NSW:NSW residents could veto wind farms

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2011
NSW:NSW residents could veto wind farms

People living within two kilometres of proposed wind farms will have the right to veto
them, under a NSW government proposal.

Planning and Infrastructure Minister BRAD HAZZARD says NSW remains committed to being
part of the federal government's 20 per cent renewable energy target by 2020, despite
proposing what he's described as the world's toughest wind farm guidelines.

Under the proposal, a company wanting to set up a wind farm in an area where landowner
consent has not been given will have to go to an independent regional planning panel if
there is community opposition.

MR HAZZARD says it means 100 per cent of neighbours will be have to be happy for the
wind farm to go ahead.

But the NSW Greens say the proposal will kill off the wind generation sector in favour
of coal seam gas as a solution to the state's future energy needs.

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KEYWORD: WIND NSW (SYDNEY)

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