Thirty years ago Sir William Birch was a key architect behind the National government’s “Think Big” energy projects.
But yesterday the former energy and national development minister was batting for the other side, leading the charge against Contact Energy’s plans to build New Zealand’s biggest wind farm along 34 kilometres of Waikato’s isolated west coast.
Sir William, who retired from parliament as Port Waikato MP in 1999, is acting as a consultant for Sunset Views and Rimanui Farms in opposing the $1 . . .

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