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December 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mr Hazzard said the aim had been to strike a balance between residents’ concerns and wind power companies, and he expected neither to be satisfied.
”No one can win completely on this,” he said. The two-kilometre setback was meant to encourage wind farm developers to consult the community, he said.
Mr Hazzard denied the government had given undue weight to the views of people who believed the low-level noise and vibrations from wind farms had health effects and said the government was simply applying ”the precautionary principle”.
”The jury is still out on health issues, very much so,” he said. ”But we listened to everybody.”
A series of peer-reviewed studies has found no evidence that low-level sound from wind farms makes people ill.
Some people campaigning against wind farms believe evidence of stress and illness attributable to wind farms will be uncovered in the next few years.
Opposition to wind farm proposals is led by residents but their campaigns have received support from climate change sceptics, who believe wind turbines are an unnecessary alternative to coal-fired electricity.
A wind industry body, the Clean Energy Council, said it would examine the details of the new proposal but it was confident most wind farm operators would be capable of working within the new guidelines.
”The wind industry in Australia already faces some of the strictest development guidelines anywhere in the world,” said the director, Kane Thornton. ”How well it can adapt to these rules will depend on how they are applied in practice – and that remains to be seen.”
The opposition spokesman on the environment, Luke Foley, said the draft law meant NSW would miss out on billions of dollars in investment and regional jobs. ”Victoria has already seen the industry pack up and leave the state after their restrictive policy was implemented and we will risk the same loss of jobs and investment here in NSW.”
The Greens said discouraging wind power investment would mean the promotion of coal seam gas. ”NSW is abandoning the most cost-effective option for reducing its carbon footprint, which in effect means it is giving the green light for coal seam gas projects across the state,” said the planning spokesman, David Shoebridge.
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