**** More than once or twice, STT has picked up on hard-hitting scientific research that shows that those who suffer the worst effects of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are generally prone to suffer seasickness: Sick Again – motion sickness sufferers cop it worst from giant fans Top Acoustic Engineer – Malcolm Swinbanks … Continue reading Living Next to Wind Farms & Feeling Queasy, then you’re Probably No Happy High Seas Traveller
Category: Health
Australia’s PM – Tony Abbott – Out to STOP THESE THINGS
**** Australia’s PM, Tony Abbott has never had a soft spot for the wind industry (see our posts here and here). Now, he’s effectively set fire to its chances of obtaining the finance it needs to carpet Australia with another 2,500 giant fans. The match was lit on Alan Jones’ breakfast Show last Thursday. Alan … Continue reading Australia’s PM – Tony Abbott – Out to STOP THESE THINGS
SA Farmers Paid $1 Million to Host 19 Turbines Tell Senate they “Would Never Do it Again” due to “Unbearable” Sleep-Destroying Noise
**** Clive and Trina Gare are cattle graziers from South Australia’s Mid-North with their home property situated between Hallett and Jamestown. Since October 2010, the Gares have played host to 19, 2.1MW Suzlon s88 turbines, which sit on a range of hills to the West of their stately homestead. Under their contract with AGL they … Continue reading SA Farmers Paid $1 Million to Host 19 Turbines Tell Senate they “Would Never Do it Again” due to “Unbearable” Sleep-Destroying Noise
NSW Senator – David Leyonhjelm – Hammers the “Smug Untouchability” of the wind industry
**** David Leyonhjelm is the Liberal Democratic Party Senator for New South Wales. David’s insights into the great wind power fraud have graced STT’s pages on a number of occasions (see our posts here and here and here). David is one of the 8 cross-benchers who effectively control Australia’s Federal Parliament, whenever the Green/Labor Alliance … Continue reading NSW Senator – David Leyonhjelm – Hammers the “Smug Untouchability” of the wind industry
Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
**** Curt Devlin hales from Fairhaven, Massachusetts U.S.A. He was formerly a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Tulane University. He revved up against the great wind power fraud back in 2007, when a wind power outfit set out to spear a clutch of giant fans into the undisturbed and ecologically sensitive salt marshes … Continue reading Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
Wind Turbine Noise Causes Greater Prairie Chicken Run
Ardman Animation’s Chicken Run is a rollicking remake of WWII POW breakout favourite, The Great Escape. The tale takes place in the ‘Stalag’ of Tweedy’s Farm - minus the machine gun towers and jackboots - and comes with a feathery twist; and from a feminist perspective. Ginger, along with her band of intrepid inmates – … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Causes Greater Prairie Chicken Run
Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
**** One of the myths pedalled by Australia’s self-appointed wind farm noise, sleep and health 'expert' (a former tobacco advertising guru) is that the known and obvious adverse health impacts from incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are a cooked-up “phenomenon”, exclusive to the English speaking world. Trouble with that little tale is that’s … Continue reading Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
German Medicos Demand Moratorium on New Wind Farms
**** In the last few weeks, the backlash against the wind industry has taken on a character almost unthinkable a year or so ago. Britain’s newly empowered Conservatives have slammed the bag on new subsidies for on-shore wind power and will give local communities the power to veto wind farm plans (see our post here). … Continue reading German Medicos Demand Moratorium on New Wind Farms
Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
**** Melissa Ware is one of the long-suffering victims of Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater disaster. No sooner had Melissa given Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Disappointing Dan Tehan a solid whack - for his wind industry backed plea to salvage the completely unsustainable Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target - (see our post here), than she was back … Continue reading Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
Top Acoustic Engineer – Malcolm Swinbanks – Experiences Wind Farm Infrasound Impacts, First Hand
**** Top Acoustic Engineer, Dr Malcolm Swinbanks has been at the forefront of investigating the impacts of infrasound and low-frequency noise for over 40 years; and has been on the wind industry’s stinky trail in Michigan since 2009. Last month, he delivered this technically brilliant paper: “Direct Experience of Low Frequency Noise and Infrasound … Continue reading Top Acoustic Engineer – Malcolm Swinbanks – Experiences Wind Farm Infrasound Impacts, First Hand