Resource Library Category: Health
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.
Industrial Wind Factories in George Washington National Forest
Author: West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Public lands in Pendleton, Hardy, and Grant Counties, W.V., and August, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties, Va. — a fact sheet with sources.
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Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin: Part 9
Author: Anon.
By courtesy of Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
Interview with Scott Smrynka, dairy farmer, Lincoln Township, Wisconsin. See transcript below (again, thanks to Better Plan).
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Scott Smrynka speaking about stray voltage trouble on his farm: [Video image: an ohm reader with flickering numbers] This is a five hundred ohms resistor here, this wire is hooked to my stall, this white wire . . .
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Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin: Part 8
Author: Anon.
By courtesy of Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
Interview with Arlin Montfils, Supervisor, Lincoln Township, Wisconsin. See transcript below (again, thanks to Better Plan).
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Arlin Montfils: We knew nothing, really, about them. The company said, well– they imposed an 800 foot set-back from the nearest resident.
Q: Not from their property line, but from their home.
The nearest resident. I believe that’s what it . . .
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Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin: Part 5
Author: Anon.
Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin: Part 5
By courtesy of Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
Interview with Gerry Meyer, Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. See transcript below (again, thanks to Better Plan). Click here for the Meyer family’s daily log of the wind turbine noise and its effects.
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GERRY: Well I’ve been keeping a daily log and I think it . . .
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The "how to" guide to criteria for siting wind turbines to prevent health risks from sound
Author: Kamperman, George; and James, Rick
Version 1.0, July 30, 2008
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Simple guidelines for siting wind turbines to prevent health risks
Author: Kamperman, George; and James, Rick
Paper presented at Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE) NOISE-CON 2008, July 28-31, 2008
George W. Kamperman, INCE Bd. Cert. Emeritus, INCE Kamperman Associates, Inc., george@kamperman.com
Richard R. James, E-Coustic Solutions, rickjames@e-coustic.com
Rev. 1.0, July 27, 2008
Industrial scale wind turbines are a familiar part of the landscape in Europe, U.K., and other parts of the world. In the U.S., however, similar industrial-scale wind energy developments are just beginning operation. The presence of industrial wind projects will increase dramatically over the next few years . . .
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Brownsville Diary, March 3 to July 7, 2008
Author: Meyer family
Entries of a noise log kept by a Brownsville family who live 3/4 mile east of South Byron in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The new wind turbines had just gone on line there.
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Click here for updated diary through August 5, 2008.
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Amendments to Calumet County, Wis., ordinance
Author: Calumet County, Wis., Board of Supervisors
These amendments concerning noise and setbacks from wind energy systems were approved into law on March 18, 2008. Includes thorough guidelines for pre- and post-construction noise measurements and estimates of impact from wind turbines.
“The audible sound emitted by Wind Energy System operations shall not be greater than 5 dBA above the background noise level (L90) for the quietest period of the day measured during the pre-build noise study.”
“No low frequency sound or infrasound from wind energy system operations shall be . . .
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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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Brownsville Diary, March 3 to April 22, 2008
Author: Meyer family
Entries of a noise log kept by a Brownsville family who live 3/4 mile east of South Byron in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The new wind turbines have just gone on line there.
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Click here for update to May 13, 2008.