Comments on: New Zealand Environment Court Says No to Huge Wind Farm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:14:00 +0000

Customers pay for all transmission lines from any type of electric supply. Now they can be happy to also pay for endless lines of coal cars and trucks delivering health destroying coal to the dirty power plants they seem to prefer. Of course bribery from fossil fuel interests already have everyone’s money so they can pay off officials. This is a stupid move for the citizens.

By: wind4me

wind4me — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:56:26 +0000

luckily, New Zealand does NOT rely on Coal like the USA……to turn down a Wind Farm in the Rockies (given thousands of miles of NOTHING) is just a vote for coal and Colorado has 83% Coal Power!

By: wind4me

wind4me — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:56:00 +0000

luckily, New Zealand does NOT rely on Coal like the USA……to turn down a Wind Farm in the Rockies (given thousands of miles of NOTHING) is just a vote for coal and Colorado has 83% Coal Power!

By: wind4me

wind4me — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:56:00 +0000

luckily, New Zealand does NOT rely on Coal like the USA……to turn down a Wind Farm in the Rockies (given thousands of miles of NOTHING) is just a vote for coal and Colorado has 83% Coal Power!

By: Bad Eddie

Bad Eddie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:29 +0000

People need to take the responsibility of generating their own power. There are many per unit wind generators on the market. I believe home sized units will be the future of wind generation. These would be no more unsightly than, say, a satellite dish. The people will need incentives, however.

By: Bad Eddie

Bad Eddie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:00 +0000

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:59:23 +0000

“visual polution” – give me a break! On my priorities list, visual polution (which is highly subjective of-course), comes last. I’m actually woried more about pollution that is going to damage my health or wider environment as as apposed to damaging my sensitive fashion sense.

If anyone out there in the world would like to boycott the NIMBY’s against wind generation, you can start by not buying Graham Sydney artwork or prints. He is a high profile oppontent of this wind farm. As you can see by his artwork, he LIKES desert landscapes, so climate warming works in his favour.

Also – give Anton Oliver the cold shoulder if you see him (ex-All Black player and Wind Generation NIMBY).

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Also – give Anton Oliver the cold shoulder if you see him (ex-All Black player and Wind Generation NIMBY).

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Also – give Anton Oliver the cold shoulder if you see him (ex-All Black player and Wind Generation NIMBY).

By: Poppy

Poppy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:38:23 +0000

Given the location, It is not surprising that the commissioners were reluctant to have it spoiled by turbines and roading. The commission has also indicated that they were not satisfied that the national economics were sound given that the consumer would have to pay for transmission, backup generation and other costs that the windfarm imposes on the electricity system. They were quite right to point this out and it is a problem for the proponents of wind energy to solve.

This is a win for the consumer as well as people who care about visual polution.