The analysis reaffirms hundreds of subjective reports from residents living near wind turbine installations about daily disturbances.
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New scientific measurements reveal that industrial wind turbines (IWTs) in Ontario routinely exceed acceptable noise limits set by Ministry of Environment (MOE) guidelines.
Five typical sites in central Ontario were independently monitored using precision sound recording instruments.
Two sites provided background sound levels with no exposure to wind turbines. Three other sites were adjacent to turbines with distances ranging from .6 to 1.4 kilometres between the IWTs and the measuring instruments. These are distances beyond the 550m distance set by MOE.
The data shows that when wind turbines are present, the associated sound pressure levels are repeatedly higher than government guidelines permit during the day, evenings and late at night.[Wind Victims Ontario]
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A couple of things are worth noting about this report from N. Kouwen.
First his mini-CV(resume) in his report:The principal investigator while not a trained acoustician is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) and is registered as a Professional Engineer in Ontario and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Not an acoustician, but has credentials up the ying-yang from the Canadian equivalent of MIT or CalTech.
Then, did you catch where the Distinguished Professor Emeritus lives? He is from the same township as the wind farm.
Notice that the wind industry has been taking it on the chin every time they locate one of their pinwheel factories in a town with a working or retired engineer.
There was once a rumor that wind developers stayed out of a community with a Starbucks, presumably because a Starbucks draws a educated, well-to-do crowd that would eat a wind farm as snack with their decaf lattes.
Well, the hell with Starbucks, developers should be staying clear of hibernating, retired engineers looking for a project and cause.
The only regret I have about this report is that it did not include the Wolfe Island Wind Farm.
Trieste even mentioned Starbucks in her Webinar, community acceptance of wind in Little Appalachia.
When Thayer was in CV with Marion's pizza show he made mention of Starbucks, too....Siad something like property values were higher near a starbuck sorta meaning that CV property was not worth much anyway.
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