The Wheatbelt town of Kojonup is set to become the latest flashpoint in the debate over wind farms amid plans to build WA's second biggest wind energy project nearby.A group of local business people, through the company Moonies Hill Energy, wants permission to construct 74 wind turbines at a site called Flat Rocks, 30km south-east of Kojonup. The project would cost almost $500 million, have a generating capacity of 150MW - enough electricity to power 90,000 homes - and "save" about 730,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually.
But local residents say the wind farm pre-empts the findings of a Senate inquiry into the health impacts of wind turbines.
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