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Rural communities favour wind farms, CSIRO study finds

CSIRO finds stronger wind farm support than media reflects, ABC Rural News,  17/01/2012 A CSIRO study has found there’s stronger community support for wind farms than reported in newspapers.

The case study looked at nine communities with wind farms and interviewed everyone from wind companies, to local government, turbine hosts and people both opposed to and supporting wind farms.

One of the authors of the report “Acceptance of rural wind farms in Australia” Dr Jim Smitham says residents don’t seek media attention to express their views.

“In presenting a balance picture, if there are groups of people who have a single point of view and are very strident in expressing that, they might appear to drown out some of the wider group who have lots of other reasons for support,” he says. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201201/s3409653.htm

January 18, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, wind | wind