The Tasmanian wind power company, Roaring 40s, says a wind turbine at its Woolnorth farm injured a wedge-tailed eagle two weeks ago. The eagle's wing was damaged and it had to be put down by a vet.

Under questioning in parliament, Senator Campbell said his department was "wrong" when it told him in March this year that blocking the Bald Hills windfarm would have ramifications for coastal development. "One wind farm proposal every fortnight has passed through the same process, so it can hardly be seen as a threat to wind power development."

THE Bald Hills wind farm proposal that Environment Minister Ian Campbell has agreed to reconsider will be identical - in size and location - to the project he has already scuttled. However, the company behind the contentious 52-turbine wind farm in Victoria's South Gippsland will come up with a survival strategy in a bid to allay Senator Campbell's concerns over the fate of the orange-bellied parrot.

ANOTHER wedge-tailed eagle has died after being found injured on a wind farm in north-western Tasmania. The bird was put down last week after being injured at Woolnorth wind farm in the far North-West. The eagle, an endangered Tasmanian sub-species recognised as the largest bird of prey in the nation, is thought to have collided with a turbine.

THE company behind the wind farm blocked by Environment Minister Ian Campbell because of the orange-bellied parrot has abandoned a $50 million wind project near the Victorian regional centre of Ballarat. The move came as bird experts yesterday called for the scaling back of new wind farms in Tasmania after it was revealed that three wedge-tailed eagles had been killed after hitting turbines in recent months.

A WOOLGROWER fears he will be left with stressed sheep, bankruptcy and damaged birdlife if one of Victoria's biggest wind farms is built.

The Federal Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, has dismissed claims he ignored advice from senior members of his department when he vetoed a windfarm project in Victoria's Gippsland region.

A submission to list the orange-bellied parrot as critically endangered, could put an end to wind farms in Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria.

A joint hearings panel made up of Waitomo District Council and Environment Waikato councillors will this week consider the $225 million plan against a Waitomo District Council officers' report and a Conservation Department submission recommending it is turned down because turbine blades could kill birds - including nationally endangered indigenous species.

Birds Tasmania chairman Eric Woehler said two wedge-tailed eagles had been killed at the Woolnorth wind farm in the state's north-west in the past two weeks.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Ian Campbell's campaign against unpopular wind farms will include a national code giving him new powers to veto any project facing community opposition.

Minister Ian Campbell last night seized on the gory death of an endangered wedge-tailed eagle after it collided with a turbine, vowing to push ahead with plans to strengthen his powers to veto wind farms.

The path of a threatened bird will be mapped as opposition to a big wind farm near Macarthur in south-west Victoria continues.

A TASMANIAN wind farm is operating with a licence to kill up to six endangered orange-bellied parrots every two years — the same birds that the Federal Government last week declared must be saved at all costs.

THE wind farm debate took a new course last week when the Federal Environment Minister disallowed a Victorian wind farm because of the presence of an endangered bird.

TWO days into the 2004 federal election campaign, Ian Campbell was on the telephone with a message for voters in the marginal Victorian seat of McMillan.

IT'S blowing a Gippsland gale. The half-dozen wind turbines that flick long fingers above the seaward horizon near Dalyston are cartwheeling with a will, slipping in and out of view between the rain squalls that blow like sheets of hard, grey mist across the tawny paddocks.

A new report into the collective impact of wind farms on some of Australia’s threatened and migratory bird species warns of threats posed by coastal wind farms to the long-term survival of the threatened Orange-bellied Parrot, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell said today.

The Bracks Government has attacked as "blatantly political", a Federal Government decision to block a controversial 52-turbine wind farm plan on Victoria's south-east coast.

The federal government has blocked a wind farm proposal on Victoria's south-east coast after a report found the project would threaten an already endangered parrot species.