Swedish Study Proves Pulsing Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise Causes Sleep Deprivation

  For those unfortunates forced to live with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, the cause of their inability to sleep is no mystery. Following the same trail being blazed by the Max Planck Institute in Germany which found infrasound exposure as the scientific cause of stress, sleep disruption and much more - Wind Farm … Continue reading Swedish Study Proves Pulsing Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise Causes Sleep Deprivation

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

My Enemy Flicker: Neighbour’s Video Depicts Misery of Life in Wind Turbine’s Pulsing Shadow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQksc1-5Zoc For those unfortunates forced to live cheek-by-jowl with these things, it isn't just incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound that drives neighbours nuts. At sunrise or sunset, those with turbines on their doorstep find shadow flicker - the pulsing beams of light that compete with rolling darkness inside their homes - is just … Continue reading My Enemy Flicker: Neighbour’s Video Depicts Misery of Life in Wind Turbine’s Pulsing Shadow

New York Revolution: Councillor Joins Community Backlash Against Planned Wind Power Projects

Across the Land of the Free, there is a seething tide of frustration and anger that has seen thousands of community defenders rally in order to keep it that way; from Arkansas to Ohio and everywhere in between. New York is just the latest State to have misjudged the resolve of people out to protect … Continue reading New York Revolution: Councillor Joins Community Backlash Against Planned Wind Power Projects

First Strike: Communities Threatened by Wind Farms Gathering Own Noise Data to Later Sue Turbine Hosts & Developers in Nuisance

Over the last few weeks there has been an uptick in chatter about long dormant wind farm projects being resurrected, which has more to do with anxious developers hoping to offload their projects than any kind of renewed confidence in Australia’s precarious renewable energy policies. In the main, this rush of panicked activity is about … Continue reading First Strike: Communities Threatened by Wind Farms Gathering Own Noise Data to Later Sue Turbine Hosts & Developers in Nuisance

Undeniable Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Serious Adverse Health Effects

A couple of years back, STT produced a timeline which highlighted how the wind industry and its pet acoustic consultants managed to set up 'rules' which have no relevance to the noise impacts experienced by wind farm neighbours and under which wind power outfits could ride roughshod over rural communities with complete impunity. That post … Continue reading Undeniable Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Serious Adverse Health Effects

Victory in Vermont: Community Defenders Crush Wind Power Outfit’s Plan to Destroy Pristine Mountain Range

*** STT has covered the fight by Vermonters to save their pristine Green Mountains from the scourge of industrial wind turbines, many times. In this post we share in their delight, as they celebrate their successful battle to save the Herrick Mountain range in Ira and Poultney, next to Birdseye Mountain from 60 of these … Continue reading Victory in Vermont: Community Defenders Crush Wind Power Outfit’s Plan to Destroy Pristine Mountain Range

Denmark’s Wind Farm Revolt: Danes Demand & Get Ban on New Wind Turbines

Denmark is the home of the original eco-fascist profiteers – Vestas – the struggling turbine maker – run by by a band of crooks – once exhorted the world to “Act on (its parallel universe version of the) Facts”: paying $millions to the Australian Greens and Trotskyite fronts like Getup! & Co – pitching lies … Continue reading Denmark’s Wind Farm Revolt: Danes Demand & Get Ban on New Wind Turbines

Wind Turbine Ice Capades: German Wind Farm Neighbour Cheats Death, Dodging Flying Ice Chunks

*** Over the last few weeks German wind turbines have been stubbornly refusing to produce much power at all, while a frightening number have, instead, determined to completely self-destruct, with a rash of collapses, component liberation events (aka blade throws) and self-immolations (see our post here and below). Adding a distinctly cool flavour to the … Continue reading Wind Turbine Ice Capades: German Wind Farm Neighbour Cheats Death, Dodging Flying Ice Chunks