Sunday, February 24, 2013

What price do you put on friendship?

 “For four years, a handful of farmers in the district hid a secret that not even a weekly drinks session or years of friendship could drag out. They had covertly opened up their farm gate to wind farm developers, lured by the cash offer of $15,000 for every wind turbine dug into their property — unbeknownst to the mate across the barbed wire fence whose hand they shook most days.”


FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS IN THIS TINY NSW COMMUNITY HAVE GONE TO WAR AFTER DISCOVERING THAT EVEN GREEN POWER CORRUPTS, WRITES ANDREW CARSWELL.

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