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windfarms and Barren Grounds

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Subject: windfarms and Barren Grounds
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:36:07 +1000
I think you meant global dimming. I believe you Victorians are maintaining the Hazelwood power plant to protect the OBPs' eyesight from harmful UV rays.

Laurie

On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at 10:38  AM, Bill Stent wrote:

 The scale of turbine visiblity dwarfs that of powerstations.

Are you kidding?

I'm not all that familiar with facilities in NSW but here in Victoria
you only have to drive down the Princess Highway through the Latrobe
Valley to see what a mess the coal mining area is.  There are smoke
stacks, huge open-cut mines, steam cooling towers, etc.  The haze from
the coal burning casts a pall that drifts many kilometres downrange, not
to mention the hole in the ozone layer.

On a quiet day you can hear the OBPs and bats coughing.

Bill



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