Another survey badly spun by the wind industry

Meridian Energy (New Zealand) spokesman Alan Seay in the Dominion Post yesterday that support of a wind plant in Wellington is "widespread":

• 84 per cent of those surveyed are positive about a wind farm in the capital as long as they can neither see nor hear any turbines.


• There is 75 per cent support if turbines are visible, but cannot be heard.


• 68 per cent of people support a wind farm if the closest turbine is no less than 1km away and any noise is neither loud nor intrusive.

These results of the Meridian-sponsored survey only show that people don't know how intrusive the turbines will be, and that as limitations on them are removed the support correspondingly declines.

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