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Joe Hockey again says wind farms are ‘appalling’

Audio: Wind farms are ruining the landscape and are ‘appalling’, Treasurer Joe Hockey says, ABC News PM By James Glenday  17 Sep 2014,  Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has made more critical comments about the way wind farms look, describing them as “appalling”……in May, he said the wind farm at Lake George near Canberra was “utterly offensive” and a “blight on the landscape”.

Yesterday, at the Bloomberg Summit in Sydney he was asked if he would repeat the comments.

“Yes, I would,” Mr Hockey said……..

Hockey’s comments ‘utterly unhelpful’

Infigen Energy, the company that owns the Capital Wind Farm, is not amused by the comments.

Managing director Miles George has been outspoken in his criticism of the Abbott Government’s approach to the renewable energy sector and said Mr Hockey’s comments were “utterly unhelpful”.

“I just don’t think it’s appropriate to contemplate that the view of one motorist 10 kilometres away from the wind farm is relevant in any discussion of renewably energy generally,” he said.

“As I understand it, Mr Hockey, poor people don’t drive cars so they wouldn’t see that wind farm anyway. Perhaps that’s the counter to that argument.”…..http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/wind-farms-ruin-the-landscape-and-look-appalling-hockey/5748346

September 18, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News