From: Mary Morris, 4th generation farmer To: Dr Campbell Gemmell, CEO Environment Protection Authority Adelaide, SA. 17 October 2012 Dear Dr Gemmell, Waterloo Wind Farm Noise Complaints: the EPA's statutory responsibility I refer to your letter of 2 October 2012 which I received with great disappointment. Your letter completely overlooks my request to have you … Continue reading Waterloo Wind Farm’s Acoustic Torment Condoned by SA’s Environment Protection Authority
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Dear Premier Weatherill …
This letter to the Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill (above), was sent on July 18, 2012. A reply was never received. Dear Premier Weatherill, I have written to you previously about continuing problems in my community from the Waterloo wind farm and about Frank Wang’s disputed survey of the 75 households within 5 km … Continue reading Dear Premier Weatherill …
The research project that took everyone by surprise (except the residents of Waterloo)
Waterloo wind farm began operation in 2010, comprising 37 turbines. It is located about 30 km from the town of Clare, in the heart of the South Australian wine growing and tourism region. So in the following year when a supervisor at the University of Adelaide suggested a postgraduate student undertake a study into the … Continue reading The research project that took everyone by surprise (except the residents of Waterloo)
You can hear it – and it’s coming here fast
How many times has he said it? How many times has Sydney University's Simon Chapman made the comparison between Wind Turbine Syndrome and the plague of "modern health worries" ... like anxiety about mobile phones for instance? We've lost count. But here's one example. And another. And another. Here's his PowerPoint presentation where he compares … Continue reading You can hear it – and it’s coming here fast
Blaming the victims of Big Wind
This post by Curt Devlin first appeared on http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com. Devlin is a software architect, has worked with Microsoft and is a former teaching fellow in the Tulane University Department of Philosophy. Founded in 1834, Tulane is one of the most highly regarded and selective independent research universities in the United States. During my years at … Continue reading Blaming the victims of Big Wind
Wind energy and the reconstructed smoking milk bottle
It's the transcript of an information session held in Melbourne last year grandly titled "The Future of Wind Energy in Australia". It was organized by The Grattan Institute. Jonathan Upson (pictured) is senior development manager at Infigen Energy. Now, when one of our group relayed his comments, we thought it was a joke. It had … Continue reading Wind energy and the reconstructed smoking milk bottle
Wind farm noise? It’s the sound of lawyers going to court
Try this. Google the words "wind farm lawsuit" and see how many listings you get. When we did this, the result was 897,000. Around the world, plaintiffs are busy. In courts throughout Europe, Canada, the US and Britain a massive number of litigation actions are underway. Many of these relate to health impacts. The University … Continue reading Wind farm noise? It’s the sound of lawyers going to court
These are our questions for Simon Chapman
These are our questions for Simon Chapman, professor in public health at the University of Sydney. 1. From your extensive CV, we notice you don’t have a medically related qualification, or specialize in hearing and hearing disorders, nor are you an acoustic engineer. Is that correct? 2. In the first paragraph of page 1 in … Continue reading These are our questions for Simon Chapman
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