Alerts and Events: Noise
These postings are provided to help publicize the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
Action alerts, Comments, England, Noise •
Source: Den Brook Judicial Review Group
RES aim to drastically change all-important amplitude modulation (AM) noise conditions
A long-threatened planning application obviously aimed to demolish our unprecedented noise planning condition has been submitted to the West Devon Borough Council. It is now perfectly clear that corporate developer Renewable Energy Systems’ (RES) primary intent is for protecting corporate welfare rather than the well-being of local communities surrounding the proposed nine 120 metres (394 feet) high Den Brook wind turbines. For more than 18 months we have been cajoled with specious evidence of false positives, threats of unenforceability and . . .
List of papers: Wind Turbine Noise 2013
5th International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise — 28-30 August 2013 — Denver, Colorado. windturbinenoise2013.org Below is a current list of papers accepted. This gives an indication of the programme content but is not finalised and it does not indicate the order of presentations. RoBin: An Efficient System to Fulfil the IEC 61400-11 Standard and Measure the Acoustic Emission of Wind Turbines with a Single Operator Advanced Methods for Qualifying Background Noise Around Wind Farms Broadband Noise Prediction of Small . . .
Australia, Health, Law, Newsletters, Noise, Property values •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
Stockyardhill Industrial Wind Development Update
Origin Energy has increased the turbine size by 75% without any community consultation and no new background noise monitoring or modeling being undertaken. The original permit approval for the turbine size was 2MW, now Origin is installing 3-3.5MW turbines – currently the biggest in the world. Neither the State or Federal Government, nor the Pyrenees Shire have insisted on a new Noise Impact Assessment to take into account the increase in size which will lead to more infrasound, noise and . . .
Australia, Health, Newsletters, Noise •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
What we know already but the Wind industry are trying to hide
We know wind turbines generate audible, low frequency and infrasound noise and vibration. This has been measured inside and outside of sufferers’ homes. We know health problems (totally new, or old afflictions aggravated) start to appear around wind projects sited in most rural settings with turbines of 0.6MW or larger, co-incident with the start up of operations. We know that the health problems continue to emerge in more people and intensify as time exposure increases. We know that increasing turbine . . .
Australia, Health, Newsletters, Noise •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
Recent developments on wind turbine noise and health
Our understanding of the clinical patterns of illness and the acoustics of wind turbine noise has increased significantly over the last year. We now understand that much of the pathology being reported by residents is related to chronic sleep deprivation and chronic physiological stress, in addition to the vestibular disorder symptoms which have been called “wind turbine syndrome” and include nausea, vertigo, balance disorders, ear pressure, and headaches. Recent work by Professor Con Doolan at Waterloo wind development in South . . .
Wind Turbine Noise 2013
28-30 August 2013 Marriott City Centre Hotel, Denver, USA This will be the 5th in a series of international conferences which will once again provide a venue for all those with an interest in wind turbine noise, and its effects on people, to meet together and also meet with those who design wind turbine installations, both in industry and in the planning process. This conference is organised by INCE/Europe in co-operation with the Institute of Noise Control Engineering–USA whose Noise . . .
WIND RUSH: A Look at the Wind Turbine Controversy
On CBC TV’s Doc Zone, Thursday, February 7, 9PM and (CBC News Network) Saturday, February 9, 11PM [See video clips below.] Driving by a wind farm, looking at the rural houses, it’s easy to be skeptical about the talk of wind turbines making people sick. We’re told that wind turbines are good and green. So how could those people living by them have an issue? But there is a problem — and it’s there because some governments and wind companies . . .
