Senate inquiry calls for new national rules to curb wind farms

By Tom Arup
Updated August 3 2015 - 9:18pm, first published 8:37pm
The Capital Wind Farm near Canberra. Photo: Jamila Toderas
The Capital Wind Farm near Canberra. Photo: Jamila Toderas

The Abbott government should draw up national rules restricting how wind farms are built and operated and punish states that do not accept them, a Senate committee has urged.