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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 28-Aug-2009 At 8:20:22 AM evanbb

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On 26/08/2009 pete05 wrote:
>Evan, both cape bridgewater and bald hills have been approved and are awaiting
>finance now.
Okay, but how about your statement that the only person to have knocked one back has been sacked? Seems a bit exaggerated to me.

>Engineers from the Ballarat university have confirmed the noise levels
>at Waubra,
No dispute on the noise levels. Of course turbines make noise. Everything that moves does.
>It places all legal liability for noise on the landholder which i find disturbing.
Sure, that sounds like a shit contract; but that is not a feature of wind farms. There are shit contracts everywhere, not related to wind farms too. People are greedy. read the fine print.
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>You say no protected areas will have turbines installed, and yes you would
>hope so, but wind power have a proposal at smeaton that was to cover 3
>volcanic cones of national significance that are all protected, which seems
>crazy but true. No wonder the community out there were outraged.

Again, if it is approved, it is not the fact that it's a wind farm, but because the approving officer broke the law. I don't agree with this, but it might happen. Be vigilant.