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Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Final Report — Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines 
FULL LIST OF FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation 1 The committee recommends that an Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Industrial Sound (IESC) be established by law, through provisions similar to those which provide for the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development. The provisions establishing the IESC on Industrial Sound should state that the Scientific Committee must conduct ‘independent, multi-disciplinary research into the adverse impacts and risks to individual and community health and wellbeing associated with . . . Complete article »

Swinbanks, Malcolm; and Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Malcolm Swinbanks before the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines 
Dr Swinbanks:  Just briefly, I will review the submission that I made. I addressed four separate issues: first of all, the physical mechanisms for generating low-frequency sound and infrasound; secondly, the mechanisms by which people can perceive such infrasound; thirdly, I commented on the health effects and, in particular, two reports relating to these supposed health effects or the absence of them; and, finally, I gave an account of my own personal experience of adverse effects I have encountered when . . . Complete article »

Swinbanks, Malcolm; and Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Malcolm Swinbanks: Questions Taken on Notice 
Q1. You mention the NASA wind turbine research of the 1980s. Is that relevant to the type of wind turbines used today? Research into very large (multi-megawatt) wind turbines began at NASA in 1975. Much of this work was undertaken by very competent aero-acousticians, drawing on experience gained in the context of propeller and jet-engine development, and which has successfully resulted in substantial improvements in aero-engine noise. They identified at an early stage why the existing “downwind rotor” turbines were . . . Complete article »

McMurty, Robert; and Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Robert McMurtry before the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines 
CHAIR:  I now welcome Dr Bob McMurtry by teleconference. For the Hansard record, will you please state your name and the capacity in which you appear. Dr McMurtry:  My name is Robert Younghusband McMurtry. The capacity in which I appear today is as an independent witness: I am Professor Emeritus of Western University in London, Ontario, and I have been researching and reviewing this topic for the past eight years; I probably have put in over 10,000 hours over those . . . Complete article »

Green, Lilli-Anne; and Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Lilli-Anne Green before the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines 
Ms Green:  I am CEO of a healthcare consulting firm with a national reach in the United States. My company works in all sectors of the healthcare industry. One of the core competencies of the firm is to develop educational programs to help doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers to better communicate with their patients around the various disease states. Currently, as a volunteer in my town, I am secretary of our energy committee and a delegate to the Cape . . . Complete article »

Laurie, Sarah; and Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Sarah Laurie before the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines 
Ms Laurie:  Thank you, Senators, for the invitation to attend this Senate inquiry into regulatory issues relating to industrial wind turbines. The systemic regulatory failure with respect to the way industrial and environmental noise pollution is regulated in Australia is not confined to wind turbine noise. As you would have seen from the submissions of the Wollar Progress Association; and residents living near the coalmines in the Upper Hunter region and residents of Lithgow impacted by coal fired power stations . . . Complete article »

Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines: Interim Report 
1.1 The Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines was established in December 2014. To date, it has received 464 submissions from a wide range of stakeholders. It has conducted public hearings in Portland in south-west Victoria on 30 March, in Cairns on 18 May, in Canberra on 19 May, in Melbourne on 9 June and in Adelaide on 10 June 2015. Further public hearings are planned in Canberra on 19 June and 23 June and in Sydney on 29 June . . . Complete article »

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