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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 15-May-2009 At 11:39:16 AM wombly

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For me, wind farms are a truckload less visually intrusive than a bloody great coal mine and power plant.
This should really be the end of the story, but if you want more then you can try thinking about the
environmental effects of digging up coal and burning it, be that the loss of prime agricultural land for the
mine (in many cases), disposing of the overburden and waste (big acid mine drainage problems for
surface streams), huge water use for the condensers, big aquifer drawdowns from having to pump the
mine clear of water, air quality effects surrounding the power plant, greenhouse pollution ... ... ...

Apperently the electricity is cheap if you don't take responding to the effects of any of that into account!