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The NSW Liberal member hates wind farms with a passion and for years has been calling for a ban on new investment in the wind industry.

He told Parliament in 2012: "Here in Australia we now have some of the world’s first climate refugees, forced to flee their homes not by rising sea levels but by government policies subsidising industrial wind turbines."

Kelly's also referred to C02 as a benign gas, comparing it to alcohol saying: "if we want to reduce our emissions of carbon pollution, we could just drink chardonnay instead of champagne."