Windfarm finale (?)

["michael hunter" <>]

         In an article in last friday's Australian, which I read this
morning, Senator Campbell is quoted as saying that the Government's
"Mandatory Renewable Energy Target" of  2%  by 2010, including renewable and
low emission technolgies, has been reached, at a subsidy cost of a billion
dollars, that  the number of turbines in Australia is now 600, and that the
decision by wind-farm companies to shelve windfarms at Heemskirk in Tasmania
and Waterloo in SA were commercial decisions.
         By extrapolation, this suggests that without subsidising each
turbine by possibly a million dollars, the technology here is not
commercially viable. I'll check with the Minister as to the precise subsidy.
                                  Cheers
                                       Michael

Michael Hunter
Mulgoa Valley
50km west of Sydney Harbour Bridge


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