Later this month the court will decamp from its usual courtroom to the rolling countryside to the north of Sydney in a case which highlights the legal loopholes opponents of projects can use.

Landowner Marshall Baillieu - the son of former Liberal MP Ian Marshall Baillieu and the cousin to former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu - says ACEN's plans Valley of the Winds project would create "shadow flicker" not only on agriculture workers but also on a property which burned down in the 2017 Sir Ivan fire and which intends to one day rebuild.
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New South Wales' Land and Environment Court is considering a challenge to a $1.7b wind farm based around a property which burned down almost a decade ago. Later this month the court will decamp from...

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