Sentences with phrase «near wind farms»

There are many other people living near the wind farm who have not reported health complaints.

It does seem that the surface temperature rose slightly near the wind farms.

There is no consistent evidence of human health effects from exposure to extremely low - frequency electromagnetic radiation at much higher levels than is present near wind farms.

Others who are prominent in the campaign against wind power live nowhere near a wind farm or a proposed wind farm.

There was also evidence that people who live near wind farms want to move away from the wind farms.

He wrote about several cases in which authorities have recognised declines in land values near wind farms.

I guess my view is if you live near a wind farm and you don't feel any symptoms or sensations, don't automatically think you are not being harmed.

A newspaper in the U.K. captures the sensation: «Residents near some wind farms have likened the noise to a cement - mixer or a shoe stuck in a tumble - dryer,» writes energy editor Emily Gosden in a story in The Telegraph.

Ernie Marshall, who lives near a wind farm in Goderich, Ontario, said that once the turbines got rolling, his health began to suffer.

Germany's grand coalition government is considering ways to enable municipalities located near wind farms to share in the profits of the turbines, reports Daniel Wetzel in Welt am Sonntag.

Boss continues: «In some epidemics, actual clinical illness in some group members may spread as epidemic hysteria by the transmission of anxiety to groups observing those who were initially ill»; this sounds similar to the spreading of hysteria about wind turbines by people like Dr Nina Pierpont and Sarah Laurie, who condition people to expect to feel ill if they go anywhere near a wind farm.

For background, read the CLEW news digest piece Municipalities near wind farms should receive» wind levy «to secure acceptance of further expansion — think tank, and the factsheet Climate, energy and transport in Germany's coalition treaty.

«Recently, we found that if you have a hill [near a wind farm], the distance between the wind turbines can be reduced significantly.

For example, the American Wind Energy Association estimates 500,000 jobs in the wind sector by 2010 — many in heavy - industry jobs on retooled assembly lines to manufacture turbines, blades and towers near wind farms.

«At this stage Aerotech does not have a firm policy on operating near wind farms.

I also believe infant children near wind farms will be also be found to be not on.

The recent study and another done last September by the Minnesota Department of Commerce — which represents the public before the PUC — were spurred by noise complaints, particularly from three landowners near the wind farm.

I have even camped out and slept beneath a number of turbines, I have slept in a cabin 850m from a wind farm on two nights and in an abandoned house near another wind farm, so that I could get first - hand experience.

Some people who live near wind farms do become ill; but all the science suggests that the cause is not the turbines; in fact it is more likely fear, anxiety and stress.

«PEOPLE living near wind farms face a greater risk of suffering health complaints caused by the low - frequency noise generated by turbines, a groundbreaking study has found.»

On 2018/05/11 Giles Parkinson reported in RenewEconomy that RES were considering a battery with a maximum power output capacity of up to 215 MW near the wind farm.

Investigations undertaken when developing these Guidelines determined that the potential risk for epileptic seizures and distraction of drivers is negligible to people living, visiting or driving near a wind farm.»

He could also have reported that the SA Environmental Protection Agency did a study on infrasound near wind farms and stated «Infrasound levels at houses adjacent to wind farms... are no higher than those at houses located a considerable distance from wind farms.»

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.

There is a need to actively engage people who may be living near wind farms in their development at an early stage, provide accurate health advice, and track and manage complaints appropriately.»

«The study shows potentially dramatic negative impacts on the value of property located near wind farms.

People who lived anywhere near a wind farm were lead to believe that the turbines would cause unpleasant symptoms (a self - fulfilling prophecy by the nocebo effect) and the urgently needed introduction of renewable energy was delayed.

It should be said that there was a very large overlap in the responses of the participants in the Noise and Health study; many subjects living near wind farms had better sleep than many who lived further away.

People exposed to infrasound and low - frequency noise in a laboratory (at much higher levels than those to which people living near wind farms are exposed) experience few, if any, effects on body functioning.