the landscape remains faithful to Guilfoyle’s initial concept.

Like many visitors, we were appalled to learn that this cultural icon is to be desecrated by the erection of numerous wind turbines. The scale and siting of the turbines will destroy Guilfoyle’s design and spoil a rare example of a harmonious combination of the natural and the introduced. While we recognise the need to explore alternative energy sources, it seems unnecessary to destroy a national cultural jewel, particularly as numerous other sites are equally suited to the purposes of wind power generation.

Tamie Fraser, president, and Neil Robertson, chief executive, Australia’s Open Garden Scheme, New Gisborne

The Age

23 October 2007

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Contributions
   Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)
Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI M TG TS G Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook Wind Watch on Linked In

Wind Watch on Mastodon Wind Watch on Truth Social

Wind Watch on Gab Wind Watch on Bluesky