Just days after the AMA blamed community anxiety about wind farms on unsubstantiated health claims, the O'Farrell government has created a new set of challenges for the industry. By making it easier for the opponents of wind farms to frustrate development applications in the court process, the renewable energy industry will be locked into expensive battles that will delay and destroy many excellent projects, according to Greens MP John Kaye.
("Wind farms in NSW to face more red tape", Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2014, http://j.mp/smh140321)
Dr Kaye said, "The O'Farrell government has worked out yet another way to stymie the development of the most cost effective form of renewable energy in NSW.
"This time it consists of transferring existing development applications into a different assessment regime where they will be even more vulnerable to the small but well-funded and well-organised wind hysteria groups.
Wind industry given the Cinderella treatment – again.
