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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 bob_super on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:29PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:29PM (#491381)

    So... Aussie wind farms are training grounds for a secret weapon program, the Frighteningly Unstoppable Catapulted Koalas Extended-reach Doomsday?
    The whole point of a doomsday machine is that we have to know about it!

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:47PM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:47PM (#491386) Journal

    the Frighteningly Unstoppable Catapulted Koalas Extended-reach Doomsday?
    The whole point of a doomsday machine is that we have to know about it!

    Let's see, the F . . .U . . . C, okay, got it. But why do you think the commission and the commissioner are trying to bury all these complaints, especially the one I haven't quite written yet? The Silence of Australians can only mean one thing! And there are lots of lambs in Australia, Silence of the Lambs? Jodie Foster? OMG, Contact with Extra-Terrestials!

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:57AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:57AM (#492042)

      The commissioner is just a puppet of the Ballistic Army of Ninja Koalas...