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Baillieu pledges wind-farm ban
LIBERAL leader Ted Baillieu has taken aim at the wind-power industry, saying wind farms divide rural communities and pledging a moratorium on new wind farms in Victoria.
Mr Baillieu also announced large tracts of the state would become no-go zones for wind farms under a Liberal government and he wants to give sole planning approval for the turbines to local councils.
July 27, 2006
in The Australian
LIBERAL leader Ted Baillieu has taken aim at the wind-power industry, saying wind farms divide rural communities and pledging a moratorium on new wind farms in Victoria.
Mr Baillieu also announced large tracts of the state would become no-go zones for wind farms under a Liberal government and he wants to give sole planning approval for the turbines to local councils.
His crackdown on wind farms was launched today as part of his rural policy, which also outlined plans to expand the kangaroo meat industry.
The Liberal leader used an address to the Rural Press Club to launch his policy... [continue via Web link]
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