”We do probably see eye to eye with them on this and many issues, but this is a party position that we have finalised internally,” he said.
Premier Barry O’Farrell said in August it was his personal opinion that no new wind farms should be built in NSW, but it is understood their were divisions in cabinet about the issue.
Nationals MP and Roads Minister Duncan Gay said yesterday his anti-wind farm views were well known and said he hoped the outcome of yesterday’s meeting ”addresses the sins of the past”.
”I live at Crookwell, we’ve certainly come under the brunt of poor planning and lack of community consultation of wind farms in the past,” he said. ”It puts friends against friends, neighbours against neighbours.”
Federal Liberal MP Alby Schultz is also concerned about wind farms. He said incompetent NSW Government ministers who ignored his concerns about noisy wind farms had led him to campaign against his own party.
Mr Schultz, Member for Hume, which includes Crookwell, Yass and Goulburn, says he had gone against his own party because ”somebody has got to stand up for their constituents”.
with AAP
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