With thousands of
noise complaints recorded with the government unresolved, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) refuses to acknowledge that it has a problem, and refuses to look for causes, relying instead on its clearly inadequate set of regulations.
Not exact matches
City dwellers made 80,752
noise complaints in the first three months of this year, up 18 percent from the same period last year when 68,166 calls were made, according to 311
records.
The numerous instances of wind farm operators refusing to release
noise data, not keeping accurate
records of
complaints and buying out some neighbours to silence them with gag clauses is well known and also indicative of an industry desperate to suppress damning information.
I find it interesting that while there have been many
complaints from wind power opponents about how much
noise wind turbines make, this is the only
recording that I have come across of a sound that could be truly annoying.
Complaint Tracking Process —
Complaint records released to WCO in response to an FOI request indicate that the MOECC does not respond to most
complaints about wind turbine
noise.