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Case study 2.3: Wind farm developments (p. 54)
Legal:
For other cases involving disputed wind farm developments, see: Taralga Landscape Guardians v Minister for Planning (2007) 161 LGERA 1; Perry v Hepburn Shire Council (2007) 154 LGERA 182.
Policy:
For more information on the Bald Hills wind farm controversy, see see Rebecca Nelson and Bethany Sharman, ‘More than tilting at windmills: a bird’s eye view of a bio-offsets scheme under the EPBC Act’ (2007) 24(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 17.
For more information on the ‘environment’ protected by the EPBC Act, see Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel, ‘The EPBC Act 1999 (Cth): The Dark Sides of Virtue’ (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 106.
For more information on a possible ‘greenhouse gas trigger’ in the EPBC Act, see Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel, ‘The EPBC Act 1999 (Cth): The Dark Sides of Virtue’ (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 106 at 116-7. See also Australian Labor Party, National Platform and Constitution 2007, Chapter 9, [24], and Australian Labor Party, Draft National Platform and Constitution 2009, Chapter 9, [67].
Science:
For more information on the merits of wind farms, visit the Australian Wind Energy Association website (www.auswind.org) and the Clean Energy Council website (www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au).
See also the CSIRO website, with a section devoted to renewable and wind energy: www.csiro.au.
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