*** For far too many acoustic engineers ethics runs a poor second to pocketing fat piles of easy cash from the wind industry for knocking out noise reports that (always) show 'compliance' with the noise conditions of planning consents - even if that requires fabricating data - as occurred at the Waubra and Cape Bridgewater … Continue reading Needless Human Suffering the Price of Wind Industry Corruption
Tag: Professor Colin Hansen
STT’s Australian of the Year Awards 2016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i15OPuFvmA **** Australians are a weird mob - as demonstrated by that, somewhat militaristic, culinary mash up; detailing 'Operation Boomerang' - a top-level mission to extract expats from far-flung, lamb-free-zones and return them to mouth-watering, succulent barbecued delights. The fact that Aussies love our lamb, and frown on vegans, upsets the PC Police, but then … Continue reading STT’s Australian of the Year Awards 2016
Top Acoustics Professor Calls for Full Compensation for Wind Farm Victims, as Council Calls for “National Noise Cops”
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud hits the road tomorrow, 30 March – starting at Portland, Victoria (in the TAFE campus on Hurd Street from 8.30am) – the town next door to Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater disaster. The hearing gives long-suffering residents there – and from elsewhere – a chance … Continue reading Top Acoustics Professor Calls for Full Compensation for Wind Farm Victims, as Council Calls for “National Noise Cops”
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
“Unscheduled” Wind Farm Shut-Down Shows Low-Frequency Noise Impact at Waterloo, SA
**** One of the major obstacles faced by acoustic experts when trying to do meaningful wind turbine 'noise' testing is the dogged refusal of wind farm operators to provide wind speed and operational data. Moreover, wind power outfits have resisted, with granite-like tenacity, quite reasonable calls by noise experts to shut down their turbines (ie … Continue reading “Unscheduled” Wind Farm Shut-Down Shows Low-Frequency Noise Impact at Waterloo, SA
Wind Farms Turn Scottish Highland Homes Into Sonic Torture Traps
An ill wind blows as the surge of turbines stirs fears of silent danger to our health Scottish Express Paula Murray 10 August 2014 TENS of thousands of Scots may be suffering from a hidden sickness epidemic caused by wind farms, campaigners have warned. The Sunday Express can reveal that the Scottish Government has recently … Continue reading Wind Farms Turn Scottish Highland Homes Into Sonic Torture Traps
Prof Hansen slams Public Health Authority Australia as misleading and deceptive
Michael Moore is the CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) - a group of ecofacists hell bent on lobbing giant fans in everyone else's backyard, except of course their own. Michael Moore - along with our favourite tobacco advertising guru - copped an almighty blast from Alby 'The Sheriff' Schultz in … Continue reading Prof Hansen slams Public Health Authority Australia as misleading and deceptive
Prof Hansen: 11 good reasons why EPA noise guidelines are rubbish
From the South Australian Environmental Protection Authority web site: The EPA plays a role in protecting the community from exposure to unacceptable noise levels. We set policies and guidelines for industry and the community, and work closely with other organisations such as local councils and police to respond to community concerns about noise. The EPA … Continue reading Prof Hansen: 11 good reasons why EPA noise guidelines are rubbish
Prof Colin Hansen hammers SA EPA’s Waterloo Noise-Wash
**** Long-suffering Waterloo residents waited years to get South Australia’s rotten little EPA to even consider taking seriously their complaints about incessant low-frequency noise and infra-sound generated by Truenergy’s (aka Energy Australia) fleet of 37 giant fans. STT Champion, Mary Morris led the charge with a cracking letter pointing out the EPA’s legal responsibility to … Continue reading Prof Colin Hansen hammers SA EPA’s Waterloo Noise-Wash
Mary Morris – STT Champion of Champions
STT readers will know how tough and persistent Mary Morris is from posts like this: A letter to the Environment Protection Authority, South Australia. When it comes to protecting her tight-knit little community at Waterloo, Mary will never ever back down. Back in January, South Australia’s rotten little EPA promised to do a detailed acoustic … Continue reading Mary Morris – STT Champion of Champions
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