Donations to help save threatened landscape
Random House New Zealand have announced that five dollars from every copy sold of a new edition of Timeless Land, a book which has been out of print for several years, will be generously donated to ‘Save Central’: the lobby group campaigning to prevent the proposed Project Hayes wind farm from going ahead.
‘Save Central’ are challenging Meridian Energy on their proposal to develop a wind farm in Central Otago. The donations from sales of Timeless Land will be going towards the continual fees in the Environment Court. The latest hearing - which has Meridian Energy appealing the decision to the High Court - is set down for the week beginning 21 June 2010, in Dunedin. Submissions will be exchanged between the parties during the course of the next month.
'We embarked on the Save Central campaign simply because we thought it insane that a very special landscape be forever destroyed for, at best, questionable benefits by way of energy production.’ says Graye Shattky, from Save Central. ‘Our present fundraising efforts are directed at ensuring that we are able to meet Meridian's High Court challenge with the best defence we can manage.’
When first published, Timeless Land was considered a ground-breaking regional book – it has now become popular with the public throughout NZ. It showcases the stunningly beautiful Central Otago region.
About Project Hayes:
The Project Hayes site is approximately 70 kilometres north-west of Dunedin, and is situated on the Lammermoor Range. The core project area involves five different Stations, with the plan to cover more than 90sq kilometers of almost completely unmodified high country tussock lands - uniquely Central Otago country - and would have up to 176 wind turbines, generating up to 630 MW. Meridian first lodged resource consent applications for Project Hayes with the Central Otago District Council in July 2006 and the next year in October 2007 with the Otago Regional Council.
About Timeless Land
Timeless Land is a passionate portrayal of the region and features the works of three steadfast and individual talents, Grahame Sydney and his great mates - poet Brian Turner and writer Owen Marshall. With over fifty of Sydney's finest paintings of Central Otago the book conveys the subtlety of light and shadow, of mood, and shows us the majestic durability of the land. Brian Turner's poems complement the paintings with remarkable synchronicity, and Owen Marshall's stories bring a human element to the whole. A Longacre book published by Random House $99.99
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Windmills split town and families
By HELEN O'NEILL, AP Special Correspondent
Sat Aug 16, 7:58 PM ET
LOWVILLE, N.Y. -
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home.
The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air. Sleek and white, their long propeller blades rotate in formation, like some otherworldly dance of spindly-armed aliens swaying across the land.
Yancey stares at them, his face contorted in anger and pain.
He knows the futuristic towers are pumping clean electricity into the grid, knows they have been largely embraced by his community.
But Yancey hates them.
He hates the sight and he hates the sound. He says they disrupt his sleep, invade his house, his consciousness. He can't stand the gigantic flickering shadows the blades cast at certain points in the day. <Read More......> |
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National wind farm noise standard to be reviewed
KATHY WEBB - The Dominion Post | Friday, 11 July 2008
National noise standards that govern wind farms are to be reviewed. Fraser Clark, chief executive of industry group the Wind Energy Association, said a committee of experts had been set up to review the 10-year-old NZS6808, which sets limits for all environmental noise. <Read More....>
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Wind power falls short this winter
Officials figures indicate that the wind energy sector did not produce enough power this winter.
A combination of officially encouraged power savings, timely rain and heavy production by fossil fuel stations has helped reduce the risk of serious energy shortages for the rest of the winter.
However, official production figures show a large number of still days meant wind energy failed to play its part.During some weeks in autumn, Meridian Energy's Te Apiti wind farm produced only one sixth of its installed capacity.Energy experts say the problem could intensify in future dry autumns if the Government presses ahead with additional renewable energy schemes.Copyright © 2008 Radio New Zealand <Read More....>
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Meridian supports Australian emissions targets
Friday, 18 July 2008, 2:21 pm
Press Release: Meridian Energy
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Friday 18 July 2008
Meridian supports Australian emissions targets with trans-Tasman development project Australian Treasurer, Wayne Swan, dropped in to meet Meridian Energy’s new Chief Executive Tim Lusk today. The visit followed Mr Swan’s day of bilateral talks yesterday with New Zealand Finance Minister, Dr Michael Cullen, and the release of Australia’s Emissions Trading Scheme Green Paper. Meridian also briefed the Treasurer on its involvement in a project that will see the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere being built by Meridian and AGL. <Read More...>
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Power spendup put at $7b
By JAMES WEIR - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 16 July 2008
The biggest spendup in the power industry for 30 years will result in about $7 billion being spent on generation and transmission lines in the next few years, Transpower chief executive
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The world's first deep-water device to generate electricity from the tides on a commercial scale has been lowered into place and has been fixed to the seabed with 12 metre (40 ft) pins. The 1,000-tonne double turbine SeaGen Tidal System at Strangford Lough in Co Down, Northern Ireland, is designed to produce enough electricity to supply 1,000 homes. -- Times Online.
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