Which way will the wind blow? Decision day looms for planned windfarm on Tasmania's Robbins Island

Bird lovers and business leaders await verdict on a long-fought proposal to build up to 100 turbinesSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton's free Clear Air newsletter hereMore people have heard of Robbins Island than have seen it. Separated from Tasmania's north-western tip by a stretch of water that can be navigated only at low tide, the island is nearly 10,000 hectares of heathland and woodlands, paddocks, unusual geology and wetlands, all ringed by pristine beaches.The island has been owned by the Hammond family, who use it to run Wagyu cattle, since the 1960s. Further back it was home to the Pirilyunya people for tens of thousands of years.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton's Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...