Peace At Last: Neighbours Enjoy First Decent Sleep In Years After Wind Turbine Shutdown

There is no doubt that the thumping, grinding, mechanical cacophony generated by giant industrial wind turbines drives neighbours nuts. But trying to explain wind turbine noise to someone who has never had to live with it, is like trying to explain a migraine to someone who has never had a headache. A study from Flinders University […]

Plan to Fight/Fight to Win: Top Tips On How To Tackle Wind Developers Head On

Fighting back is the only way to tackle Big Wind when its goonish developers are threatening to wreck your community. America’s rural communities have won a string of victories by working together, getting organised and getting lawyers involved early. As a result, pro-community and pro-reliable energy groups are on the ascendant in the US. At […]

Supremely Callous: Wind Farm Operators Treatment of Noise-Affected Neighbours a Total Disgrace

The wind industry is peopled by special kind of monster; he’s the character who will steal your home right out from underneath you, smiling all the while. You’ll find his key attributes drawn out in the DSM under the chapter on sociopaths. For anyone with a shred of humanity, compassion and decency dealing with people […]

Unnecessary Night-time Nuisance: Why Wind Turbine Noise Is So Much More Annoying After Dark

Delivering a thumping, grinding, mechanical cacophony, industrial wind turbines drive neighbours nuts. But, as a recent study from Flinders University in South Australia has found, there’s a reason why wind turbine noise is so much worse after dark. The pulsing, thumping nature of wind turbine noise – which relates to blades passing the tower – […]

Germany’s Renewable Energy Disaster – Part 4: ‘Social Disaster’: Wind Turbines Wrecking Rural Communities

Germany’s wind and solar experiment has failed: the so-called ‘Energiewende’ (energy transition) has turned into an insanely costly debacle. German power prices have rocketed; blackouts and load shedding are the norm; and idyllic rural communities are now industrial wastelands (see above). Hundreds of billions of euros have been squandered on subsidies to wind and solar, all in […]

Malicious Torture: Macarthur Wind Farm Neigbours Continue to Suffer, as AGL Dodges Damning Acoustic Evidence

The incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound from AGL’s Macarthur wind farm in western Victoria has been driving neighbours nuts or out of their homes since December 2012. Having been lied to and bullied for just as long, one of AGL’s victims (and an STT Champion) Annie Gardner let rip with this stinging rebuke, […]

Wind Industry in Fresh Panic: German’s Deliver ‘Smoking Gun’ Infrasound Research

**** To say that the wind industry is having a ‘tough’ time of late, is to downplay what is odds-on to be the biggest and fastest implosion, since the Hindenburg took less than a fiery minute to burn its way into the pages of tragic history. In Australia, the wind industry has been belted with […]

US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case

**** A telling-scene there, from the film A Civil Action; which is pretty much how things panned out for a US wind farm operator in Michigan recently. STT has been following a monumental piece of litigation that blew up over the Lake Winds wind farm in Mason County, for a while now (see our posts […]

Danish Experts: Sleep Deprivation the Most Common Adverse Health Effect Caused by Wind Turbine Noise

Dr Jesper Hvass Schmidt MD PhD is a Ear-Nose-Throat Specialist who works with the Institute of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark, as well as at the Odense University Hospital, in Denmark – working with the Department of Audiology and Ear-Nose-Throat Head and Neck Surgery. His specialisation is studying the hearing problems of musicians. Dr Mads Klokker MD is another Ear-Nose-Throat Specialist […]

UK Plan to Ban Noisy Wind Farms

Noisy wind farms face ban as ministers launch review into ‘annoying’ sound levels The Telegraph Emily Godsen 30 November 2014 Exclusive: Energy department commissions review into disturbance from turbine noise in order to decide when annoyance becomes unacceptable  Noisy wind farms that disturb local communities could be banned, after ministers launched an unprecedented review into […]