What it's like to live next to wind turbines (Watch)

The land will be vastly altered: solar panels on the flats, wind turbines on the ridges and new high-voltage towers connecting it all, but the residents of these towns have more pragmatic things on their minds than rural scenery.

Sheep farmer Dimity Taylor knows something of what’s ahead for New England. She lives in the rich farming area of Bannister, near Goulburn, southwest of Sydney. Around her home wind turbines line the ridge, a solar farm sits in the flat and high-voltage transmission towers from the HumeLink project will soon march near her property. She’s not worried by any of it. “We were concerned about the wind farms and they ended up being fine,” she says, looking out her kitchen window to seven wind towers on the horizon.

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[rod]

No mention of all the trees removed to get the power to the main grid and compulsory easements for all of this

[Tennyson]

Full disclosure on paid promotions please.

[maxmackinlay]

She sounds like a highly paid government spoke person

[David-dkk]

They look absolutely awful, don’t care how much money goes into the community. Ugly great things have destroyed the landscape. It’s not all about money.

[rogerpattube]

They look pretty bad though. ‘Hosting renewable energy’ 😅

[Wit_Shunter]

"On a beautiful sunset they look gorgeous."

B-ZZ-ZZ! Sorry, next scammer please.

[billhill]

Destroyed the landscape ? You do understand that that area was cleared for farming in the first place, don't you ? Farms, roads, towns etc . That's when the landscape was " destroyed ". lt's called progress . Just as we cleared land for farming to make our lives better, now we are building renewables on that already cleared land to make life even better .

[margyrowland]

All this suffering and wasted money for something completely unnecessary. CO2 is not pollution. Plants take it in and release oxygen.

[adrianfeeger]

I wish we could put those that are against wind farms into a focus group, give them all the facts, a budget and a timeline to setup renewables and see what they come up with.

[UrsWalterlin]

Fantastic, Dimity. The fact that so many commentators hate what your are saying confirms that you are 100 % right.