SPRING RANGE LANDSCAPE GUARDIANS

This ...

The way the residents like it. - click to enlarge.

Welcome to SRLG's website - dedicated to preserving the rural/residential landscape of Spring Range

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The way ACTEW AGL is planning - click to enlarge

We work hard to ensure our material is fair and accurate. If you find errors please let us know.

We support Australia's quest for alternative energy, including the use of appropriately sited wind turbines. However, our community's direct experience of wind industry practice, and our research leads us to question the way wind energy is being deployed in Australia.

There are broader issues we should all consider carefully before industrialising Australia's rural landscapes.

The issues

Residential Impact

Visual Impact
Noise
Shadow flicker
Community Divisiveness

Fire Risk
Wildlife
Landscape Change
Political Process
Power Company Process

Spring Range House with turbine to scale - click to enlarge

A Relevant Quote

“The fact that the biosphere responds unpredictably to our actions is not an argument for inaction. It is however a powerful argument for caution and for adopting a tentative attitude toward all we believe and all we do. Unfortunately our species has demonstrated a striking lack of caution in the past. It is hard to imagine that we will behave differently in the future.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past and so might be wrong in the future. Instead each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds – and then embarks on fresh errors of its own.”

- Michael Crichton, 2002.