Last night a Community consultation meeting was held in Burnie at UTAS. It was supposed to be an opportunity for landholders to ask questions and express concerns about the current proposal to construct 3000+ wind turbines in a total area of 114,530 hectares of prime agricultural land, native bush and wilderness. And things got heated right from the start.
The meeting itself was not advertised locally in media outlets, nor was there a letterbox leaflet letting residents know. At the venue there were NO SIGNS indicating where the meeting was being held. Luckily, most of us turned up early, as we suspected this would happen. The room booked for the event was completely inadequate, with chairs for only 35 people. More than 100 people turned up. Security concerns were expressed at the overcrowding, and despite the group's protests that we did not want to be separated, a small group went into an adjoining room where they attempted to follow proceedings on a large screen. Hopeless.
After a bland and uninformative power point presentation was eventually made, many intelligent and thoughtful questions and comments were posed to the organisers, most of which could not be answered satisfactorily. (more on that later).
This blog has been started to share information, as despite the Tasmanian Government's assurances that developments such as these are always made with extensive community consultation, there is very little information on the RECFIT or REZ website. (more on that later).
Should you have information that you think is relevant, please email noturbinestassie@gmail.com.
Cheers,
Blogman.
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