Later I read that the energy park opponents claimed that fire - fighting water - bombing aircraft can not
fly near wind turbines.
This seems to be a case that suggests there is a strong link between ones experience in
living near wind turbines being linked with ones initial attitude to wind turbines and wind power.
The truth, of course, is that the sound from wind turbines is rarely audible from distances greater than 3 km and
infrasound near wind turbines is no greater than elsewhere.
He went on to say «It found many people living
near wind turbines at a wind farm near Cape Bridgewater in Victoria are suffering health complaints caused by low - frequency noise generated by wind turbines».
For two months, Cryan, a research scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey, led a team that watched the behaviors of migrating tree
bats near wind turbines.
Dorenne Hansen, of Glenville, Minn., stands on a rural
highway near a wind turbine in a field, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, near Northwood, Iowa.
«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.»
To be included in the study, among other criteria, at least one family member had to have severe symptoms and
reside near a wind turbine.»
«This study concludes that the level of infrasound at
houses near the wind turbines assessed is no greater than that experienced in other urban and rural environments, and that the contribution of wind turbines to the measured infrasound levels is insignificant in comparison with the background level of infrasound in the environment.»
We have described multiple ways in which infrasound and low - frequency sounds could affect the ear and give rise to the symptoms that some people living
near wind turbines report.
People can live perfectly
happily near wind turbines as shown by the people of Snowtown (near the 138 - turbine Snowtown WF), Edithburgh (near the 55 - turbine Wattle Point WF) and my own home town of Crystal Brook (near the 27 - turbine Clements Gap WF).
The Heartland Farmers, the vocal group who oppose the proposed Ceres wind farm on Yorke Peninsula, have long claimed that water bombing fire fighting aircraft can not operate
anywhere near wind turbines.
Greater Prairie - Chickens are more likely to abandon mating
sites near wind turbines, according to a new study in The Condor.
We are now fully aware of the hazards of smoking tobacco but how long before our government stop accepting lobbying from the industry and wake up to the hazards of living
near wind turbines?
STT's editorial team does not live
near wind turbines and their homes are not threatened by wind turbines, so we reject the NIMBY charge often levelled by those who never have to live or work near industrial wind turbines, at the unfortunates who have no choice but to do so.
This illustrious group of PHD's conclude however, that she proves no causal link between those ill health effects and living
near wind turbines.
In this entire 163 page report, nowhere does it state that they spoke directly to anyone who lives or has lived
near a wind turbine and had their lives profoundly impacted by an IWT.
They cite the work done by Dr. Nina Pierpont, who has spent years studying and working directly with people living
near wind turbines and experiencing ill health effects.
Did this esteemed panel of experts hoist themselves out of their chairs and actually go speak to people who live
near wind turbines?
Instead, we have the US National Climate Assessment, in whose name the President's climate consigliere John Podesta is threatening to shred the Constitution in
the nearest wind turbine and save the planet through «executive orders».
In my state, Massachusetts, there is a woman who has told me she lives more than five miles from
the nearest wind turbine and she is quite ill.
Frankly, it is
the nearest wind turbine to where I live, and a number of neighbours are having problems, and not just with the audible noise but with the infrasound and low - frequency noise, based upon the symptoms they are reporting to me.
It is not an attitude; it is to understand the realities of living
near wind turbines — living, working, attending school, being incarcerated near wind turbines.
The nocebo effect, a manifestation of psychological expectations, explains why people complain of adverse health effects when living
near wind turbines.
In fact, it is quite alarming to me, because I have interviewed people who live
near wind turbines that you in Australia would probably consider to be quite small and solitary — wind turbines that are 100 kilowatts, even — and they are experiencing health problems, even people living near a 10 - kilowatt wind turbine.
The HF claim that aerial spraying will not be possible anywhere
near wind turbines — which is demonstrably false.
The fact is, according to the MOECC's own records, obtained by Wind Concerns Ontario under Freedom of Information and Privacy legislation, the government knew in 2006 there were problems being experienced by people living
near wind turbines.
The review addresses symptoms associated with the central nervous system, such as dizziness, vertigo and epilepsy, among others, that have been raised in the context of living
near wind turbines.
Annoyance associated with living
near wind turbines is a complex phenomenon related to personal factors.
The review includes a review of individual risk factors, such as noise sensitivity and others that may affect how people respond to living
near wind turbines.
Components of wind turbine sound, including infrasound and low frequency sound, have not been shown to present unique health risks to people living
near wind turbines.
Phil Higham, Lanreath Western Morning News — October 15, 2014 Phil Goodwin's article «Living
near wind turbines may be risk to hearing» (of October 6) refers to a small but convincing study by scientists from Munich University published by the Royal Society.
A survey of those people who live
near wind turbines, their health problems, and aiming to establish whether those problems are related to the turbines, to perceptions about the turbines or totally unrelated to the turbines.