The winds of Tasmania,
which keep the
green-patterned ground parrot from even thinking about nesting higher up in the
trees, may be finally finding a benevolence. One of the most galvanized of
Australian icons. Southern Cross windmills, produced by the thousands at the
Griffiths brothers factory in Toowooba, still pump water all over the back of
beyond. But a new generation of wind power is in the works for King Island, off
the northwest corner of the Fatal Shore, in the Roaring Forties of the Bass
Strait. A 300-turbine wind farm had been proposed which, if built, would make
it the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere. When the winds of change
blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
'If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.'
Khalil Gibran
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