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ooking out across
Lake George, about 40 kilometres north-east of Canberra, farmer Harry Osborne
takes a different view to Joe Hockey.
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| The Lake George wind turbines that Joe Hockey finds offensive - makes you wonder when he last looked at an open-cut coal mine? |
It was looking back from the opposite bank as he drove from
Sydney to Canberra that the Treasurer decided wind turbines offended him.
In an interview with broadcaster Alan Jones last year, Mr
Hockey described the Bungendore wind farm looming over Lake George as "a
blight on the landscape" and "utterly offensive".
And he was at it again this week, telling Victorian Premier
Daniel Andrews: "I can't stand those things … they're all around Lake
George", confirming it is the "aesthetic" of wind farms he
objects to.
Mr Osborne, who is one of Bungendore's wind farmers, with 10
turbines set on the edge of Currandooley, his property adjoining Lake George,
said everyone has the right to their opinion but they should be careful in
assuming others share the same view.
Read Heath Aston’s story in The Age - “Operator of maligned wind farm is no fan of Joe Hockey”.
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