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Endangered species in new danger - from rotating blades at the third windfarm
Till now the developers have implied that it would be out of sight and (they hoped) out of mind. ...But this week we have discovered that the windfarm (if they get resource consent to build it) won't be so isolated after all. It will be "west of Brooklyn and south of Karori" so it will have many neighbours.
One of its biggest neighbours will be the Karori wildlife sanctuary, which is worried that native birds could be killed by the rotating blades of the Long Gully turbines.
August 19, 2009
in Wellington.Scoop
New information keeps being revealed about Long Gully, the third windfarm that's being planned for Wellington.
Till now the developers have implied that it would be out of sight and (they hoped) out of mind. They've described Long Gully as a "largely uninhabited area of marginal farmland ... in a relatively isolated location."
But this week we have discovered that the windfarm (if they get resource consent to build it) won't be so isolated after all. It will be "west of Brooklyn and south of Karori" so it will have many neighbours.
One of its biggest neighbours will be the Karori... [continue via Web link]
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