Resource Library Category: Ireland
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Yvonne Sheehan’s daily diary 2008, Part 2
Author: Sheehan, Yvonne
Noise diary update, Jan. 31 to Feb. 17, 2008, Rock Chapel, Co Cork, Ireland.
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Update: Yvonne Sheehan’s daily diary 2008 — Part 2
Author: Sheehan, Yvonne
This continued report from Yvonne Sheehan’s nightmare includes many sound readings showing high levels of low-frequency noise.
January 31 — February 17, 2008
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Yvonne Sheehan's daily diary January 2008
Author: Sheehan, Yvonne
List of illness that I am suffering:
Pain in ears and all down jaw. Hearing in right ear almost none. Pain in muscles and joints. Headaches. Dizziness. Vertigo. Loss of concentration. Stress. Depression. Very short tempered, Anger flare-ups. Pains in chest and excessive wind, (this causes me to be short of breath). Disturbed sleep. Constantly being woke at night. Unable to get to sleep. Very tired due to lack of sleep. No energy. Numbness and Tingling in the fingers and constantly . . .
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Turbine related illness
Author: Sheehan, Yvonne
To one and all,
My name is Yvonne Sheehan and I moved to Rock Chapel Co Cork Ireland 3-1/2 years ago. No planning of turbines in sight. Now I have to put up with 11 massive ones and am going through hell. My symptoms are as follows:
Headaches all the time, whooshing sound and pain in my ears and all down my jaw, nausea, dizziness, vertigo, tingling of the . . .
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KLADEA documents on wind turbine impacts
Author: Schorn, Brigitte
Wind Energy is not free, clean and green energy, as we have been led to believe.
The minimal electricity contribution from wind turbines comes at a huge cost not just in financial terms, but also in terms of the immeasurable irreversible damage this industry does to:
People’s Health and Quality of Life (see all reports)
Wildlife (see Ireland and UK report)
Our environment (see all reports)
Property prices (see all reports)
Tourism (see Germany report)
From our extensive research conducted over the past 14 months, we have . . .
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Windfarm Developments on Blanket Bog
Author: Phillips, John
A cautionary tale from Derrybrien, Co Galway, and pointers for safeguards needed when similar developments are proposed for the United Kingdom –
A substantial bogslide took place at Hibernian Wind Power’s 71-tower wind farm at Derrybrien, Co Galway on 16 October 2003 when nearly half a million tonnes of peat, boulder clay and vegetation slumped from an area of felled plantation forest. Two weeks later, following heavy rainfall, a stream in spate churned the peat into a mobile slurry and cascaded . . .
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Politics of Peat
Author: Scottish Wind Assessment Project (SWAP)
Lessons from the Derrybrien landslide
One of Ireland’s largest wind-power sites is the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) scheme on Cashlaundrumlahan, the highest, at 368m, of the Slieve Aughty Mountains in Co Galway. A 71-turbine, 60 MW project built on 850 acres of blanket bog, it lies about a kilometre north of Derrybrien, near Gort. …
Three months into the project, on October 16 [2003], about half a million tonnes of bog began to slide from a turbine base on the south of the . . .
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Wind energy planning guidelines
Author: Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
These guidelines from Ireland outline the very many impacts to be considered in siting a wind power facility. Their recommendation for noise limits at neighboring residences is 5 dB(A) above the ambient level, or where the ambient level is below 30 dB(A) an absolute limit of 35-40 db(A). They suggest the limits be much lower at night.
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Impact of Wind Power Generation In Ireland
Author: ESB National Grid
This study by the Irish grid manager finds that the benefits of wind-generated power are small and that they decrease as more wind power is added to the system. Their model generously assumes that all energy produced from wind facilities would be used and did not consider output fluctuations within time periods of less than an hour.
They describe three problems that mitigate the benefits of wind power:
» large amount of extra energy required to start up thermal generators that would . . .
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