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Dazzle
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 Posted: Tue 1st Jul 6:48am Post subject: Long Gully Wind Farm |
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| Quote: | Long Gully Station owner Steven Watson said Mighty River had been monitoring the wind there for about four years, and he had had an agreement with the company for three years regarding building on his land.
"I just see it as a very sensible use of what is otherwise marginal farmland. It just makes so much sense."
Mr Watson said he was trying to ensure all recreational use of the land, including mountain bike tracks, would continue. |
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4602726a10.html
Has this been openly discussed here? 20 - 50 turbines.
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ThingOne
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Why does the environmental group say this will damage the environment?. I dont understand the argument?
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sifter
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 8:07am Post subject: |
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This is the first I've heard of it... *scurries off to read the stuff piece...*
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sifter
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| ThingOne wrote: | | Why does the environmental group say this will damage the environment?. I dont understand the argument? |
Nor do I... I wonder if they've ever been to Long Gully... 
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Dazzle
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Save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse
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sifter
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 8:13am Post subject: |
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| Dazzle wrote: | Save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse
save the gorse |
and the goats
and the goats
and the goats
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ThingOne
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Most of Long gully is a chunk of windswept gorse and rock sparc land, I cant think of a better use than as a wind farm really.
I mean really... these groups do themselves no favours by just blanket complaining about every development, of anything..
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sifter
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 8:19am Post subject: |
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| ThingOne wrote: | Most of Long gully is a chunk of windswept gorse and rock sparc land, I cant think of a better use than as a wind farm really.
I mean really... these groups do themselves no favours by just blanket complaining about every development, of anything.. |
I also wonder what gives them the right to call themselves an Environmental Group. What environment are they trying to protect? "Action for keeping our backyard the same"? 
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faux_name
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 8:27am Post subject: |
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At the other site, they complained about visual impact, noise and damage when installing them. Basically, it's better if we produce energy by methods that damage the environment with stuff you can't see or hear, such as coal or gas plants which only produce invisdible pollutants, and no-one really beleives in those anyway - global warming is just a government conspiracy to get us to build moar seagull blenders. I mean windfarms. 
Windfarms FTW I say, I reckon capturing some of teh wind at LG would make the resource consent jumps more jumpable more often.
I think I'm getting the hang of this arguing online thing 
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ThingOne
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I have emailed Carrick, (if thats his real name, sounds made up to me).. and asked him for details on the environmental damage at Long Gully..
Oh and hes also president of grey power.. so in effect his generation screwed up the environment and they are preventing ours from fixing it 
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sifter
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 8:39am Post subject: |
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| ThingOne wrote: | | so in effect his generation screwed up the environment and they are preventing ours from fixing it |
Nice, and fantastic call at the end there!!! 
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Joel
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make sure to ask him that if they are protesting against wind farms, would they support the nuclear power station petition which will prevent the need for the wind farms 
good idea putting a wind farm out there i reckon. would look pretty impressive from the straight coming accross on the ferry!
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ThingOne
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| Joel wrote: | | Would look pretty impressive from the straight coming accross on the ferry! |
Agreed , they should be a good tourist attraction. They could even stick a seat on the end of the turbine blades for extra thrill seeking..
This country has some serious issues when it comes to being "green". Our laws dont allow it to happen in a speedy cost effective manner. Think Project Aqua and the 10 years to get permission to do Makara.
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1scotty1
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I imagine the environmental effects would include location of the turbines and their visibility to neighbours, silt control as all the streams would flow into Cook Strait, access to all the trucks and earthmoving equipment through Brooklyn or Karori. There would be thousands of vehicle movements for such a large project.
All of these effects can be mitigated but I imagine there are processes to go through.
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Jono
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| Posted: Tue 1st Jul 9:00am Post subject: RE: Long Gully Wind Farm |
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| Dazzle wrote: | http://www.stuff.co.nz/4602726a10.html
Has this been openly discussed here? 20 - 50 turbines. |
Me and Mike the hippy were talking about it only a couple of weeks ago; there has been a lot of work on the roads around/through long gully over the last couple of months - the road up to the western ridgeline (which drops down into south karori road) is now rather large and smooth
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