Until now, Australia’s wind industry owned the game. Having written the rules of operation, helped by corrupt government officials and its pet acoustic consultants, wind power operators have treated noise affected neighbours with derision and contempt.
Now the game is the wind industry’s to lose, and it all started at a little place in Victoria, called the Bald Hills.
Driven mad by incessant, grinding, thumping wind turbine noise a group of farmers lawyered up and went on the offensive: their run of victories now pose an existential threat to the Australian wind industry.
For years, they’ve battled their local Council – the body responsible under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act to prosecute noise nuisance complaints.
Their lawyer, Dominica Tannock, a tenacious young Melburnian, never let up.
Ground into submission, the Council was forced to engage one of Melbourne’s top Queen’s Counsel to get his independent opinion on…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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