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Resource Documents: New Zealand (19 items)

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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.


Date added:  February 26, 2015
Health, New Zealand, NoisePrint storyE-mail story

Statement of Evidence on behalf of Glenmark Community Against Wind Turbines

Author:  Shepherd, Daniel

I have been invited by Glenmark Community Against Wind Turbines, Inc to provide an evaluation of the impact of turbine noise on health and well-being. … Relatively, wind turbines are a new source of community noise, and as such their effects on public health are only beginning to emerge in the literature. The recognition of a new disease, disorder, or threat to health usually follows a set pathway. First, doctors and practitioners attempt to fit symptoms into pre-defined diagnostic categories or . . .

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Date added:  July 9, 2014
Health, New Zealand, NoisePrint storyE-mail story

Longitudinal study of the impact of wind turbine proximity on health related quality of life

Author:  McBride, David; Shepherd, Daniel; Welch, David; and Dirks, Kim

Background. Wind turbine noise is known to cause annoyance and sleep disturbance, which are primary health effects. An additional risk factor is the trait of noise sensitivity, which describes individuals who are more likely to pay attention to sound, evaluate sound negatively and have stronger emotional reactions to noise. The result is chronic stress, the effects of which could be monitored through detecting stress related outcomes such as hypertension in exposed individuals. An alternative approach is to monitor health related . . .

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Date added:  June 8, 2014
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Memorandum of Encumbrance

Author:  Meridian Energy

[This appears to be for the “West Wind” project, commissioned in 2009. Excerpts:] Encumbrancee [Meridian Energy] intends to undertake the Development on the Development Land. The Encumbrancer [New Zealand Forestry Group] has agreed to the covenant set out in the Third Schedule to this Encumbrance (Covenant) requiring the Encumbrancer to support any resource consent or other applications made by Encumbrancee relevant to the Development, and not to object to, prevent, prohibit, in any way interfere with or restrain the Development, . . .

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Date added:  January 26, 2012
Health, New Zealand, Noise, RegulationsPrint storyE-mail story

Pragmatic view of a wind turbine noise standard

Author:  Dickinson, Philip

Abstract New Zealand Standard 6808:2010 Acoustics – Wind farm noise is unique in that it acknowledges, up front under committee representation, that a representative of a university involved in its development does not support the Standard. Since that time a number of papers and presentations have decried this opposition to the Standard without giving the committee member the privilege of comment or reply. This paper is to put the record straight and explain why the Standard is not supported. Wind . . .

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