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"When sheep and cattle farmer Lindsay Marriott sat before the Senate committee
on information integrity on climate and energy, he wasn’t there to talk theory.
He was there to describe, in unvarnished terms, what gross misinformation about
wind farms looks like when it arrives in a small regional community – and what
it costs the people who live there.
Marriott and his wife moved with their three young children to their South
Gippsland farm in 1983. The property was, as he told senators, “incredibly
run-down,” with “some hills on it that were no good for anything.”
Two decades later he was approached by a small developer from Melbourne about
hosting turbines. But when the Bald Hills Wind Farm was first proposed, “the
community got ripped apart.”
“I went through a pretty intensive anti movement 20 years ago,” he said. “Anti
programs can’t be happy. They demand unhappiness, and they demand anger, and
the anger develops into hatred and they can inspire people that otherwise would
never think of doing the things they did.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
