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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 15-May-2009 At 10:43:22 AM lacto

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Are you seriously saying that people wont go to the prom because of bald hill wind farm . On the same arguement surely you should pull down all those ugly power lines that criss cross the whole area and are responsible for thousands of bird deaths per year . How many people have stopped going to Arapiles or the Grampians because of the Chalcum ? Hills wind between Ararat and Beaufort . To me the only way viable wind farms should be stopped if the people opposing such development cut their energy consumption to equate to the amount that that development would produce . Do you really think 40,000 homes would commit to say limit their power intake to a maximum of say 1 kw per hour to stop one wind farm then another 40000 for the next one .Believe me primary producers face little ill effect from a turbine yet the financial benefits are huge and greatly improve the viability of their farms allowing more investment in their own enviroment . Every farmer I know has projects to improve his environment but limited funds stop most of this . Lake Bonney in se south australia i think is 5 by 10 km and has a 260 MW capacity . there is 300 km of such coast and is very close to the Major Connector from Portland to the Latrobe valley and the whole of the eastern seaboard grid with normal consumption up to 30,000MW hourly wind could readily replace a few coal fired plants