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Unless indicated otherwise, documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. These resource documents are shared here 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. • The copyrights reside with the sources indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations.

Green Energy Truths — Report from the Front Lines of Vermont 

Authors:  | Environment, Health, Vermont

Categories:  Environment, Health, Vermont

How does wind project performance change with age in the United States? 

Authors:  | Economics, Technology, U.S.

Categories:  Economics, Technology, U.S.

Malitsch and Mangold v. Penn Forest Township Zoning Hearing Board 

Authors:  | Law, Noise, Pennsylvania, Siting

Categories:  Law, Noise, Pennsylvania, Siting

Laboratory study on the effects of wind turbine noise on sleep: results of the polysomnographic WiTNES study 

Authors:  | Noise

Categories:  Noise

Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas 

Authors:  | Environment, Wildlife

Categories:  Environment, Wildlife

Dixie the Dolphin 

Authors:  | Environment, Wildlife

Categories:  Environment, Wildlife

Industrial Wind Turbine Seismic Source 

Authors:  | Noise, Ontario, Regulations

Categories:  Noise, Ontario, Regulations

Prevalence of wind farm amplitude modulation at long-range residential locations 

Authors:  | Australia, Noise

Categories:  Australia, Noise

Why “Ground Factor” Matters 

Authors:  | Minnesota, Noise, Regulations, Technology

Categories:  Minnesota, Noise, Regulations, Technology

More than 13.9 million trees felled in Scotland for wind development, 2000–2019 

Authors:  | Environment, Scotland

Categories:  Environment, Scotland

Santé des hommes et des animaux face aux infrasons produits par les éoliennes 

Authors:  | Health, Noise

Categories:  Health, Noise

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States 

Authors:  | Aesthetics, Economics, Environment, General, Property values, Siting, Technology, U.S., Wildlife

Categories:  Aesthetics, Economics, Environment, General, Property values, Siting, Technology, U.S., Wildlife

Decade of Constraint Payments 

Authors:  | Economics, Scotland

Categories:  Economics, Scotland

Wind leasing: an all or none proposition 

Authors:  | Economics, Law, Ohio, U.S.

Categories:  Economics, Law, Ohio, U.S.

Letter from City of Rio Dell to County of Humboldt Planning Commission in opposition to wind energy project 

Authors:  | Aesthetics, California, Impacts

Categories:  Aesthetics, California, Impacts

Wind Energy Conversion Systems Zoning Ordinance 

Authors:  | Michigan, Noise, Ordinances, Siting

Categories:  Michigan, Noise, Ordinances, Siting

Case studies that have convinced me that industrial wind turbines make people sick 

Authors:  | Health, Noise

Categories:  Health, Noise

Three estimates of decommissioning cost 

Authors:  | Economics, Michigan, Minnesota

Categories:  Economics, Michigan, Minnesota

Couple statements about reliability and cost 

Authors:  | Economics, Grid, Indiana

Categories:  Economics, Grid, Indiana

South Australia Wind Farm Guidelines Consultation 

Authors:  | Australia, Noise, Regulations

Categories:  Australia, Noise, Regulations

Investigation of the unpleasantness of infrasound combined with audio sound using psychoacoustic scaling methods 

Authors:  | Health, Noise

Categories:  Health, Noise

Frequency characteristics of oppressive and vibratory feeling to low-frequency sound 

Authors:  | Health, Noise

Categories:  Health, Noise

Use of synthesised or actual wind turbine noise for subjective evaluation purposes 

Authors:  | Noise, Technology

Categories:  Noise, Technology

Iowa Farmer 

Authors:  | Aesthetics, Human rights, Impacts, Iowa, Michigan, Videos

Categories:  Aesthetics, Human rights, Impacts, Iowa, Michigan, Videos

Simplified method for determination of “amplitude modulation” of audible and inaudible wind turbine noise 

Authors:  | Noise, Technology

Categories:  Noise, Technology

Wind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factors 

Authors:  | Noise, U.S.

Categories:  Noise, U.S.

Silent Menace (Part 2 of 2): Wind Turbine Infrasound – What You Can’t Hear Can Hurt You 

Authors:  | Health, Noise, Wildlife

Categories:  Health, Noise, Wildlife

Avian vulnerability to wind farm collision through the year: Insights from lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) tracked from multiple breeding colonies 

Authors:  | England, Wildlife

Categories:  England, Wildlife

Pilot study on perceived sleep acceptability of low-frequency, amplitude modulated tonal noise 

Authors:  | Health, Noise

Categories:  Health, Noise

Epidemiological study on long-term health effects of low-frequency noise produced by wind power stations in Japan 

Authors:  | Health, Japan, Noise

Categories:  Health, Japan, Noise

Influence evaluation of infrasound by using both of biological information and infrasound sensors in the vicinity of wind turbine facilities 

Authors:  | Health, Noise, Technology

Categories:  Health, Noise, Technology

In situ measured facade sound insulation of wind turbine sound 

Authors:  | Noise, Regulations, Sweden, Technology

Categories:  Noise, Regulations, Sweden, Technology

How do audio and visual characteristics of wind turbines contribute to noise annoyance? 

Authors:  | Noise

Categories:  Noise

Implementation of the issue of noise from wind turbines at low frequencies 

Authors:  | Denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Noise, Regulations, Technology

Categories:  Denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Noise, Regulations, Technology

Evidence of region-wide bat population decline from long-term monitoring and bayesian occupancy models with empirically informed priors 

Authors:  | Oregon, Wildlife

Categories:  Oregon, Wildlife

Effect of unsteady flow on wind turbine wake development and noise generation 

Authors:  | Noise, Technology

Categories:  Noise, Technology

Recent developments in the regulation of noise from wind energy facilities in Victoria 

Authors:  | Australia, Law, Noise

Categories:  Australia, Law, Noise

Long-term wind turbine noise exposure and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation in the Danish Nurse cohort 

Authors:  | Denmark, Health

Categories:  Denmark, Health

Toward understanding the physical link between turbines and microclimate impacts from in situ measurements in a large wind farm 

Authors:  | Environment, Meteorology

Categories:  Environment, Meteorology

Griffon vulture mortality at wind farms in southern Spain: Distribution of fatalities and active mitigation measures 

Authors:  | Spain, Wildlife

Categories:  Spain, Wildlife


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