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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: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:42PM (2 children)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:42PM (#491384)

    ...has anyone considered the potential dangers peculiar to Australia? What if drop-bears cross-breed with flying squirrels or flying foxes?...

    It's not that much of a problem. It's happened before and the spiders* and butterflies keep their numbers down to managable levels.

    No place in Australia will be safe!

    And this is different to now? That's why we don't worry about the zombie apocalypse - it'll just be life as usual.

    if the deadly koalas learn to climb the turbines, slide down the spinning blades and catapult them selves into the vast blue yonder...

    Again, not a problem, wherever they land they won't be used to the local spiders and butterflies.

     

    *It's not commonly known that the "Shelob" scenes were filmed in Australia - without any special effects.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 10 2017, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 10 2017, @12:24AM (#491392) Journal

    Butterflies? The Spiders I have heard of. What's with the Butterflies? Is it the famed "Butterfly Effect" of Chaos Theory?

    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday April 10 2017, @08:04AM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday April 10 2017, @08:04AM (#491539)

      What's with the Butterflies? Is it the famed "Butterfly Effect" of Chaos Theory?

      Nothing chaotically theoretical. Our two largest carniverous butterflies are lycanthropedoptera homicida, or red murderer, and its slightly smaller but more aggressive cousin lycanthropedoptera famelicus jacksonii, or hungry Jack (named after Herbert "Lefty" Jackson, the 18th Century lepodopterist who was the first European to see one and survive).

      Unusually for Australian insects they aren't venomous, but make up for it by their impressive canine like teeth.

      They're especially dangerous during a full moon, their body lengths nearly doubling from the usual 1.5 - 2 metres. At this time they develop a voracious appetite for red meat; hungry Jack is an especially messy eater, grinding the meat first using its forelegs. There is an urban myth that, after seeing the remains of a herd of cattle after visit from a hungry Jack, the Burger King CEO renamed the Australian franchise.

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