The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany’s Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it’s the … Continue reading Wake in Fright: Wind Turbine Infrasound Causes Panic, Fear & Nightmares
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Beggar Thy Neighbour: Wind Industry Uses Subsidies to Steal Family Homes
In Australia, hundreds of law-abiding rural citizens have had their valuable property rights permanently destroyed by wind power outfits – with knowing assistance from all levels of government. Jan Hetherington (above) is just one of them: AGL’s Renewable Energy Future: Driving Wind Farm Neighbours From Their Homes Without Compensation Property values for those unfortunate enough to … Continue reading Beggar Thy Neighbour: Wind Industry Uses Subsidies to Steal Family Homes
Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration Causing Harm to Humans & Animals Alike
For those unfortunates forced to live with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, the cause of the sleep deprivation they suffer is no mystery. Moreover, a menagerie of domestic and wild animals stuck next to wind turbines suffer similar effects, including well-documented increases in the stress hormone cortisol (see our post here). Dr Mariana … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration Causing Harm to Humans & Animals Alike
AGL’s Renewable Energy Future: Driving Wind Farm Neighbours From Their Homes Without Compensation
Over the past couple of months, AGL has bombarded TV viewers with propaganda claiming that its push to wallow in the massive and endless subsidies ladled out to wind and solar power generators comes “with no compromises to you”. A more accurate way of putting it would be that AGL will make no compromise, … Continue reading AGL’s Renewable Energy Future: Driving Wind Farm Neighbours From Their Homes Without Compensation
Locals Ecstatic: Judge Shuts Down Falmouth Wind Turbines
The long-running saga of Falmouth's two community tormentors has turned a corner, towards decency and human compassion. Falmouth ordered to shut down turbines Cape Cod Times Ethan Genter 20 June 2017 BARNSTABLE — A Barnstable Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the town of Falmouth to shut down two town-owned wind turbines. Judge Cornelius Moriarty … Continue reading Locals Ecstatic: Judge Shuts Down Falmouth Wind Turbines
The Monstrous ‘Ethics’ of the Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants
The acoustic consultants who have made $millions from writing utterly irrelevant noise ‘rules’ and defending them in front of planning courts and panels will never be accused of acting ethically. Their clients demand compliance reports that are made-to-measure, and they are happy to oblige, by either causing data to disappear or simply changing the numbers … Continue reading The Monstrous ‘Ethics’ of the Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants
Wealth of Scientific Evidence Shows Wind Turbine Noise Wrecks Sleep & Health
The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany's Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it's the … Continue reading Wealth of Scientific Evidence Shows Wind Turbine Noise Wrecks Sleep & Health
Beetaloo Backlash: Local Council Joins Fight to Stop French Wind Power Developer Wrecking Another South Australian Community
The Beetaloo Valley, to the south-west of Laura, is yet another idyllic rural community nestled in the rolling hills of South Australia’s mid-North threatened by a foreign-owned wind power outfit. A few weeks back, STT reported on efforts by the defenders of that community to prevent its destruction by a French wind power outfit, Neoen … Continue reading Beetaloo Backlash: Local Council Joins Fight to Stop French Wind Power Developer Wrecking Another South Australian Community
Kiwi Community Backlash Forces Wind Farm Shutdown & Gets All New Noise Rules
*** Kiwis fight. And we are not talking about the dowdy little flightless birds that scurry about on the forest floor at night. The Maori are a people who fought their British colonists to a standstill in the early 19th century and forced upon them the Treaty of Waitangi, which enshrined terms the envy of … Continue reading Kiwi Community Backlash Forces Wind Farm Shutdown & Gets All New Noise Rules
Neighbours Sue Wind Power Operator – Infigen – for $20m Damages Caused by Devastating Wind Farm Fire
On 17 January 2017, wind farm operator Infigen sparked a blaze that ripped across the southern Tablelands of NSW and destroyed 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres), hundreds of sheep and cattle, sheds and at least one home. STT first reported on it on 25 January: Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire … Continue reading Neighbours Sue Wind Power Operator – Infigen – for $20m Damages Caused by Devastating Wind Farm Fire
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