Sentences with phrase «impacts from wind turbines»

Adverse Impacts from Wind Turbines in Waubra, Australia, and Surrounding Area Ribnick, Preston; and Green, Lilli - Ann

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The studies examine everything from viable ports to turbine manufacturing and wind - farm construction and staging to the need for cables, pipelines and other infrastructure, as well as the impact on birds, bats and fish.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

The bumps on Humpback whale fins give the mammals 32 % less drag and 8 % more rise in lift - and it can have a similar impact for wind turbine blades, helping us create more energy from the same breeze.

Professor Hansen's team's research findings have now supported Dr Laurie's statement in 2011 about the distance of impact and are consistent with the residents» consistent reports for nearly four years of a low frequency noise problem from the wind turbines at Waterloo, which severely disrupts their sleep.

«Carmen Krogh, a retired pharmacist from Ontario, Canada, spoke in Boulevard, California recently on the impacts wind turbines could have on people, particularly children.

Washington, D.C., — The U.S. wind energy industry announced, on the eve of National Wildlife Day, a best management practice establishing a new voluntary operating protocol, which is expected to reduce impacts to bats from operating wind turbines by as much as 30 percent.

Part of what has thus far stymied offshore wind in the United States is concern about the aesthetic impact of turbines visible from shore.

Since the Massachusetts study came out last year, the wind industry (including CanWEA and AWEA) have been diligent in proclaiming it everywhere, to be proof positive that there are no health impacts from living near industrial wind turbines.

• artificial reef effects • continual operational noise and vibrations emanating from the wind turbines; • electromagnetic impacts due to cabling that may impact navigation

Click here to watch Australian news video dealing with the health impacts of infrasound from wind turbines.

Research is also investigating new ways to minimize impacts, such as identifying the wind speeds at which turbines can generate power with minimal impact on bats, the use of devices to deter bats from coming close to a turbine, and whether certain turbine colours are more effective in keeping bats away.

Called «unobstruction» easements, the latter easement restricts landowners from building or conducting activities on their property that would impact the amount of wind reaching the turbine.

Four states — Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — are all looking at putting large wind turbine farms up to 12 miles offshore where they're far enough away from the coast to minimize tourism impacts but still close enough to provide large amounts of electricity to the states.

I'm sending you copies of some of the letters which were sent to Dan in utter disgust, in this case from families seriously impacted by infrasound emitted by wind turbines, which are destroying this once magnificent agricultural district.

From the first day we were asked to have wind turbines on our farm we were very concerned about the impacts of a wind farm in our community.

Meteorological measurement and historical record of air temperature is now impacted by change to global wind speed caused by energy removed from wind by wind turbines, and also by impact of human induced change to ocean chemistry.

The USFWS issued its first interim guidance about how wind project developers could avoid impacts to wildlife from wind turbines in 2003, and replaced these with a «tiered» approach outlined in the Land - Based Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2wind project developers could avoid impacts to wildlife from wind turbines in 2003, and replaced these with a «tiered» approach outlined in the Land - Based Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2wind turbines in 2003, and replaced these with a «tiered» approach outlined in the Land - Based Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2012.

... According to a review by Lovich and Ennen (2013), the construction and operation of wind farms have both potential and known impacts on terrestrial vertebrates, such as: (i) increase in direct mortality due to traffic collisions; (ii) destruction and modification of the habitat, including road development, habitat fragmentation and barriers to gene flow; (iii) noise effects, visual impacts, vibration and shadow flicker effects from turbines; (iv) electromagnetic field generation; (v) macro and microclimate change; (vi) predator attraction; and (vii) increase in fire risks.

The biggest impact on electricity production comes from making wind turbines bigger.

Indeed, from the role of nuclear power to the impact of wind turbines on the landscape, there are many issues that will be hashed out in the political sphere.

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-- DQ) Joe Wertz — State Impact — August 26, 2014 Seven landowners filed a class - action lawsuit this week to prevent wind turbines from being built near their homes in Canadian and Kingfisher counties.

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In his testimony to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the Social and Economic Impact of Rural Wind Farms Mr Ken Andrew McAlpine (Director; Policy and Government Relations, Asia - Pacific Region, Vestas Australian Wind Technology Pty Ltd) pointed out that health concerns about wind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the claWind Farms Mr Ken Andrew McAlpine (Director; Policy and Government Relations, Asia - Pacific Region, Vestas Australian Wind Technology Pty Ltd) pointed out that health concerns about wind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the claWind Technology Pty Ltd) pointed out that health concerns about wind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the clawind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the claims.

«Bubble curtains» are also being used to protect marine wildlife from the sound impacts of installing offshore wind turbines.

Salazar imposed some restrictions on the wind farm, including cutting the number of turbines from 170 to 130, and requiring that the developer reposition some turbines paint them off - white to limit their visual impact.

Acting for wind turbine operators in the defence of injunction proceedings arising from noise impact and visual impact under the law of nuisance.

The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County will also be making a presentation on the potential health impacts from the environmental noise produced by the giant wind turbines.

Which leads, then, to the question of whether the statutory test adopted by the Legislature materially departed from the consensus scientific view about the impact of commercial wind turbines on human health.»