New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption of the kind that would keep its ICAC busy for a decade (see our posts here and here).

At the centre of the cesspit is the NSW Planning Department.

After being bombarded with complaints raised by wind farm neighbours about incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound from public health disasters like Capital, Cullerin and Woodlawn, in 2012 and 2013, the Department commissioned an audit.

For a brief while, the audit reports appeared on the Department’s website and were generally available to the public.

However, without reason or explanation, the whole lot were removed without trace. Given the Department’s form (including getting its planning officers to rewrite a purportedly independent noise report to help the developer win approval), STT suspects just a little wind industry pressure was behind the removal.

The timing also smacks of wind industry corruption (of…