Why Wind Turbine Noise is Just So Incredibly Annoying to Wind Farm Victims

'Annoyance' is a term much used, and frequently abused, in relation to the acoustic torture caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. Those that abuse the term, including a former tobacco advertising guru, claim that the known and obvious effects of being immersed in thumping waves of pulsating air pressure (ie noise and vibration), … Continue reading Why Wind Turbine Noise is Just So Incredibly Annoying to Wind Farm Victims

Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry

Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where the wind industry was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it’s just been hit with the first salvo in an effort to give … Continue reading Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry

Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation

Back in March STT reported on events in Huron County, Ontario – where, overwhelmed by health complaints, regional authorities appeared to have relented in an effort to gather the evidence of the known and obvious effects of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound - and to act on it (see our post here). We … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation

Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) has been a childhood favourite for more than a century.  The exploits of Toad, Rat, Mole and the elusive but respected Mr Badger, stand as an allegory of what is deemed worthy in the British concept of character, and their understanding of what constitutes good and bad manners. … Continue reading Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration

German Wind Farm Backlash Builds: Bavaria Slams Brakes On Wind Turbine Roll-Out

**** Germany's rural vistas of rolling hills, cloaked in pine, spruce, beech and oak, verdant valleys and delightful gothic homes, that fall from the pages of the Brothers Grimm, have been over-run with more than 20,000 of these things. If there was still a market for Picture Postcards, then the State of Bavaria would be … Continue reading German Wind Farm Backlash Builds: Bavaria Slams Brakes On Wind Turbine Roll-Out

Falmouth Wind Farm Nuisance Injunction Upheld (Again)

*** Back in November 2013, we reported on the orders made by a Court in Falmouth, Massachusetts that pulled to a halt the operation of a couple of Vestas V82s that have been driving townspeople nuts, since they kicked into gear over 5 years ago (see our post here). We’ve also reported on Barry Funfar, … Continue reading Falmouth Wind Farm Nuisance Injunction Upheld (Again)

Wind Turbine Infrasound: German Doctors Demand Shutdown of Turbines Within 3KM of Homes

One of the myths pedalled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is that Germans - who live cheek-by-jowl with thousands of these things - are not troubled in the slightest by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. Yet again, as with wind industry propaganda in the main, the truth is a whole … Continue reading Wind Turbine Infrasound: German Doctors Demand Shutdown of Turbines Within 3KM of Homes

The Wind Industry’s Malicious & Unjustified Harm to Public Health

Wind power is a public health problem Cape Cod Times Lilli-Ann Green 7 March 2016 Wind turbine projects have previously been rejected in Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Harwich, Dennis, Brewster, Barnstable and Bourne. Health concerns have been a major issue. A Superior Court judge, hearing neighbor’ complaints that wind turbine noise constituted an intolerable “nuisance” that … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Malicious & Unjustified Harm to Public Health

Health Official Derides Wind Farm Neighbours’ Suffering, but Suffers Migraines Whenever She Goes Near Wind Turbines

Brown County Health Officer Admits Feeling Ill When Near Duke's Shirley Wind Turbines Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy 22 March 2016 Brown County appears to be digging a deeper and deeper hole for itself as more facts come to light surrounding Duke Energy’s Shirley Windpower.  After an unusually long almost 3 month delay … Continue reading Health Official Derides Wind Farm Neighbours’ Suffering, but Suffers Migraines Whenever She Goes Near Wind Turbines

Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts

**** In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts