They say the health of Ontarians
living near turbines needs to be investigated — not the thin volume of evidence compiled to date.
Noel and Janine Dean farm prime agricultural land, with significant irrigation infrastructure, located
near the turbines of the Waubra wind farm in Victoria.
In one of the cases, a bald eagle was found with a missing wing and a leg in a corn field
near a turbine at EDP Renewables North America LLC's Pioneer Prairie facility in Iowa.
A drop off / pick up point is situated on Holland Street,
near the Turbine Hall entrance (step free access).
Opponents of wind farms have falsely claimed that wind farms make fire - fighting more difficult because, they claim, water - bombing aircraft can not
fly near turbines.
«Across all model specifications, we find no statistical evidence that home prices near wind turbines were affected -LSB-...] There is no statistical evidence that homes in either the PAPC [post-announcement, pre-construction] or PC [post-construction] periods that
sold near turbines (i.e., within a mile or even a half mile) did so for less than similar homes that sold between 3 and 10 away miles in the same period.»
Also known as «strobe effect,» shadow flicker consists of the continual interchange between light and shadows that are cast across property and
homes near turbines as the sun rises and sets each day.
I have often
worked near these turbines on our research projects in the winter and witnessed the large divots in the snow where ice has been flung from the turning blades.
The year before, 123,000 picocuries per liter were detected in a
well near the turbine building at Peach Bottom west of Philadelphia — six times the drinking water standard.
And tens of thousands who have lived
near turbines for up to 25 years without health problems which anybody links to wind power.»
PNNL scientists have found that trying to keep minimum pressure higher in all
areas near the turbine is key for preventing barotrauma.
Edithburgh is 2.6 km from
the nearest turbines of the Wattle Point Wind Farm, completed in 2005.
To test it all you need to do is visit a wind farm — you will always hear
the nearer turbines and not those further away — as you would expect in any real - world situation.
Conduct research on the effects of wind turbines by ACTUALLY speaking to people who LIVE
near a turbine and are experiencing symptoms.
The turbines were inaudible to me at the township of Mount Bryan, at a distance of 3.8 km from
the nearest turbines.
If, in time, the symptoms of those living
near the turbines are demonstrated to have a physiological basis, it will become apparent that the years of assertions from the wind industry's acousticians that «what you can't hear can't affect you» or that symptoms are psychosomatic or a nocebo effect was a great injustice.
15 families living
near the turbines have complained about the sound emanating from the industrial machines, however, Ruiz feels that the noises «are likely coming from something else.»
Property values: there may be justification for the claim that wind farms reduce property values if
the nearest turbine is very close, say considerably less than 1 km from a home, and property values may decline slightly and temporarily in response to the negativity that sometimes surrounds a proposed wind farm, but almost all the credible studies show no decline in the value of land near wind farms.
He has conducted a relentless campaign to vilify people who claim living
near turbines is affecting their health.»
If a person sees a wind turbine (as I do) as graceful, elegant, an optimistic symbol of a cleaner and better future and finds the sounds that turbines make pleasant and restful (as I do), they are very unlikely to develop any ill - effects from being
near turbines.
For example, the householder at 1000m from
the nearest turbine is assumed to be roughly equally distant from three other turbines; while, because of the inverse square law, the workers much higher (hypothetical) dose would predominantly come from the turbine they happen to be close to.
Noise is the predominant concern of people living
near turbines, leading to annoyance in a small proportion of exposed people, particularly in association with negative visual impacts or lack of perceived personal benefit.