Hobart Mercury
Wednesday 19/12/2007 Page: 17
WIND-POWER generator Roaring 40s says it has no plans for any offshore wind-based energy, either in Australia or overseas. Roaring 40s spokesman Josh Bradshaw said all the company's interests were land-based, but it would monitor overseas developments on offshore wind farms. He was commenting on plans in Britain to generate enough electricity through offshore wind farms to power every home in the country by 2020. The British Government has said the extra turbines would change the coastline, but the need for energy self sufficiency left it no choice.
Roaring 40s was formed in 2005 through a partnership between Hydro Tasmania and China Light and Power Group. The company now has wind energy generation at more than 13 sites in Australia and overseas. In Tasmania, it has a wind farm at Woolnorth in the far North-West and pre-construction is beginning at Musselroe at Cape Portland in the state's North-East. Mr Bradshaw said Roaring 40s would like to start construction at Musselroe Wind Farm in the first three to six months of next year.
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