Holding Wind Power Outfits to Account Means Getting Your Own Noise Data

If you’re being driven nuts by thumping, grinding wind turbine noise don’t expect government authorities to help. Local governments, municipalities and so-called Environment Protection Authorities were co-opted by the wind industry, long ago. Although, sometimes, it’s more bungling incompetence than blatant corruption that does the damage. Everyone is entitled to sleep comfortably in their own … Continue reading Holding Wind Power Outfits to Account Means Getting Your Own Noise Data

Noise Torture Terminated: Wind Industry Panics After Supreme Court Orders Turbine Shutdown

Renewable energy rent-seekers are clearly rattled by the Supreme Court decision, that forced a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time and ordered substantial damages in favour of the plaintiffs for the pain and suffering, already caused to its victims. Being forced to limit the operation of wind turbines to … Continue reading Noise Torture Terminated: Wind Industry Panics After Supreme Court Orders Turbine Shutdown

Shut Down: Supreme Court Decision Destroys Wind Industry’s Entire Business Model

The Supreme Court’s decision, forcing a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time has wrecked the wind industry’s business model in Australia and elsewhere. Being forced to limit the operation of wind turbines to the daytime only, means forgoing every last nickel of income that might have been generated at … Continue reading Shut Down: Supreme Court Decision Destroys Wind Industry’s Entire Business Model

Landmark Decision Vindicates Victims: Supreme Court Orders Total Wind Farm Shutdown

In a world-first, neighbours tormented by wind turbine noise have won a landmark victory, forcing the operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time. Yesterday, Justice Melinda Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court slapped an injunction on a wind farm because the noise it generates has been driving neighbours nuts for seven years, … Continue reading Landmark Decision Vindicates Victims: Supreme Court Orders Total Wind Farm Shutdown

How The Wind Industry Propaganda Machine Smears Its Community Based Opponents

The wind industry fights dirty, just stand between it and a bucket of subsidies and you’ll soon find out what we mean. True enough, corporates of all descriptions are adept at manipulating the message to advance their interests. But the wind industry and its political enablers operate at a whole different level. The strategies are … Continue reading How The Wind Industry Propaganda Machine Smears Its Community Based Opponents

Wind Farm Noise Nuisance Case Uncovers Wind Industry’s Culture of Lies & Deceit

The wind industry’s entrenched culture of lying and deceit is well-known around the globe. Uncovering precisely what these characters get up to is more of a challenge. A noise nuisance case being pursued by farmers in the Victorian Supreme Court against the operator of the Bald Hills wind farm (see our post here) is revealing … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Nuisance Case Uncovers Wind Industry’s Culture of Lies & Deceit

Supremely Callous: Wind Farm Operators Treatment of Noise-Affected Neighbours a Total Disgrace

The wind industry is peopled by special kind of monster; he’s the character who will steal your home right out from underneath you, smiling all the while. You’ll find his key attributes drawn out in the DSM under the chapter on sociopaths. For anyone with a shred of humanity, compassion and decency dealing with people … Continue reading Supremely Callous: Wind Farm Operators Treatment of Noise-Affected Neighbours a Total Disgrace

So Corrupt: Outrageous Attempt by Wind Industry to Influence Supreme Court Judge

A Supreme Court Judge started hearing the trial of a noise nuisance claim brought by farmers against a wind farm operator last week. The plaintiffs are seeking substantial damages, including aggravated and exemplary damages for over six years of nightly noise punishment. As we pointed out in an earlier post, the action was being pursued … Continue reading So Corrupt: Outrageous Attempt by Wind Industry to Influence Supreme Court Judge

Justice Looms: Wind Farm Operator Faces Liability for $Millions in Damages to Noise Nuisance Victims

  No one has to suffer endless sleepless nights caused by wind turbines without redress or compensation. It’s the law. On that score, a group of farmers has turned the tables on the wind farm operator who has been driving them mad since March 2015. Back then, Japan’s Mitsui and Co speared 52, 2 MW … Continue reading Justice Looms: Wind Farm Operator Faces Liability for $Millions in Damages to Noise Nuisance Victims

Victims Vindicated: Farmers Victorious in Landmark Legal Battle Over Wind Turbine Noise

  A farming community tormented by wind turbine noise for years is celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision that declared it an unlawful nuisance. The community surrounding the Bald Hills wind farm, built by a Japanese developer, Mitsui and Co, have been tortured by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound since March 2015, when its … Continue reading Victims Vindicated: Farmers Victorious in Landmark Legal Battle Over Wind Turbine Noise