Contact Energy is seeking to delay a project the previous Government had agreed to fast-track.
The power company is to ask the Board of Inquiry to postpone the hearing on its planned 180-turbine windfarm near Raglan for one year, so it can carry out more research and site work on Waikato’s west coast.
An opponent of the windfarm, Ross Townshend, says the call-in system is for projects that are to be fast-tracked, and Contact’s request for an adjournment should mean forfeiture . . .

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