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[[File:HRL Coal Power Plantsml.jpg|right]] Following the decision Environment Victoria noted that the new Bailleau government's policy made it easier to get approaval for a brown coal-fired power station than for a wind farm. Prior to the election the Liberal Party campaigned on a policy of restoring "fairness and certainty to the planning system for wind farms" by instiuting a number of new measures including ensuring that "the placement of turbines will be no less than two kilometres from the nearest home unless a contract between the resident and wind farm developer is agreed"giving residents a veto over the construction of a wind farm within two kilometres of their house.<ref>[http://vic.liberal.org.au/webData/policies_others/Planning.pdf "The Victorian Liberal Nationals Coalition Plan for Planning"], Liberal Party of Victoria and National Party of Victoria, November 2010, page 19.</ref>  However, approximately 250 homes would be within two kilometres of the proposed Dual Gas power station.<ref>[http://www.environmentvictoria.org.au/blog/posts/playing-favourites "Playing favourites with Victoria's energy future"], Environment Victoria, May 25, 2011.</ref> "It obviously sends the wrong signal when we are trying to clean up the energy supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Environment Victoria campaigns director Mark Wakeham. A resident within the two kilometre range told Age reporter Adama Morton that her asthma had got worse since moving to the Latrobe Valley. "It seems to me that the coal plants they are building are coming closer and closer to the township of Morwell, and that will mean that residents will have to move further out from the town to get away from them," she said.<ref>Adam Morton, [http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/stricter-rules-for-wind-turbines-than-for-coal-plants-20110524-1f2ie.html "Stricter rules for wind turbines than for coal plants"], ''The Age'', May 25, 2011.</ref>