Windfall (2010)

Doco exploring the chasm between rural farmers accepting cash to have wind turbines built on their land and the weekend lifestyle set who oppose them.

"Around the world, energy companies are encouraged by government subsidies to invest in wind power. The arguments against this scenario rage through a small upstate New York community in this documentary. Land-holding farmers feeling the pinch welcome the cash offered by power companies to erect windmills on their properties. But townies, many of them lifestyle refugees from the city, aren’t so sure they want to live in the shadows of 130-metre towers with seven-ton blades spinning at 150 miles per hour." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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