Homeowner B's Story
June 2006.
Our family of 6 moved out to Spring Range in September 1985. Our business had crashed with the economic fall and we only had enough money to buy the land and put up a colour bond double garage. We moved into the garage, converted to rustic living quarters with our four young children
When we moved to Springrange we found life a lot harder than city life, having to travel along a potholed dirty road, numerous flat tyres and generally a "hard" life compared to our previous one of a nice home, clean car, instant running water!!etc etc. After 4 years of hard work by my husband, myself and our children we were able to purchase a large 5 bedroom weatherboard home from Ainslie which we moved out to the property and put back together, finally having a nice comfortable home to live in again. We planted numerous groves and also rows and rows of trees all over our 300 acre property and have nurtured and watered them (by hand) and watched them grow into majestic beauty. As each "kilometre" of tar was put into the hard rocky road we celebrated and it felt like we had achieved something for all our hard work and sacrifice in prior years.
Our children caught the bus every afternoon after school and did the long hard haul home on their mountain-bikes, (hard work on a rock road) frequently stopping sometimes in the hot summer to drink from clean dams.
They are all grown up now and much to our delight we can't get rid of them, we all just love this place. Our children now run cattle and crops on the property and will eventually inherit it from us. It is our sanctuary!!! But is it??
We were devastated to hear from a neighbour about a proposed wind farm on Mount Spring. We have just recently built a beautiful new home and the view which we planned before the house was built, looks directly over our dam and at picturesque Mount Spring. I cannot and do not want to imagine looking at wind turbines not to mention have to listen to the constant rumbling noise that will be created from these turbines.
If we had wanted to live in an area with constant noise and ugly wind turbines bordering the skyline we would not have purchased in Springrange we would have purchased elsewhere. There are numerous areas within the ACT and NSW to accommodate these wind turbines such as national parks and forests without upsetting the lifestyle and tranquillity of populated areas and people who just want to walk around their garden and feel peace and quiet in their sanctuary that they have created and have decided to live.