The $2.5 billion wind project getting ready for take-off, 23 years after farmer landholders were first approached

One of the first and oddest sights that greets a visitor heading towards the site of the proposed Winterbourne wind project near Walcha in northern NSW is of a Cessna light aircraft pitched into the ground on one of the town’s exit roads.

“I put it there to say ‘come and crash at the…