WIND FARMS: WAUBRA

27 May 2010 COUNCIL

Mr KAVANAGH (Western Victoria) -- My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Environment and Climate Change and relates to wind farms in the Waubra area. The Shire of Pyrenees and others have been calling on the Environment Protection Agency to visit Waubra and conduct an environmental safety study of the wind farms there. The Minister for Planning has recently stated publicly that the EPA will undertake an environmental study of Waubra's wind farms if it is invited to do so. It has been invited to do so many times. The action I seek is that the minister organise for the EPA to visit Waubra and undertake just such a study of whether the environment there is safe or not.