Polwarth MP rejects coal-seam gas ban

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   Ben Courtice May 14, 2012

   It’s all very well to call out Labor’s hypocrisy, which is in the past, but what about Mr Mulder’s government’s attitude to wind farms vs CSG?

   I wish wind farm development applications could be dealt with “on an individual basis” – they already have some of the strictest noise regulation in the world to govern turbine siting in Victoria.

   If some windfarm neighbours are getting too much noise, you can turn a turbine off at night, or even remove it in the worst case, and that’s the end of the story (or buy the property, as sometimes happens).

   But once aquifers are damaged and polluted, who knows how to fix them? And over how many neighbour’s groundwater will the problem spread? Answer that question seriously, and you might get a sense of some very current hypocrisy.

   Ben Courtice
   Renewable energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth

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