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Contact Energy has touted its planned $1 billion, 55turbine wind farm in Slopedown as potentially producing enough green power for 150,000 homes. However, the consent application for the fasttracked project, released by the Environment Protection Authority at the start of the month, also shows the company’s own consultant ecologist warning changes may be required to the project’s ‘‘footprint’’ to avoid destroying habitat for threatened longtailed bats, New Zealand falcons, fernbirds and green skinks.