The High Court for Western Denmark sets compensation over and above the amount assessed by the government. By Søren Stenderup Jensen http://en.friends-against-wind.org/justice/compensation-for-noise-from-wind-turbines Ill informed councils believe they can save money on their own budgets and convince communities through community benefit that wind turbines are the solution the the black hole in their budgets. All […]
Andrew Vivar’s whose life has been turned upside down since Ark Hill Windfarm was developed has been researching Vibro Acoustic Disease: “The vibrations induced by the operation of the wind towers (movement of the blades and the remaining existing mechanical equipment) have a frequency content concentrated in bands with medium frequency 3 Hz, 8 Hz, […]
OPEN LETTER TO TIM BOURNE 2 19.06.14. OPEN LETTER to Sir Sabaratnam ArulkumaranPresident of the BMA. 21.0614 FINAL TO PRESIDENT OF BMA finalof the BMA.2. 24.06.14 Given the vital importance of adequate good quality sleep to maintain physical and mental health, the determined ignorance of the serious impact of wind turbine noise alone by the […]
One of Pac Hydro’s numerous Cape Bridgewater victims, Sonia Trist has finally had enough and recently decided to abandon her beautiful seaside home. Sonia’s decision was made for no other reason than to escape the incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound generated by Pac Hydro’s turbines – and the impact that noise has on her ability […]
The Scottish Government is proud to support windfarm development in suitable areas. How can the industrialisation of water catchment areas, once protected by law, be regarded as suitable? I believe that the current lack of consideration in allowing and promoting industrialisation of either public or private water catchment areas is contrary to the whole ethos […]
Scottish Government approved Whitelee and its extensions under S36, but the conditions for development were devolved to the Local Authority to enforce. This is completely unreasonable in terms of governance. No one seems to take responsibility for proscribing either what test parameters are required ( eg hydrocarbons) or what the test intervals should be. So as […]
If you are concerned about windfarms and your water supply you must watch this video – you will not believe it could happen to our water supplies in the UK today: This post construction report: Scottish Power Renewables commissioned Jacobs to produce a post construction survey of groundwater change This video is widely circulating around the […]
The German authorities are now clear in that there is a very real issue with low frequency sound and recognise that they both need to update their regulations and complete more research. http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/378/publikationen /texte_40_2014_machbarkeitsstudie_zu_wirkungen_von_infraschall.pdf Abstract This feasibility study evaluated the state of knowledge about the effects of infrasound on human beings, the identification of infrasound […]
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