Wind farm noise ‘guidelines’ (written by the industry’s pet consultants) never survive first contact with careful legal scrutiny. In the Victorian Bald Hills case, Justice Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court not only ordered the wind farm operator to shut down its turbines at night to limit the noise nuisance they created, her Honour slammed … Continue reading Licence Cancelled: Top French Court Strikes Down Unlawful Wind Farm Planning Rules
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Mortal Combat: Rural Communities Rally to Defeat Wind Industry’s Steamroller Strategy
Nothing invokes rage and fury in rural communities like a wind farm comprising dozens and sometimes hundreds of 300 tonne, 200-270m high industrial monstrosities. Western Victoria has been overrun with these things; once peaceful pastoral properties are encircled by them, and drowned in a cacophony of thumping, grinding low-frequency turbine noise. The wind industry and … Continue reading Mortal Combat: Rural Communities Rally to Defeat Wind Industry’s Steamroller Strategy
Government’s Wind Industry Protection Racket: Wind Farm Noise ‘Rules’ A Sick Joke
Around the world, pliant governments allowed the wind industry to create utterly meaningless wind turbine noise ‘rules’ that allow wind power outfits to get away with murder. Giant industrial wind turbines deliver a merciless, thumping, grinding cacophony of daily torment to families forced to live next to them. And if you think pocketing cash in … Continue reading Government’s Wind Industry Protection Racket: Wind Farm Noise ‘Rules’ A Sick Joke
Vindicated: Supreme Court Slams Developer For Ignoring Wind Turbine Noise Effects on Neighbours
Call it the ‘luck of the Irish’. Over the last few months locals have racked up a string of victories against wind power outfits for all manner of sins, crimes and misdemeanours. In November the Irish government was slammed with a €5 million fine for failing to apply its very own environmental standards at a … Continue reading Vindicated: Supreme Court Slams Developer For Ignoring Wind Turbine Noise Effects on Neighbours
Residents Revolt: South Australia’s Wind Farm Planning Rules ‘Rotten to the Core’
Like Germany, rural South Australia was quickly carpeted with a multitude of these things; like Germany its long-suffering rural residents have had enough noise torment to last a lifetime. In SA (as elsewhere) the so-called ‘noise guidelines’ and planning ‘rules’ were rigged in favour of the wind industry, from the get go. And to … Continue reading Residents Revolt: South Australia’s Wind Farm Planning Rules ‘Rotten to the Core’
MP Demands Wind Farm Moratorium: Rigged & Pointless Noise Rules ‘Rotten to the Core’
The wind industry is what it is thanks to naïve, gullible and pliant politicians. But not every MP drank the Kool-Aid. One who didn’t is SA Best Member of the Legislative Council, Connie Bonaros. South Australia is the place that set and met its very own ludicrous 50% Renewable Energy Target. For that it … Continue reading MP Demands Wind Farm Moratorium: Rigged & Pointless Noise Rules ‘Rotten to the Core’
WHO Says Wind Turbines a ‘Health Hazard’? The World Health Organization, That’s WHO
The recent release of the World Health Organization's Environmental Noise Guidelines for Europe has the wind industry in a flat panic. The Guidelines - available here - have nominated exposure to wind turbine noise as “More than a nuisance” it’s “a health risk – contributing to cardiovascular diseases, for example”: Wind Industry Panics as Class Actions Loom: … Continue reading WHO Says Wind Turbines a ‘Health Hazard’? The World Health Organization, That’s WHO
Corrupt Consultants Ensure Wind Power Capital, South Australia has World’s Worst Wind Turbine Noise ‘Rules’
Over the last decade, the wind industry has ridden roughshod over the rights of law-abiding citizens to live peacefully in their very own homes. The battle that’s followed proves that the value of any right is determined by the beneficiaries’ determination to fight for it. Giant industrial wind turbines deliver a cacophony of pulsing, practically … Continue reading Corrupt Consultants Ensure Wind Power Capital, South Australia has World’s Worst Wind Turbine Noise ‘Rules’
Why Pulsing Wind Turbine Noise Causes Nightmares For Neighbours
Starting over 30 years ago, the wind industry established noise rules deliberately designed to allow it to operate with complete impunity, while punishing wind farm neighbours with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound: Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge In December last year, … Continue reading Why Pulsing Wind Turbine Noise Causes Nightmares For Neighbours
Getting Away with Murder: How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise Rules Around the World
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; and, … Continue reading Getting Away with Murder: How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise Rules Around the World
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