As the political cacophony about ‘noisy, visually awful’ wind turbines reaches fever pitch, Calla Wahlquist visits the farmers who host one of the southern hemisphere’s largest windfarms and finds them stubbornly unperturbed

Bernice Davies is not one to let confusion get in the way of hospitality. She rallied quickly after a brief pause to take in our odd request.

“Of course you’re welcome to stay,” she said. “But you won’t be able to hear the mills.”

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All that stuff about the row is just crap. The fridge makes more of a row than the turbines

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