>~Acciona disease ~ a phrase coined by Jefferson's leaning left
~ Two Communities ~ One future?
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The Waubra wind complex website makes several references to the fact the wind complex is Acciona owned and operated: ~link --->here<---
The Waubra wind complex website , note 192MW rated capacity with 128 turbines. This indicates each turbine is 1.5 MW: ~link---> here<---
Waubra ~turbine fact sheet note the 82 m diameter of the blades used on some of their turbines
Link --->here <--- this document was downloaded from the same website into scribd for easy viewing
From the brochure for Acciona AW-1500 (1500 kwh = 1.5 MW) note the 82/1500 model which has 82 m diameter rotor. to look at Acciona's brochure link -->here<---
From all of this information one can concluded the specific turbine model at Waubra include the Acciona AW-82/1500
Acciona's St. Lawrence Wind Farm SDEIS Narrative note on line one reference to Acciona AW-82/1500 turbines. To read the SDEIS document link -->here <-- From all this documentation one can conclude the turbines Acciona is proposing for our town are the same model as used at the Waubra Wind Farm in Victoria, Australia, which have a sordid history of adverse noise impacts.
The
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Link--- >here<--- to read the Dean Waubra noise impact assessment report
Acciona's Waubra wind farm under scrutiny; Final sign-off delayed
Credit: By BRENDAN GULLIFER,
The Courier, thecourier.com.au 3 October 2011
Waubra wind farm run by Spanish multinational Acciona is still under the microscope from the state government.
A government source said last week Planning Minister Matthew Guy had written to the company again demanding further information over ongoing noise testing.
“This is a complicated issue but the minister wants more information,” the source said.
However, an Acciona spokesman said the company was still waiting ministerial sign-off.
“Acciona commissioned an independent 12-month post-construction noise monitoring report which showed compliance, and submitted to the state government last October,” the spokesman said.
“We are still awaiting government’s final sign-off.”
But a Spring Street insider said the minister’s latest letter would have only “just been sent”.
Acciona submitted a post-construction noise compliance report to the state government last October.
The report was peer-reviewed at the government’s request.
“The advice from the Environmental Protection Authority and the independent peer reviewer has raised a number of issues with the report, including compliance with the relevant noise standard at several dwellings near the wind farm,” according to a departmental letter dated December 2010.
It is understood relations between Acciona and residents claiming to be suffering ill health from nearby turbines continue to be testy.
A mother-of-three has made an impassioned plea to Governor-General Quentin Bryce, claiming the government has failed to protect her family by allowing a nearby wind farm to operate in a non-compliant manner.
Sam Stepnell said the previous state government had been complicit in allowing the Spanish company Acciona to erect and operate turbines close to homes.
And Ms Stepnell said current Planning Minister Matthew Guy had not signed off on the wind farm although it had been in operation for two years.
“The minister still knows there is a problem with the non-compliant wind farm,” Ms Stepnell wrote.
“What is he going to do to fix the current mess he inherited?”
Ms Stepnell said she had removed her son from Waubra Primary School along with other families because of alleged health effects associated with turbines.
Friends of the Earth spokesman Cam Walker said his organisation supported “getting to the bottom” of the wind turbine issue.
“We are not wind developers, so cannot comment on the design of the Waubra wind farm,” Mr Walker said.
“We do understand that some people are getting sick as a result of living near turbines. This is a terrible situation, and we support getting to the bottom of the issue.”
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Take the subsidies away and see how fast the argument will change,Funny how the Federal Reserve always has money to give away to foreign corporations as subsidies and charge the cost to the American taxpayers. The same taxpayer who's being told part of that money will go to schools. When our own Federal Government was run by the people our taxes used to actually go for schools. So, we give the money to people who should be investing their own money from people who already did. Then, we have to argue about other issues on top of it. I sure wish Mr Schneiderman had the power to actually do something about corruption.
All this when our country has to borrow from China in order to balance it's own budget. Better get a handle on it before this country goes down the drain.
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