Comments on: Bob Hawke says “cheese” with some smiling former assassins http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rohan http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44851 Rohan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:16:57 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44851 Terrible. Far better for there to be an open-cut coal mine there. Terrible. Far better for there to be an open-cut coal mine there.

]]> By: AR http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44794 AR Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24:32 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44794 Re the new Oz layout - vast, empty, white areas do not a newspaper make. Re the new Oz layout - vast, empty, white areas do not a newspaper make.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44769 paddy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:29:21 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44769 It's a never ending source of amazement to me, that so many people find wind towers so ugly. To me, they're like giant installation sculptures and are really quite beautiful. But I can certainly understand that not everyone shares my taste. I also sometimes ponder, as to whether the sight of them makes some people uneasy, because they're such a striking image that's intimately associated with climate change. Disclaimer: I live about three Km from a wind farm, and whenever I look out my kitchen window and see those giant blades turning on the horizon, it lifts my spirits and gives me some faint hope for the future. [I can’t find Richard’s “breakfast media wrap”any more. I am missing it in the morning.] Simone, he's continued the media wrap over on his blog. try here. http://politicalowl.blogspot.com/ It’s a never ending source of amazement to me, that so many people find wind towers so ugly.
To me, they’re like giant installation sculptures and are really quite beautiful.
But I can certainly understand that not everyone shares my taste.

I also sometimes ponder, as to whether the sight of them makes some people uneasy, because they’re such a striking image that’s intimately associated with climate change.

Disclaimer:
I live about three Km from a wind farm, and whenever I look out my kitchen window and see those giant blades turning on the horizon, it lifts my spirits and gives me some faint hope for the future.

I can’t find Richard’s “breakfast media wrap”any more. I am missing it in the morning.

Simone, he’s continued the media wrap over on his blog. try here.
http://politicalowl.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Simone Rosenberg http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44747 Simone Rosenberg Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:33:36 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44747 Help!!! I can't find Richard's "breakfast media wrap"any more. I am missing it in the morning. Help!!!
I can’t find Richard’s “breakfast media wrap”any more. I am missing it in the morning.

]]> By: Brendon Jarrett http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44731 Brendon Jarrett Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:33:17 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44731 The generators on Cape Nelson and Cape Bridgewater near Portland have destroyed outstanding landscapes which were among the first in the state to be 'classified' by the National Trust of Australia (Vic.). Only in Australia. In Denmark, which has a population about the same as Victoria's but a coastline many times longer and vast experience with wind turbines, they value their landscapes. Under national planning constraints a 3 kilometre wide exclusion zone applies along the whole length of the Danish coast although nowhere can that coast hold a candle to the dramatic landscapes around the Portland peninsula. The five week VCAT hearings held prior to the Portland Wind Energy Project were a complete waste of time as the Bracks government in Victoria had already decided that the project would go ahead - despite the fact that the Minister for Planning had not seen the capes before the announcement was made that the original proposal would proceed with some minuscule changes. Nothing new in that either. The managing director of Pacific Hydro had not seen Cape Bridgewater before announcing his company's intentions. In my opinion this was sheer greed. There were other commercially viable sites in the near region (Codrington, for instance, was up and running without compromising a high value scenic coastline) that could have been used instead of some of the state's most valuable sea and landscapes. The generators on Cape Nelson and Cape Bridgewater near Portland have destroyed outstanding landscapes which were among the first in the state to be ‘classified’ by the National Trust of Australia (Vic.). Only in Australia. In Denmark, which has a population about the same as Victoria’s but a coastline many times longer and vast experience with wind turbines, they value their landscapes. Under national planning constraints a 3 kilometre wide exclusion zone applies along the whole length of the Danish coast although nowhere can that coast hold a candle to the dramatic landscapes around the Portland peninsula. The five week VCAT hearings held prior to the Portland Wind Energy Project were a complete waste of time as the Bracks government in Victoria had already decided that the project would go ahead - despite the fact that the Minister for Planning had not seen the capes before the announcement was made that the original proposal would proceed with some minuscule changes. Nothing new in that either. The managing director of Pacific Hydro had not seen Cape Bridgewater before announcing his company’s intentions. In my opinion this was sheer greed. There were other commercially viable sites in the near region (Codrington, for instance, was up and running without compromising a high value scenic coastline) that could have been used instead of some of the state’s most valuable sea and landscapes.

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44723 meski Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:03:25 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-40/#comment-44723 The Environment Court says it would be better for the Lammermoor Range tobe submerged, then? (no idea what its height above sealevel is :) The Environment Court says it would be better for the Lammermoor Range tobe submerged, then? (no idea what its height above sealevel is :)

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