Our campaign to stop the wind plant on the Molonglo Ridge

The Molonglo Landscape Guardians have one aim – to stop the construction of a wind farm on the Molonglo Ridge because we believe that it is an inappropriate site for a wind farm.

We are a voluntary, community group and have been undertaking the following activities in our campaign to stop the wind farm:

Lobbying decision-makers at local, state and federal levels
Disseminating information to the public and local community organisations about the wind farm through newsletters, presentations, media releases and this website
Researching the potential impacts of the wind farm on the local community and environment
Conducting field trips for local Councillors and environment groups
Gathering signatures on a petition opposing the windfarm
Attending council meetings and monitoring decision making
Preparing submissions to NSW Energy Directions Green Paper (PDF 84 kb) and Department of Environment and Heritage Draft Management Plan on large forest owls
Giving presentations to local and state government officials in NSW and ACT
Produced a regular newsletter that is distributed to 1000 homes surrounding the ridges
Produced proximity and visibility maps and photo montages of the proposed wind farm (now available from this website)

How is it that a voluntary, community group can do all this (and hold down our day jobs) yet EHN – with access to a $77 million (€48.4 million) profit in 2004 – can't even manage to respond to straight-forward, simple questions from residents? Not good enough, EHN.

Last Updated: 20 December, 2005