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posted by on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the wait,-do-they-want-more-complaints? dept.

Maybe the stampede didn't happen because kangaroos and koalas don't stampede?

National Wind Farm Commissioner, Andrew Dyer, has just released his much anticipated first annual report.

In its first year of operation until the end of 2016, the National Wind Farm Commissioner says his office received:

  • 46 complaints relating to nine operating wind farms (there were 76 operational wind farms in Australian[sic] in 2015)
  • 42 complaints relating to 19 proposed wind farms
  • two complaints that did not specify a wind farm.

The commissioner's office closed 67 or these 90 complaints, with the remaining 23 complaints still in process.

Of the 67 now-closed complaints, the office closed 31 because the complainant did not progress their complaint. This suggests these complaints were minor.

The office closed the file on another 32 after it sent complainants more information about their complaints.

This leaves only four, which the report describes two as being settled after negotiations between the parties, and two given the ambiguous category of "other".

The article also mentions that half of the 25,000 complaints about noise at Heathrow airport were submitted by 10 people.


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  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:27PM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:27PM (#491380)

    Heathrow. Which state is that in? NSW?

    Don't know, it must be a small place because I've never heard of it. But there ARE a lot of places in Britain and the US that have the same names as Australian towns, so the one woth the airport must just be another.

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