Idiotic Australians turn down wind farm

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Dajm · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 28

Well, in any case they have a good reason. Save the earth, save the parrots! Smile

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UIUCstudent01 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 894

One is alot when there only 99 to 200....
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The only parrots worth talking about in this story are the galahs.

Aussies will understand.

untothislast

This is the government of John Howard we're talking about. Check out its record for sanctioning logging and woodchipping in environmentally sensitive areas, if you want to see some really fetid environmental credentials - plus its solid and irresponsible support for the US' stance on CO2 emissions.

The only idiots here, are those who actually believe the decision was reached in order to protect a species of rare parrot, rather than suppress competition against the oil and coal industries. This guy would sell toasted baby koalas on a stick, if he thought there was a dollar in it.

ubercynicmeister

I couldn't see the article, but I'm guessing from the comments that the reason for the refusal of the project was some type of parrot was going to be threatened.

Yeah, riiiight.

We really are a BANANA Republic, y'know: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.

In the case of "windfarms" I'm not impressed with the modern versions, as (I'm told) the turbine cannot turn into the wind, but is fixed in one direction.

C'mon, the Dutch had their windmills being able to turn into the wind and that was hundreds of years ago. Until the modern wind-farm proponents solve THAT problem, I will not be a supporter of wind-farms, sorry.
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Storm brews over wind farm fears

TWO more wind farms in Victoria, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, could be stopped because of their impact on rare bird species.

The news follows federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell's decision to halt a $220 million wind farm at Bald Hills, in South Gippsland, because it could kill "up to one" orange-bellied parrot a year.

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SHiFTY · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 27, 2005 Posts: 171

The Australian Govt is clearly in bed with the coal companies... These things only turn at 20 RPM or so, hardly much of a threat to birds.

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