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Imagine supplying all of the houses in our shire with electricity, plus raising money for local projects and local shareholders while cutting carbon emissions!

Mount Alexander Community Wind is a community driven project seeking to establish a locally owned and operated wind park to supply a significant portion of the energy needs of our Shire.  Clean renewable energy will be generated to replace energy derived from burning non-renewable coal.

We are currently at the stage of gather community interest and input.  We do not currently have a site.

Please explore our website, get up to date and learn how you can get involved!

 

 

What do you think of community-owned wind power?

Online Survey – AVAILABLE NOW!

This important survey is an opportunity to have a say.  By doing the survey you can have input into the vision, principles and future plans of the project.

The survey is available at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MountAlxanderCommunityWind

People who choose to leave their contact details go in the draw to wind  a prize, generously donated by Zen Eden Produce and Cafe in Maldon.

Please help us achieve our goal of 600 respondents by encouraging your family and friends who live in the area to do it too!

 

 

 

Latest News

 

Community Forums: a great success!

Over 170 people have participated in the 6 community forums held across Mount Alexander over the past 3 weeks.

Through the forums we have received a lot of very valuable input from the community that will help inform the future direction of the project.  We’ve heard from people about what the possible benefits are, as well as the challenges, of delivering a successful community-wind project.

Many perspectives were raised, as well as a number of important questions.  We will be collating answers to these questions over the coming weeks, which will be available in a ‘FAQ’ page on this website.

The response we’ve received from the community has been overwhelmingly positive, though we do acknowledge that some people have concerns and we will be working hard to address these effectively.  Particularly, we have heard loud and clear the importance of getting out there and talking with people, getting the community involved and upholding the values of cooperation, communication and community benefit.

The results of the forums will be available in a report in June, along with the results of the online survey.

Thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers who made the forums possible.  It has been a big effort from a great team.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – coming soon!

In response to the questions raised at our recent community forums, we will be compiling a FAQ, soon to be available on this website.  We thank you for your patience!

 

New health report released: ‘Getting the Wind Up: Exploring concern about the adverse health effects of wind turbines in Australia and Europe’

This newly released report by former MASG Chairperson, Neil Barrett, looks at the difference in the level of concern about adverse health effects from wind turbines in Australia,  Denmark and Germany. In the latter countries where wind turbines are very common, there is hardly any debate, whilst in Australia the claims made by anti-wind groups threaten to bring the industry to a standstill. By providing evidence of the lack of concern about health effects in Europe, this report casts further doubt on the validity  of `wind turbine syndrome’.

Available here: NBarrett_Getting the Wind Up_2012_2

 

Seeking interested Landholders

We are currently seeking expression of interest from landholders who are interested in hosting wind turbines on their property.  There is no proposed site for the wind project at present.  Expressions of interest by landholders will not be binding.  Any proposed site will need to be assessed for viability in terms of wind speed, local neighborhood interest, ecology, distance to the grid, etc..

Based on preliminary studies by our team of professionals, we know that there are areas in our shire that will offer good wind speeds as wellas meeting strong social, technical, legal and environmental standards.

• Register interest by emailing communitywind(at)masg.org.au or phone (03) 5470 6978

 

Please get involved! we can’t do this without you.

• Become a Supporter of Mount Alexander Community Wind
• Join our enews (by emailing us)
• Make a donation 
• Come on a Wind Farm Tour!

MASG will organise regular tours to Hepburn Wind. Tour dates and times will be posted on the MASG Notice Board, in the eNews and on this website.

Next Wind Farm Tour: Saturday 17 March. Please email us to register.