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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 3-Sep-2009 At 9:05:30 AM lacto

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Exactly how many of the objectors to your wind farm are the farmers or how many of them are lifestylers hobby farms who dont have to make a living from their land but consider their view and proximity to farms to be their right to preserve. Portland grew because of the aluminium smelter and the people wanted rural lifestyles and then object to wind farms that supply the product that enables them to live there . The portland /west coast of vic plus south east s.a . have a ready market for all the wind power they can produce at portland . This save the power having to be transported hundreds of km from the latrobe valley with its transmission losses . Ballarat can consume all the power produced near it etc. The problem is pete everyone wants to be able to consume power and expect that it will be produced but not in their back yard. Why dont we hear of all these complaints from europe where there is huge wind farm development and years to be able to prove the "noise " effect. I appealed against a house permit for a 2 h lot on my boundary as the site really is unsuited for a house but was over ruled but one of the conditions was that the owner acknowledged that they were moving into an agricultural area and normal farm practices would continue etc. .Well if normal rainfall ever returns his house will certainly become his castle when the hole he built his house ( up 800 mm above the ground ) fills with water he'll have his filled moat as well . So far we have had problems with him dumping noxious weed off his place onto ours, complaints about my fence which is actually our fence , tractors working at night , animals making too much noise and I am certain when the clover flowers this spring the overpowering smell. plus his kids seem to think our farm is their playground. I can just imagine the uproar if I wanted to put a wind turbine up.