**** In the month since Steven Cooper’s groundbreaking study into the adverse effects from turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound on wind farm neighbours at Cape Bridgewater hit the press, the wind industry and its parasites have reacted in a form of panic that can only be described as hysterical. None more so, than that … Continue reading Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Public Relations Disaster: Video of a Corporate Calamity Unfolding
Category: Health
Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge
A little while back, a Scottish pen-smith posed a little rhetorical on the subtle art of skulduggery: Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! There have been few industries that have had more practice, and as much success, in that subtle art, as the wind industry. STT has popped … Continue reading Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge
Wind Industry Claims about “Peer-Reviewed” Health Research Exonerating Turbines a Tissue of Lies
The wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - and shills like the NHMRC - keep banging on about the existence of a great body of “peer-reviewed” health research said to prove that wind turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound has absolutely no effect on the health of the victims, who have the misfortune of living … Continue reading Wind Industry Claims about “Peer-Reviewed” Health Research Exonerating Turbines a Tissue of Lies
Adverse Health Effects of Wind Turbine Infrasound Explained
**** The impact of low-frequency noise and infrasound from wind turbines on neighbours has been known by the wind industry since NASA turned a massive, multidisciplinary microscope on the problem back in the 1980s (see our posts here and here and here). Mind you, that highly relevant research has been steadfastly ignored by Australia's peak … Continue reading Adverse Health Effects of Wind Turbine Infrasound Explained
Pacific Hydro Orders ABC’s “Ministry of Truth” to hound Steven Cooper, Graham Lloyd and Channel 7 Over Wind Farm Study
**** Media Watch ‘just skimmed my report’: researcher The Australian Sonia Kohlbacher 16 February 2015 A SCIENTIFIC researcher whose groundbreaking study into the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents has criticised the ABC’s Media Watch program, saying its journalist hounded his company about alleged media misrepresentations without reading or understanding his report. The study … Continue reading Pacific Hydro Orders ABC’s “Ministry of Truth” to hound Steven Cooper, Graham Lloyd and Channel 7 Over Wind Farm Study
The Smoking Gun: Top US Noise Experts – Paul Schomer & George Hessler – Endorse Steven Cooper’s Wind Farm Study
**** During the short month that's passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here), the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in a state of absolute panic. Pacific Hydro – the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but deliberately … Continue reading The Smoking Gun: Top US Noise Experts – Paul Schomer & George Hessler – Endorse Steven Cooper’s Wind Farm Study
US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
**** Scott Walker’s Budget Includes $250,000 To Study ‘Wind Energy System-Related Health Issues’ Huffington Post Kate Sheppard 2 February 2015 The two-year, $68 billion budget proposal Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Tuesday includes a request for $250,000 to study the health impacts of wind turbines. Page 449 of the budget proposal includes a recommendation from … Continue reading US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
**** In the three weeks or so that have passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here) the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in absolute panic mode. Pacific Hydro - the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
Noise is always and everywhere a public health issue. Last year, in a piece looking at the importance of silence to healthy, happy communities, The Economist, quoting Poppy Elliot from the Noise Abatement Society, wrote that: [A] quiet environment is necessary to enable people to fulfil their intellectual and creative potential. She points to a … Continue reading Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
**** With Steven Cooper's Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry - always prickly when it comes to fronting up to "inconvenient" facts (see our post here) - is more defensive than ever. In Australia, one long-running "inconvenience" for … Continue reading David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact