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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Re: Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/re-wind-turbine-health-impact-study-report-of-independent-expert-panel/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krogh, Carmen</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this letter is to respond to the Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel of January 2012 that was prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Department of Public Health. I would like to share excerpts from Ontario, Canada experiences regarding the serious risks to health that can occur when industrial wind turbines are sited in close proximity to residents. As background, I have held senior executive positions at a teaching hospital, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Turbine Health Impact Study Is Junk Science</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbine-health-impact-study-is-junk-science/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hartman, Raymond</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[[Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel, January 2012, prepared for: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Department of Public Health] Junk Science: What Is It? “Junk science is faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special interests and hidden agendas.” General Examples “Government regulators may use junk science to expand their regulatory authority, increase their budgets or advance the political agenda of elected officials.” “Businesses may use junk science to bad-mouth competitors’ products, make bogus .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatic view of a wind turbine noise standard</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/pragmatic-view-of-a-wind-turbine-noise-standard/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dickinson, Philip</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract New Zealand Standard 6808:2010 Acoustics – Wind farm noise is unique in that it acknowledges, up front under committee representation, that a representative of a university involved in its development does not support the Standard. Since that time a number of papers and presentations have decried this opposition to the Standard without giving the committee member the privilege of comment or reply. This paper is to put the record straight and explain why the Standard is not supported. Wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Letter to Riga Township Planning Commission</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/letter-to-riga-township-planning-commission/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On request of interested parties in Riga Township, I am writing to provide important information about siting wind turbines to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety. I am a Member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering with over thirty years of experience in acoustics including many years working in industrial power generation noise control. I have conducted independent studies of wind turbine noise including actual field measurements of operating wind turbines in the State of Maine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Why is sharp-limited low-frequency noise extremely annoying?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/why-is-sharp-limited-low-frequency-noise-extremely-annoying/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krahé, Detlef</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[[Introduction] Low-frequency noise (LFN) is sound focused in the frequency range below ~100 Hz. For example, in Germany sound is defined as low frequency if the C- and A-weighted sound pressure level (SPL) differs by more than 20 dB. For a growing number of people LFN is an urgent problem, and many questions remain unanswered: Why does LFN seem to be a greater problem today than in the past? Are people more sensitive? Is LFN increasing? It can be assumed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>McPherson Study: The Infrasound Smoking Gun</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mcpherson-study-the-infrasound-smoking-gun/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gulden, Wayne</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract McPherson is the first (and so far only) study to specifically look for the presence of excessive infrasound due to nearby wind turbines in a home that was identified by the owners as having a problem.* Two professional acousticians, Robert Rand and Steven Ambrose, lived in the home for 3 days during which they took detailed measurements of the infrasound and noted its effects upon themselves. They discovered that the infrasound often crossed the threshold of detection by the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind Turbines and Proximity to Homes: The Impact of Wind Turbine Noise on Health</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbines-and-proximity-to-homes/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A review of the literature &#038; discussion of the issues ~~ This paper addresses not only the issues of wind energy policy where it violates the basic living environment of families and the adverse health effects ofwind turbine noise, but also assesses the considerable number of anecdotal reports from people living with wind turbine noise. As noted in the authors&#8217; 2007 paper, although there are many who dismiss anecdotal reports as inconsequential or meaningless, these reports are from real people, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Response to HGC Literature Review</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/response-to-hgc-literature-review/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harrison, John</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Response to “Low Frequency Noise and Infrasound Associated with Wind Turbine Generator Systems – A Literature Review” Also see: “Compliance Protocol for Wind Turbine Noise &#8211; Guideline for Acoustic Assessment and Measurement” Introduction The low frequency report, prepared by Howe Gastmeier Chapnik Ltd. was commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), released in draft form in August 2010, released in final form to MOE in December 2010 and to the public in August 2011. Why MOE is issuing it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<title>Peer review of acoustic assessment, Flyers Creek wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/peer-review-of-acoustic-assessment-flyers-creek-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Acoustic Group</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Acoustic Group has performed a desk-top review of the acoustic documents comprising the acoustic assessment for the Flyers Creek Wind Farm. Further, The Acoustic Group has conducted preliminary sound monitoring at an existing operational wind farm (the Capital Wind Farm) which was approved in New South Wales on the basis of similar analyses, guidelines and reports to that provided for the Flyers Creek Wind Farm. The conclusions of the Acoustic Group are set out below. The Background .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Nina Pierpont interviews acoustician Stephen Ambrose</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/nina-pierpont-interviews-acoustician-stephen-ambrose/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierpont, Nina</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Nina Pierpont, PhD (Princeton), MD (Johns Hopkins), interviews acoustician Stephen Ambrose on his work. She asks him about the strange malady that plagued him after he went to work taking sound measurements at a house near a 1.65-MW Vestas wind turbine where the residents were complaining of bad health since the turbine went on line. He tells Dr. Pierpont that even while setting up in the house he began to feel strangely unwell, as did his co-worker. Something is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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