Windfarm 'wing nuts': Public health expert takes aim at activists

By Bianca Hall
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:09pm, first published August 6 2015 - 1:43am

An independent Senator has compared opponents of wind farms to people who raised concerns about the dangers of thalidomide, which was later linked to the deaths of 2000 children and birth defects in more than 10,000 infants. The drug, which was marketed as a remedy for morning sickness, was withdrawn from the market in 1961.

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