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Article: Fed: Green gurus row over Aussie wind farms
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- May 11, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
05-11-2004
Fed: Green gurus row over Aussie wind farms
MELBOURNE, May 11 AAP - Two prominent international environmentalists are butting heads
over whether wind farms should be set up across Australia.
Renowned British botanist David Bellamy has become a strident anti-wind farm activist,
denouncing them as pointless, expensive, ugly and dangerous to birds.
Bellamy says wind farms will not lead to the closure of power stations and we should
focus on properly insulating houses to conserve energy.
He has called the advocates of wind generated power liars and in an Australian newspaper
recently described wind farms as "weapons of mass destruction".
Now ...