**** Australia is blessed with a former tobacco advertising guru who is paid a packet by wind power outfits - like near-bankrupt Infigen - to pedal a story that the adverse health impacts caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound (such as sleep deprivation) are the product of “scare-mongering” – which, on his … Continue reading Dr Bruce Rapley tells Senate: Wind Farm Nocebo Story “Nefarious Pseudoscience” & an “Insult to Intelligence”
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Australia’s PM – Tony Abbott – Out to STOP THESE THINGS
**** Australia’s PM, Tony Abbott has never had a soft spot for the wind industry (see our posts here and here). Now, he’s effectively set fire to its chances of obtaining the finance it needs to carpet Australia with another 2,500 giant fans. The match was lit on Alan Jones’ breakfast Show last Thursday. Alan … Continue reading Australia’s PM – Tony Abbott – Out to STOP THESE THINGS
US Wind Farm Litigation: Update on the Falmouth Case
**** Back in November 2013, we reported on the orders made by a Court in Falmouth, Massachusetts that pulled to a halt the operation of a couple of giant fans that have been driving townspeople nuts since they kicked into gear over 5 years ago (see our post here). We've also reported on Barry Funfar, … Continue reading US Wind Farm Litigation: Update on the Falmouth Case
Scots MP – John Lamont – Calls for Just Compensation for Wind Farm Victims
**** There is something about an industry that believes it can deprive people of the use and benefit of their homes with complete impunity. The idea that wind power outfits can run their operations around the clock, depriving people of their right to sleep so as to drive them mad if they are forced (by … Continue reading Scots MP – John Lamont – Calls for Just Compensation for Wind Farm Victims
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
Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
**** In the three weeks or so that have passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here) the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in absolute panic mode. Pacific Hydro - the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
**** With Steven Cooper's Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry - always prickly when it comes to fronting up to "inconvenient" facts (see our post here) - is more defensive than ever. In Australia, one long-running "inconvenience" for … Continue reading David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
Wind Farm Victims – Ocotillo, California: Wind Turbine Noise is a “Horror Beyond Words”
Ocotillo Residents say Wind Turbine Noise Creates “LIVING HELL” eastcountymagazine.org 14 November 2014 “It’s a horror beyond words; something you have to live to understand. Something must be done to stop the noise.” – Ocotillo resident Parke Ewing November 14, 2014 (Ocotillo) – Residents in Ocotillo say that during windy conditions in early November, noise … Continue reading Wind Farm Victims – Ocotillo, California: Wind Turbine Noise is a “Horror Beyond Words”
Punch & James: Adverse Health Effects from Industrial Wind Turbines
**** Dr Jerry Punch is an audiologist and Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Since his retirement in 2011, he has become actively involved as a private audiological consultant in areas related to his long-standing interest in community noise. Richard James is an acoustical consultant with over … Continue reading Punch & James: Adverse Health Effects from Industrial Wind Turbines
Macarthur Wind Farm Disaster: Jim Doukas Slams Fellow Moyne Shire Councillors’ Utter Contempt for Victims
**** Moyne councillor Jim Doukas critical of Macarthur wind farm report The Standard Anthony Brady 30 October 2014 A DEFIANT Moyne Shire councillor angered his fellow councillors but delighted the wind farm critics during a heated exchange in the council chambers this week. A large gallery of wind farm critics cheered on Jim Doukas when … Continue reading Macarthur Wind Farm Disaster: Jim Doukas Slams Fellow Moyne Shire Councillors’ Utter Contempt for Victims
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