Anti-windfarm view concerns

Cooma Monaro Express
29/08/2006, Page: 5

PETER Spencer is a land holder in the Snowy Mountains region whose family has been in the region since the 1830s.

He thought the forum was great but was sceptical about the anti-windfarm people's landscape arguments.

"It's no different to when fencing was introduced' Mr Spencer said. Nobody wanted fences around the landscape or freeways. I mean look at the massive transmission lines we have going over the Snowy region. Everything you see, if you look from an Aboriginal perspective, is an introduced technology.

"Whether it be a silo or a freeway, in tens year's time, just like they did in Denmark, we'll look back and say well that's just another object in the horizon."