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Lilli-Anne Green before the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
Author: Green, Lilli-Anne; and Australia 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 . . .
More »Etude de la mortalité des chiroptères
Author: AVES Environnement
Parc éolien du Mas de Leuze Saint-Martin-de-Crau (nine 800-kW turbines, 48-m-diam blade area [1,810 m², 0.45 acre], 50 m hub ht) 103 chauves-souris ont été trouvées mortes ou blessées (2 individus) au cours des 56 contrôles réalisés, entre le 17 mars et le 27 novembre 2009, sous les neuf éoliennes du parc du Mas de Leuze. D’après la formule adaptée de celle préconisée par Erickson et al. (2000), le nombre effectif de victimes, calculée sur la base des 103 chauves-souris . . .
More »Infrasound: Wind Energy’s Harmful Flaw (in French)
Author: Renard, Claude
Les Infrasons, Nuisances Redhibitoires des Éoliennes This article is an updated (c. 2006?) summary of a lecture entitled “Infrasound: Hidden and Harmful Pollution”, presented by the author in 1997. That lecture was in response, at that time, to concerns arising from the marketing in Sweden of a non-lethal infrasound weapon for riot control, the recognition of “sick building syndrome” due to infrasound emitted by air conditioning systems, and finally, the multiplication of wind turbine projects in Brittany, where the density . . .
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 . . .
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