Windfarm related newsitems

• • Video: Wellington's massive wind farm is switched on (29 April)

    • 30 Apr 2009
    • IN-Business News: New Zealand's most advanced wind farm named "West Wind" was switched on this morning.
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    Makara, Wellington
  
  

• • Review: Turbine

    • 21 Feb 2009
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Wind farms seem like a really good idea. They use wind (a good thing) and they're a farm (another good thing) so anyone who complains about it should just shut up and think of the polar bears, right?
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• • Blow me away

    • 18 Feb 2009
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Newsflash: Mill Creek Wind Farm approved, almost all intact - just 2 turbines short of the full picnic. We blogged about it before, back in June last year when it was announced and publicly notified - and we thought that the residents of Ohariu Valley might put up a bigger stink than the residents of nearby Makara did when they were confronted with Project West Wind.
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    Makara, Wellington
  
  

• • Mill Creek Wind Farm

    • 11 Jun 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Mill Creek wind farm is the proposal to build a new wind farm in the Ohariu Valley north west of Wellington, and it borders the other major wind farm project: West Wind, also by Meridian Energy. A self-appointed group of selfish Makara Residents, the “Makara Guardians” led by local Makara resident Jenny Jorgenson tried their hardest to get the West Wind stopped - thankfully they were tossed out in the Environment court. A similar group is also fighting the proposed Mill Creek giant wind turbines, and they’re just as selfish too.
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    Ohariu Valley
  
  

• • ZL6QH Quartz Hill is off air

    • 25 Feb 2008
    • ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
    • The Quartz Hill station is now closed for major amateur radio activity while Meridian Energy Ltd is building a wind farm for electricity generation. Our antenna farm has been dismantled to make way for the civil works. Consequently the provision to make station bookings has also been suspended.
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    • makara
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    Makara, Wellington
  
  

• • A New Farm for Ohariu

    • 29 Jan 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It has been confirmed that Meridian Energy plans to build a new wind farm in the Ohariu Valley, with 31 turbines across 4000 hectares. The proposed site is owned by 5 farmers, who banded together in 2002 to negotiate proposals with various energy companies. Talks had stalled over price issues in 2003, but recently an agreement has been reached. Having met with the community last night, it is unclear whether the project will face significant opposition from the local residents.
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• • Visible and risible

    • 26 Nov 2007
    • WellUrban
    • There was a shock horror scoop in the Dominion Post today, with the headline Wind farm 'visible from Island Bay to Waikanae'. A leaked report purports to show that the proposed Puketiro wind farm would be visible from all across the Wellington region, and a spokesperson for a group called "Preserve Pauatahanui" said that "the leaked information shows that all Wellingtonians should be concerned".Does this mean that the wind farm will be a dominating presence across the region? Hardly.
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• • Quartz hill is off the air

    • 17 Oct 2007
    • ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
    • The Quartz Hill site is now closed for major amateur radio activity while a wind generation farm is under construction there. The activities log and the provision to make bookings have therefore been suspended. We are hopeful that we will be able to return to the site and re-establish the station once the wind farm is in operation.
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    Makara, Wellington
  
  

• • Guardians Will Not Appeal Wind Farm Decision

    • 7 Jun 2007
    • {Makara} Guardians Inc advises today that it will not appeal the decision of the Environment Court to allow Project West Wind to proceed The Environment Court issued its decision within a few days of the Minister for the Environment calling in the Chief Environment Court judge to explain the Court's delay.
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    Makara, Wellington
  
  

• • Open day - be there!

    • 21 Dec 2006
    • ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
    • There will be an open day at Quartz Hill for supporters, all radio amateurs, SWLs, their families and friends, on Sunday 4 February 2007 - from 11:00 am onwards. You will be able to view the Quartz Hill facilities. This may be your last chance to see this fabulous facility in its current form as it is likely that we will have to dismantle antenna infrastructure over the coming year (to make way for the wind farm project).
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