By WILSON, Aimee THE Maniototo Environmental Society will try to prove to the Environment Court this week that "apparent gaps" in Meridian Energy's evidence are significant enough for its wind farm to be declined.

By WILSON, Aimee in Cromwell MERIDIAN ENERGY requested that the impending outcome of the Mahinerangi windfarm not influence the decision for Project Hayes, on the first day of the six-week Environment Court hearing in Cromwell yesterday.

By WILLIAMS, David An Otago environmental group has launched legal action against two massive wind farm proposals, just days before an Environment Court appeal against one of them starts.

THE REAL question for Anton Oliver et al (February 3) is how many nimbys does it take to change to a compact fluorescent bulb to stop a wind farm? In the long term, the only way to reduce the need for wind farms or dams is by making new electricity sources unnecessary.

AN ENVIRONMENT COURT hearing into a $1.5 billion wind farm proposal for Otago will take up to six weeks and involve about 80 witnesses.