Thankyou Evan.
Why should the local Victorians not oppose a wind farm
in their beloved landscape?
I know Capertee well, the Valley is rural but visually
unpolluted and a decidedly beautiful Australian Landscape, as opposed to the
Great Australian Ugliness, of which windfarms are an extension. Who would
favour a windfarm on top of the Capertee escarpments? There's plenty of wind up
there, and if you think that the commercial protaganists of windfarms haven't,
looked at those escarpments, and aren't still looking, think again.
The Wallerawang powerstation you refer to is a long
way from Capertee Valley, and set in a relatively indifferent landscape. It
also has a large dam associated with it, hosting many birds from Sea-eagles and
Great Crested Grebes down.
The suggestion that because it and Lithgow are
already there doesn't mean that it's OK to have windfarms scattered over
really attractive land. The scale of turbine visiblity dwarfs that of
powerstations.
Wind turbines have sprung up in what once looked like
pristine Blue Mountains National Park, visible south of the Great Western
Highway from the last corner before Bowenfels (Lithgow), a sight to bring tears
to the eye of any environmentalist. These are obvious because they are white
(or silver) against the forested background of the mountains, not because they
are protruding above the horizon. Maybe they could paint them green so that
they would be less apparent.
Many developments can be and are hidden, but wind
turbines are appallingly intrusive and inescapable to the eye from k's away.
Do the pro-windmillers have a hidden agenda or do they
just like the look of wind turbines? Is this discussion about OBPs, aesthetics,
or the apparent inconsistency of the Federal Government? How many kilowatts is
an OBP worth?
Cheers
Michael
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