#renewable #green #windfarmAnother major government organization has found that there is no scientific evidence that wind turbine sound is damaging to human health.
Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council released a public statement on wind turbine sound July 3. Among its findings:
-"While a range of effects such as annoyance, anxiety, hearing loss, and interference with sleep, speech and learning have been reported anecdotally, there is no published scientific evidence to support adverse effects of wind turbines on health."
- "The situation is ... complicated by findings that people who benefit economically from wind turbines were less likely to report annoyance, despite exposure to similar sound levels as people who were not economically benefiting."
Source: REVE
A former resident of Waubra, west of Ballarat, has commissioned a study into the inaudible noise coming from a 128-turbine wind farm.
Noel Dean owns a farm at Waubra but moved to Ballarat because he says low frequency noise from the turbines was making he and his family sick.
He paid a Queensland-based noise expert $43,000 to investigate the phenomenon. Mr Dean says the investigation confirmed that infrasound from the turbines is present on his farm in high levels.
"The levels are higher outside but inside you get more resonation," he said. "You get a more of a pulsing affect inside, bounces off the walls and it's going up and down in these frequencies that make you unsettled, probably anxious and you just want to get out of there because it's going in and out of your hearing threshold."
Mr Dean says the farm's owner, Acciona Energy, needs to take action.
Source: ABC.net (AU)
It is interesting that government may ackwheowledge people’s complaints but say they are not enough to stop wind farms.
Unfortunately, some people are efffected a lot while others are not effected at all.
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You need to find an animal that is affected by these wind farms so that the "Animal Rights" groups come out against this insanity!!!
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