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Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility Planning Panel Report
Planning Panels Victoria
7 April 2024
Australia, Wildlife
The Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility (the Project) involves the construction and operation of a 400-megawatt, 81 turbine wind energy facility with associated infrastructure. The Project extends over 10,686 hectares on land used predominantly for grazing and cropping. The Project is located approximately 5 kilometres north of Mortlake within the Moyne Shire in south- west Victoria. The Applicant for the Project is Mount Fyans Wind Farm Pty Ltd which operates three wind energy facilities in Tasmania. Planning permit application PA1800406, . . .

Threat of mining to African great apes
Arandjelovic, Mimi; Barrie, Abdulai; Campbell, Geneviève; et al.
4 April 2024
Africa, Technology, Wildlife
Abstract: The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African . . .

Impairment of the Endothelium and Disorder of Microcirculation in Humans and Animals Exposed to Infrasound Due to Irregular Mechano-Transduction
Bellut-Staeck, Ursula Maria
3 April 2024
Health, Noise
Abstract: The microcirculation of mammals is an autoregulated and complex synchronised system according to the current demand for nutrients and oxygen. The undisturbed course of vital functions such as of growth, blood pressure regulation, inflammatory sequence and embryogenesis is bound to endothelial integrity. The sensible vasomotion is particularly dependent on it. Mechano-transduction signalling networks play a critical role in vital cellular processes and are the decisive physiological mechanism for an adequate nitric oxide release, the main pathway responsible for the . . .

Pile Driving Noise Survey
Rand, Robert
30 March 2024
Massachusetts, Noise, Regulations, Wildlife
Recent whale and dolphin fatalities on the Eastern seaboard, coupled with concerns about the acoustic impact of offshore wind farm construction, prompted an independent investigation to measure and assess underwater noise emissions from pile driving activities. Specifically, this assessment focused on the operations of the pile driving vessel Orion within the Vineyard Wind project area, with recordings taken in the waters southeast of Nantucket Island. Key Findings: Pile driving noise, even with advanced noise-mitigation techniques, rivals the loudness and frequency . . .

Sonar Vessel Noise Survey
Rand, Robert
30 March 2024
New Jersey, Noise, Regulations, Wildlife
Reports of recent whale and dolphin deaths on and near the New York and New Jersey shores, and public concerns of marine noise impacts from offshore wind development activities, prompted an investigation into the sonar noise levels produced by exploratory survey vessels working in ocean areas leased by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This technical report presents the methodology, analysis and results of a brief independent investigation of underwater noise levels from a sonar survey vessel, conducted offshore . . .

Cost of Wind: The Negative Economic Effects of Global Wind Energy Development
Dorrell, John; and Lee, Keunjae
20 March 2024
Economics
Abstract: This paper provides a structured literature review of the negative economic effects associated with the development of wind energy and synthesized the evidence at an abstract level. We then developed an analytical framework to systematically review economic issues such as volatility, electricity price, housing values, and unemployment in relation to wind energy. Global wind energy development data from the time period from 2000 through 2019 were included for a more robust analysis. This period encompasses the vast majority of . . .

Webster/Rollo and Shorten/Carty vs Meenacloghspar Wind
Egan, Emily
19 March 2024
Ireland, Law, Noise
Judgment of Ms. Justice Emily Egan delivered on the 8th day of March 2024 Ballyduff, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford— 582. I find that there are frequent and sustained periods during which AM [amplitude modulation] values are conservatively in excess of 5 or 6 dBA. I also find that there are regular periods during which the AM values are considerably in excess of 6 dBA, in the order of 10 dBA or more. I find that such high AM values exacerbate the . . .

Clear away with your useless turbines
Glenties Windfarm Information Group
20 February 2024
Ireland
Download the MP3 file. Buy the higher-quality track at Bandcamp. This is a song based on our experience of wind farm planning applications in the Glenties/Ardara area of County Donegal, Ireland. The furtive secrecy, the lack of public consultation, the absence of cost/benefit analysis,the lies about employment, the environmental destruction caused by wind farming and its associated industries, and the need for communities to simply say no, not under these conditions. —Glenties Windfarm Information Group, 2015 stopthesethings.com/2014/08/16/how-much-co2-gets-emitted-to-build-a-wind-turbine/ irishenergyblog.blogspot.ie/2015/04/cost-benefit-analysis-obligations-for.html www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth (((( . . .

8 Steps Used by Windpower Developers to Create Agreements
van Warmerdam, Carl
17 February 2024
Contracts, Environment, Technology
People who believe that offshore wind turbines can help solve climate change are misinformed. Because the facts are that they will not. Even the companies building them make no such claim. And the truth, based on facts, will always trump belief. I am not a climate denier, but you don’t have to be a climate denier to know that these things are bad and are doomed to failure. And you also don’t have to be linked to the fossil fuel . . .

Forest bat activity declines with increasing wind speed in proximity of operating wind turbines
Ellerbrok, Julia; Farwig, Nina; Peter, Franziska; and Voigt, Christian
5 January 2024
Germany, Wildlife
[Abstract] The increasing use of onshore wind energy is leading to an increased deployment of wind turbines in structurally rich habitats such as forests. Forest-affiliated bats, in turn, are at risk of colliding with the rotor blades. Due to the legal protection of bats in Europe, it is imperative to restrict the operation of wind turbines to periods of low bat activity to avoid collisions. However, bats have also been observed to avoid wind turbines over several hundred meters distance, . . .