Wind farm guidelines delayed by reaction

-7,500 submissions on new rules

Due to a huge number of submissions from rural homeowners and the wind industry, new guidelines stipulating where wind farms can be built won’t be published by September as originally planned, according to the Department of the Environment.

Over 7,500 submissions were received by the Department of the Environment following the publication of draft guidelines at the end of last year. The controversial guidelines focused around noise from turbines, proximity to dwellings and shadow flicker, and had been criticised by the pro-wind and anti-wind lobbies.