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The No TasWind Farm Group, which has now hired the services of a mainland PR company to help it fight the $2 billion proposal, collected 434 signatures on its petition which has been presented to the King Island Council.
An independent body, appointed by the Government to speak on behalf of regional South Australians, has reported that farmers with land near wind-driven power stations are facing lower profits and falling land values.
China's Longyuan group walks away from Boco Rock wind farm bid
April 18, 2013 by Gillian Tan in Wall Street Journal
April 18, 2013 by Gillian Tan in Wall Street Journal
Competition for a stake in an Australian wind farm is thinning after a key shortlisted party pulled its interest.
China Longyuan Power Group would not submit a final offer in an auction for a stake in Boco Rock Wind Farm, a person familiar with the matter said.
Wind farm 'handball' claim as councils fear big expense over compliance
April 15, 2013 by Neelima Choahan in The Courier
April 15, 2013 by Neelima Choahan in The Courier
Seven councils, including Moorabool, Pyrenees and Golden Plain Shire, have asked the Planning Minister Matthew Guy to reconsider a bill that some say could cost ratepayers millions of dollars.
Moorabool mayor Pat Toohey said the bill, which is to be introduced to the Upper House on Monday, sought to overhaul the administration and enforcing of wind farm permits.
I love them, but we can't have them everywhere: Premier on wind farms
April 12, 2013 by Tom Arup in The Border Mail
April 12, 2013 by Tom Arup in The Border Mail
Premier Denis Napthine has declared his personal love for wind turbines, but says his government's restrictions to where they can be built won't change.
Dr Napthine on Friday launched the Macarthur wind farm in Victoria's south-west, the largest wind energy project in the southern hemisphere.
Loss of values for properties close to wind farms could force a rise in rates to maintain Council revenue.
Cr. Malcolm Barlow made this claim in a presentation to last meeting of Upper Lachlan Council.
Country's biggest wind farm rejected by District Council of Yorke Peninsula
March 28, 2013 in Adelaide Now
March 28, 2013 in Adelaide Now
The District Council of Yorke Peninsula has unanimously rejected a development application to build a $1.3 billion wind farm in the region.
School declines donation from wind farm company
March 26, 2013 by Sharnie Kim and Charlie McKillop in ABC News
March 26, 2013 by Sharnie Kim and Charlie McKillop in ABC News
EQ regional spokesman Graham Fuller says state schools "are places for teaching and learning".
"They are not to be seen as advocates or otherwise for development applications, individual products, services or commercial enterprise," he said in a statement.
A large scale wind farm proposed for the tiny Tasmanian island of King Island is dividing the local community. Hydro Tasmania is proposing to build a 600-megawatt which is expected to take up at least 12 to 15 per cent of the island.
The owner of WA's second-biggest wind farm has confirmed it is considering offloading the asset in a bid to cut its bulging $1 billion debt mountain. It gave no details about the fate of its only WA asset, the 90 megawatt wind farm near Walkaway 30km south-east of Geraldton.
Wind farm submission warns of ‘extreme safety dangers' on roads
March 4, 2013 by Robyn Murray in Mudgee Guardian
March 4, 2013 by Robyn Murray in Mudgee Guardian
Mid-Western Regional Council is expected to formally object to the Crudine Ridge Wind Farm development on the grounds that the current road network is incapable of carrying traffic expected during construction of the towers.
A proposed 220-turbine wind farm three kilometres outside Penshurst caused heated debate at Moyne Shire Council this week.
Project objector Keith Staff, of Penshurst, made an angry submission to council on Tuesday afternoon, claiming the wind farm was too close to the community.
Ninety-two percent of SA's peak-demand electricity therefore comes from conventional coal and gas generators.
"We've got more than 1000 megawatts of installed wind power sitting uselessly, their blades not turning, when demand is at its greatest," committee chair David Ridgway said.
The Development Assessment Commission has received all oral and written submissions for and against the Keyneton Wind Farm and will deliberate for the two months on whether the wind farm should, or should not, go ahead.
Acciona Energy scraps $70m Allendale wind farm project, says it's unviable
February 20, 2013 by Julian Swallow in Adelaide Now
February 20, 2013 by Julian Swallow in Adelaide Now
The international infrastructure and energy company said it had conducted several years of detailed investigations into the proposed 46 turbine wind farm, about two km's east of Allendale, and had come to the decision that the project's economics did not stack up.
Wind planning in Victoria is in turmoil with a case before Victoria's planning tribunal revealing explosive telephone calls and emails between a senior government planning official and lawyers for a wind farm developer.
Farmers Assoc wind farm guide a farce
January 29, 2013 in Press Release by Member for Hume Alby Schultz MP
January 29, 2013 in Press Release by Member for Hume Alby Schultz MP
The NSW Farmers Association's first wind farm guide supposedly to help farmers make informed choices on whether to host wind turbines is an irresponsible act of partisan pro wind turbine propaganda. Lack of forensic research background on wind turbines and their impact on communities, fire fighting, neighbours of host farmers, gag clauses, litigation issues and health to name but a few is not just an oversight it is downright amateurish and lazy incompetence.
A controversial wind farm bid is under fire from dozens of local firefighters who say it could have disastrous consequences.
Residents of Whiteheads Creek, east of Seymour, have dug in with Mitchell Shire Council to battle the $100 million Cherry Tree Wind Farm project in a 12-day VCAT hearing.
Wind farm consents validity questioned by opponents
January 23, 2013 by Janine Rankin in Manawatu Standard
January 23, 2013 by Janine Rankin in Manawatu Standard
The validity of consents allowing Turitea Wind Farm to be built near Palmerston North has been challenged.
Opponents Paul Stichbury and John Adams said board of inquiry chairwoman Shonagh Kenderdine was no longer a judge when the decision was issued. ..."She had no legal authority as a judge from that point," he said.