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Resource Documents: Nova Scotia (9 items)
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Health Canada’s response to the Digby Wind Power Project Addendum, Digby, Nova Scotia
Author: Safe Environments Program, Regions and Programs Branch, Health Canada
Section 2.1 (Site Layout Review) and Table 1 (Summary of Effects and Significance Prediction Comparison of Site Layouts) – The revised layout adopted by the proponent appears to yield sound levels that should normally be below Health Canada’s acceptable threshold value of 45 dBA for sleep disturbance at the exterior of the building of the nearest sensitive receptor (WHO, 1999). However, if a 5 dBA to 8 dBA increase in sound due to the proximity of the ocean were assumed . . .
More »Daniel d’Entremont letter to Calumet County
Author: d'Entremont, Daniel
July 30, 2007 To The People of Calumet County, The Calumet County Board of Supervisors, and The Town Board, Life for the d’Entremont family since the Pubnico Point windfarm began operating has been filled with sorrow, illness, heartache and disbelief. How could a company be permitted to enter our community and turn our pristine area into a noise ravaged battleground. Why did it happen to us? Not that we would wish it on anyone else. First off, the community knew . . .
More »Europe, France, Germany, Health, Human rights, New Zealand, Noise, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Property values, Regulations, Safety, Scotland, Sweden, U.K. •
Changes in Wind Turbine Setbacks
Author: Palmer, William
Note that Setbacks can have both physical safety rationale – for reasons of potential injury – and noise rationale – for reasons of annoyance and health effects United Kingdom Derek Taylor, 1991, “How to Plan the Nuisance Out of Wind Energy”, suggested setback from wind turbines with a 30 metre rotor to roadways and lot lines, of 50 metres adequate to a lightly traveled road, 100 metres to a heavily traveled road, and 120 to 170 metres to a home [4-5.7 times rotor . . .
More »Letter to Richard Hurlburt, Nova Scotia Minister of Energy
Author: Goodrich, Eugene
This letter explains the concerns about the cost and adverse impacts of large-scale wind energy development in the face of the limited ability of wind power to reduce greenhouse gases. It is provided as comment on the “Nova Scotia Wind Integration Study” commissioned by the N.S. Department of Energy, which Mr. Goodrich notices appears to have been written to justify the decision to erect hundreds of wind turbines, not to examine the wisdom and practicality of that decision. Download original . . .
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