Health Effects Related to Wind
Turbine Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review Schmidt, Jesper Hvass; and Klokker, Mads
RESEARCH ARTICLE Health Effects Related to Wind
Turbine Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review DECEMBER 4, 2014 Jesper Hvass Schmidt1, 2,3 *, Mads Klokker4, 5 1.
The effects of which have been held by an Australian Court to be a pathway to disease: Australian Court Finds Wind
Turbine Noise Exposure a «Pathway to Disease»: Waubra Foundation Vindicated
Not exact matches
Identifying that some people who have one or more acknowledged risk factors prior to Industrial Wind
Turbines beginning to operate provides information about predictable health problems which may ensue with
exposure to infrasound and low frequency
noise.
Stephana had lived for years among the wind
turbines in the Cultus - Clear Creek - Frogmore wind power project, developed by AIM PowerGen, and was one of the forst people in Ontario to experience symptoms from
exposure to the vibration and
noise emissions.
Whilst it is not yet clear that these parameters would adequately protect the health of vulnerable members of the community from the effects of chronic cumulative
exposure, why are these limits for infrasound and low frequency
noise exposure universally ignored by those members of the acoustics profession who have written the wind
turbine noise pollution regulations for governments?
The consequences of
exposure to impulsive infrasound and low frequency
noise generated by wind
turbines were also clearly well known to the global wind industry, because of the dramatic change in design which resulted, and because the results were presented at the AWEA sponsored conference.
Even Leventhall, who consults for the global wind industry, seems to agree that the constellation of symptoms I identified as Wind
Turbine Syndrome have been known to him to be caused by
exposure to sound energy in frequencies below 200 Hz, specifically infrasound (0 — 20 Hz) and low frequency
noise (20 — 200 Hz).
Perhaps not surprisingly, the council found that people who benefited from
turbines could endure the
noise «despite
exposure to similar sound levels as people who were not economically benefiting».
OTTAWA, Ontario — November 06, 2014 — The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) welcomes new research by Health Canada, a summary of which, released today, concludes that there is no evidence of a causal relationship between
exposure to wind
turbine noise and self - reported medical illnesses and health conditions.
No evidence to support a link between
exposure to wind
turbine noise and any of the self - reported illnesses and chronic conditions
Despite the reports of sick residents and concerned medical practitioners since 2003, it is only within the last 6 — 12 months that there has been any independent acoustics information about what the
exposures are of these sick residents to both infrasound and low frequency
noise emissions from the
turbines.
Guide to the evaluation of human
exposure to
noise from large wind
turbines Stephens, David; Shepherd, Kevin; Hubbard, Harvey; Grosveld, Ferdinand