Apparently next Monday, 19 December, the NSW Cabinet will be debating planning guidelines for wind farms. We urge you to write or call immediately to share your views about wind farms.
While we need reasonable guidelines to ensure transparency and intelligent installation, there are those in the Government who would like to ban wind generation throughout NSW. It is important to flood the government with support for appropriate guidelines that ensure wind farms play a significant role in the generation of renewable energy for NSW. Wind gives the biggest bang for the buck of any proven renewable energy.
The people most important to contact are:
Brad Hazzard, Planning Minister: 02) 9981 1111; office@hazzard.minister.nsw.gov.au
Andrew Stoner, Deputy Premier and head of the Nationals: 02) 6562 6190; office@deputypremier.nsw.gov.au
Mike Baird, Treasurer: 02) 9976 2773; office@treasurer.nsw.gov.au
Barry O’Farrell, Premier: 02) 9487 8588; office@premier.nsw.gov.au
It is also helpful to send a note to our representative: Richard Torbay; northerntablelands@parliament.nsw.gov.au
A few points you might want to make:
– NSW stands to gain $10.4 billion of new investment from wind power in coming years (much of it on the Tablelands).
– Wind power creates new jobs and economic opportunity for regional NSW
– Investing in wind power helps to manage rising power prices. Wind generation is the cheapest proven way to create renewable energy.
– Wind will play an important role in meeting the NSW government’s election commitment to a 20% renewable energy target. Without wind, it is near impossible to reach this target. Each year NSW is using more and more energy. If we don’t generate our electricity from renewables we will need to build expensive new coal fired power stations or turn to nuclear energy. Both are unsustainable and increase our CO2 emissions.
Patsy Asch: Convenor of the SLA Energy Group
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