A proposal for evaluating the potential health
effects of wind turbine noise for projects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
The million - dollar question is whether
the effects of wind turbine infrasound stimulation stay confined to the ear and have no other influence on the person or animal.
Note: While the health
effects of wind turbine technology is being analyzed, the effects of low sound generation on other species is not.
«What's a little unclear from our results is whether that increase in female survivorship was due to
the effects of wind turbines on predators.»
This doesn't negate the other positive
effects of wind turbines, but it certainly means that we should figure out how to make them so that bats are safer.
Mark Duchamp, CEO of the European Platform against Windfarms (EPAW), tells us that the European authorities haven't done their homework either: «As happens with other ill
effects of wind turbines, governments are happy to swallow what they are told by the wind industry, hook, line and sinker.
The HCBOH will start an investigation on
the effects of Wind Turbines: Valerie Gillies, Goderich Signal Star: The [media] release stated, «This is the first county health unit investigation, in Ontario, regarding industrial wind turbines, where the affected resident's health complaints will be tracked long term.»
They also seem to take offense at the fact that Dr. Pierpont, in order to study
the effects of wind turbines, sought out the victims thusly:
Conduct research on
the effects of wind turbines by ACTUALLY speaking to people who LIVE near a turbine and are experiencing symptoms.
Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects: An Expert Panel Review An expert panel review on studies about the health
effects of wind turbines.
Documentation of damaging health
effects of wind turbines since 1981 Research from NASA, Cornell University, MIT and many others
And THIS ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why there has NEVER been a truly independent research study done on the health
effects of wind turbines despite the loud effusive claims of wind energy proponents.
Ms Laurie became interested in the health
effects of wind turbines when Origen proposed to build the Crystal Brook Wind Farm near her house in 2010.
An impressive number of health practitioners, researchers, and acousticians around the world are voicing their concern about
the effects of wind turbines on people's health (1).
In Australia, where the controversy is reaching new heights, a wind industry executive has been singling out Dr Sarah Laurie in a bid to make the public forget the many other health professionals who alert the public to the dangerous
effects of wind turbines: «[T] he largest public relations issue for the industry at the moment is the theory of an ex-doctor that infrasound or low frequency noise from wind turbines is likely to make anyone within 10 km of a wind turbine sick» (2).
Not exact matches
SOMERSET, N.Y. (WBEN)- Detractors
of the proposed
wind turbines along Lake Ontario in the towns
of Somerset and Yates argue that the
turbines have a negative
effect in the community.
The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor
of biology — discovered that
wind turbines have little
effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability
of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.
Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one
of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case
of wind turbines»
effects on bird populations.
Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem in KU's Department
of Geography are co-authors
of a new study just published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the
effects of large
wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the
turbines can generate.
«When the German Renewable Energy Law [Erneuerbare Energien - Gesetz] came into
effect a year ago, both the solar and
wind energy sectors really got a push,» explains Andrea Hein, director for marketing and communications of Enron Wind, a large manufacturer of wind turbi
wind energy sectors really got a push,» explains Andrea Hein, director for marketing and communications
of Enron
Wind, a large manufacturer of wind turbi
Wind, a large manufacturer
of wind turbi
wind turbines.
Scientists lack sufficient understanding
of wind turbines» noise and best ways to mitigate the
effects, says Jorge Arenas, a faculty member in the Universidad Austral de Chile's College
of Engineering Sciences and director
of its Institute
of Acoustics.
(The Condor: Ornithological Applications, May 6, 2015)-- Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one
of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case
of wind turbines»
effects on bird populations.
Twenty - seven - year - old Maeve Brennan is based in London and Beirut, and uses her proposed work emphasizes the «whirring presence»
of wind turbines, examining their ripple
effects on the ecosystem.
> Okey doke; let's agree that windpower is a good thing, generally, that it's desirable that engineering solutions be sought to (further) minimize and certainly monitor the
effect on bird life — especially raptors — and that the «cats kill more birds than
wind turbines» argument isn't a stellar example
of a well - reasoned scientific argument addressing a legit scientific concern.
Unfortunately, RECs are almost entirely non-additional (e.g. the
wind turbines producing them in Iowa would have been built independent
of the REC income stream), so buying RECs has no real
effect on carbon dioxide emissions.
It dispenses electricity through
wind turbines, breezes and healthy air offsetting the
effects of Scottsdale Road and the parking.
Wind turbines scattered across a region temper the effects of wind energy's variability and contribute to a more reliable g
Wind turbines scattered across a region temper the
effects of wind energy's variability and contribute to a more reliable g
wind energy's variability and contribute to a more reliable grid.
Because
turbines take up only 1 percent
of the land covered by a
wind farm, ranchers and farmers can, in
effect, double - crop their land, simultaneously harvesting electricity while producing cattle, wheat or corn.
Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one
of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case
of wind turbines»
effects on bird populations.
The law approving construction
of a test centre
of large land - based
wind turbines near the Jutland town
of Østerild was forced through parliament despite warnings about the
effects it would have on the natural environment in the area and its impact on residents.
In «Adverse health
effects of industrial
wind turbines,» a 2013 paper in the magazine
of the College
of Family Physicians
of Canada, Dr. Roy D. Jeffery, Carmen Krogh, and Brett Horner explained, «People who live or work in close proximity to IWTs have experienced symptoms that include decreased quality
of life, annoyance, stress, sleep disturbance, headache, anxiety, depression, and cognitive dysfunction.»
It has also commissioned studies to determine what
effect wind farm construction and electromagnetic fields in the vicinity
of the
turbines may have on fish populations.
Wind turbine noise is a reported cause of these effects; however, some commentators suggest sound from wind turbines does not pose a risk of any adverse health effect in hum
Wind turbine noise is a reported cause
of these
effects; however, some commentators suggest sound from
wind turbines does not pose a risk of any adverse health effect in hum
wind turbines does not pose a risk
of any adverse health
effect in humans.
Ea Energy Analyses, together with the working group
of IEA
Wind TCP Task 26, has analyzed the effects of advanced wind turbine designs on the European power sys
Wind TCP Task 26, has analyzed the
effects of advanced
wind turbine designs on the European power sys
wind turbine designs on the European power system.
The practical
effect of increasing the mandate will be the erection
of several hundred more industrial
wind turbines and towers in many rural communities.
What is worse though, for someone who parades his «health» credentials while behaving like a dilettante on actual noise issues, Chapman and other «health professionals» display an amazing lack
of compassion in their dismissive attitude to people who claim to be suffering debilitating
effects from pervasive
wind turbine noise.
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
This illustrious group
of PHD's conclude however, that she proves no causal link between those ill health
effects and living near
wind turbines.
I believe that it is therefore impossible for him to offer a neutral opinion on the health
effects of industrial
wind turbine installations.
The level
of background noise at distances
of a kilometre or more from
wind turbines makes measuring the
effect of sound from
wind turbines on people at such distances complicated.
They did conclude ONE possible ill health
effect of being too close to a
wind turbine!!!
By utilising evolutionary algorithms, it is hoped that it will be possible to optimise
wind turbine placement to take into account so - called «wake
effects»,
wind factors and minimising the footprint
of the
wind farm, saving land.
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?
Krekel and Zerrahn, 2017 We show that the construction
of wind turbines close to households exerts significant negative external
effects on residential well - being... In fact, beyond unpleasant noise emissions (Bakker et al., 2012; McCunney et al., 2014) and impacts on wildlife (Pearce - Higgins et al., 2012; Schuster et al., 2015), most importantly,
wind turbines have been found to have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics (Devine - Wright, 2005; Jobert et al., 2007; Wolsink, 2007).
«NSW Health was very clear in its advice, which is consistent with that
of the National Heath and Medical Research Council — that there is no published scientific evidence to link
wind turbines with adverse health
effects.»
I first became aware
of this issue in May
of 2013 after reading a paper by Carmen Krogh dealing with adverse health
effects caused by Industrial
Wind Turbines (link).
[8] In other words, direct causation
of the reported «annoyance»
effects from the impulsive reproduced sound energy identical to «
wind turbine noise» was clearly established.
It is recognised and accepted that infrasound is dangerous to human health in other situations it is only a matter
of time before full disclosure
of the extent
of the
effects on human health
of Industrial
Wind Turbines is accepted by medical authorities.
I wanted to follow up with a summary
of how I became involved in this issue, the direction and current status
of my research, and my position on the issue
of study
of, and response to, the human health
effects caused by exposure to Industrial
wind turbines.
The yields on our offshore
wind energy are much improved these days because
of better technology and our understanding
of wake
effects [changes in
wind speed caused by the impact
of the
turbines on each other].