The side-effects and complaints about commercial wind turbines are being aired world-wide. What ever happened to concerns about "noise pollution"? This from England:
Credit: Western Morning News, www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk 29 October 2011 ~~
Imagine never being able to open your windows at night, no matter how hot the weather…
It’s a problem some North Devon residents now claim they face since the blades of 22 giant wind-turbines at Fullabrook began to turn.
Sue Pike’s bungalow is just 600 metres (1,986 feet) from one of the 110-metre (361- foot) turbines at the new wind-farm and she says: “It is dreadful – the main sound is like a huge great cement mixer going around – then you get the loud whoosh and also whistles and hums.
“Altogether we have counted four different noises coming from it,” she told the Western Morning News. “Back in the warmer weather when the turbines were being tested we couldn’t open the bedroom or lounge windows – fortunately we are double-glazed so that helps cut out the noise – but we were stewing indoors.”
Retired farmer Brian Pugsley has lived in the Putsford area close to the centre of the wind-farm all his 67 years and he says his thoughts on the development are “unprintable”.
“It’s affected everybody in a large area, but we’re in the middle of it – you’ve got the drone of the motor and also the blade and its whooshing sound.
“I don’t know how loud it was – but it just went on and on and was definitely worst when all 22 were going round,” said Mr Pugsley referring to the recent turbine tests.
Full article at www.wind-watch.org
Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Farm Animals and Wildlife
From Wisconsin:
"The symptoms experienced by humans may also be seen more seriously and widespread in animals leading to adverse consequences. Wild animals that have highly developed senses of hearing and vibration (bats, snakes, deer, turkey, and birds) virtually disappear from large wind developments. Domestic farm animals such as chickens, goats, and cattle are all reported to display adverse behaviors, as well as reproduction abnormalities and even death. There are many case reports of decreased dairy production and egg production in farm animals that are reversed when the animals are moved away from wind turbines."
"Industrial wind turbines (IWTs) impact local and migrant wildlife - birds, bats, monarch butterflies, dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles, fish and other creatures - by way of ....displacement from the area around the turbines due to significant disturbance. Initial construction activity may cause local wildlife to abandon the site permanently.....
Habitat loss or detrimental change due to IWTs and associated roads, electrical substations and transmission lines."
- Wayne Wegner full report posted at Wind Concerns Ontario
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
"Another fire..."
Notice that the newscaster intros the story with the words "another fire at a wind turbine..."
The incident was at a NextEra wind energy development.
http://www.ktxs.com/news/29378976/detail.html
The incident was at a NextEra wind energy development.
http://www.ktxs.com/news/29378976/detail.html
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