Wind farm support

Warrnambool Standard
Friday 26/10/2007 Page: 4

MOST Australians trust wind farms and the CSIRO, but are not keen on nuclear energy stations or genetically modified crops, according to a new survey.

The National Technology and Society Monitor, conducted by the Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society at Swinburne University of Technology, questioned one thousand people about their attitudes towards new and emerging technology.

The survey found 81 per cent of respondents were comfortable with wind farms. There was much less support for nuclear energy stations, with more than half those surveyed stating some level of discomfort. Another discovery from the survey was that half of those questioned were uncomfortable with genetically modified (GM) plants, while two-thirds felt the same way about genetically modified animals for food.