LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Windfarm opponents take to the street 

Opponents of a windfarm proposed for the Waterloo Range west of Glen Innes will be holding an information street stall on Saturday morning as part of an ongoing campaign to stop the development.

Glen Innes Landscape Guardians Inc will be setting up a stall outside Schafer’s Newsagency “to try and better inform people about the impact on the development not just on the Furracabad and Matheson valleys, but the town of Glen Innes as well,” group spokesperson Suzanne McAlary said.

“If people then feel a bit more informed, they can then sign a petition against the development.”

She said the inaugural meeting of the group on Tuesday night attracted 20 local landholders, who all signed up to be members of the group.

“There was unanimous concern about the visual effect of the windfarm, the noise of turbine, the effect of flickering and shade as well as damage to the environment,” she said.

Meanwhile Glen Innes Severn Council acting town planner Tamai Davidson said because council was not the conesent authority it was not in its jurisdiction to notify landholders in the area about the proposal.

The Examiner contacted the NSW Department of Planning regarding their policy on notifying neighbours but was unable to get a response before publication. The Examiner understands that some adjoining landholders who live eleswhere only learnt about the proposal in the past fortnight.

The five landholders on whose properties the turbines will be built – John Bower, Robert Dulhunty, Alan Fletcher, Damian Hartmann and Rex Sheedy – were this week approached by the Examiner to respond to concerns raised by Glen Innes Landscape Guardians Inc. A statement is expected to be made next week.

Tim Hughes and Naomi Davidson

Glen Innes Examiner

20 March 2008

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon