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Turbines a windfall for some, hell for others
Credit: Miranda Devine, From: Sunday Herald Sun, www.heraldsun.com.au 18 December 2011 ~~
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The rush of government subsidies for renewable energy has many victims. There is the electricity consumer facing soaring prices.
And there are the victims of industrial wind, residents of once bucolic settings who are suffering poor health, declining property prices and neighbourhood enmities as flim-flam wind industry salesmen prowl the countryside.
Residents complain their way of life is being destroyed by Big Wind lured by the Gillard Government’s carbon tax regime. Wind is a key plank of the Government’s $13 billion plan to produce 20 per cent of the nation’s power from renewables by 2020.
With mandatory renewable energy targets and so much money on offer, wind is booming, despite mounting evidence it is inefficient, costly and does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But the residents of Blayney in NSW have decided to strike back. Through cake sales and raffles they raised the money for Freedom of Information reports and specialist acoustic engineers to compile a damning dossier of treachery, deception and inaction from governments and the wind industry. It also includes 61 submissions from residents all over Australia driven mad by shadow flicker and low-frequency noise from the turbines in their midst.
Tomorrow, 15 Blayney residents will drive to Sydney and deliver the 700-page document to the O’Farrell Government.
“It makes a compelling case to halt the Flyers Creek wind farm southwest of Blayney,” says its author, Dr Allan Watts, a 69-year-old rural GP from Carcoar.
“It details serious flaws in the project’s environmental assessment, highlights a lack of noise controls, and uncovers back-channel communications between wind farm developers and NSW planning bureaucrats.”
At least in Victoria, the Baillieu Government has imposed restrictions, including a 2km buffer zone for turbines near homes.
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