Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

In answer to a question from one of Senator Faulkner’s comrades I have said that the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage advised that we should get a report on cumulative impacts. That report identified four birds that would be at risk through wind farm development. They include wedge-tailed eagles. That is the species that Mr Hulls used to stop a wind farm at Ballan only a few months ago, even though the report that he relied on and the report that I relied on said that wedge-tailed eagles are in fact abundant and, although they will get killed by wind turbines, they are resilient enough and in large enough numbers not to be threatened by them.