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Simplified Explanation of the Findings, Previous Research, and the Consequences
Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception
Wind Turbine Torture
Wind turbines... what they're doing to people's health, and now it's official
Groundbreaking study shows the link between “wind turbine signature” and health effects
Wind turbines “are a human health hazard.”
Chevallier: wind turbines, ecological sham and new public health tragedy
The harmful effects of wind turbines
Health effects of wind turbines recognized and explained
How does wind turbine noise affect people?
Diagnostic criteria for adverse health effects in the environs of wind turbines
Public Officials At Risk of Criminal Charges for Torture, by Ignoring Prolonged Sleep Deprivation from Environmental Noise
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Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise: Physics & Cells, History & Health
Lecture by Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira. Held at the University of Waterloo in Ontario on September 12, 2019.
“We find the animals dead without explanation”: farmers expose the harmful effects of wind turbines
Stressed or dead animals without explanation, effects on human health... French State services have released 30,000 euros to explain this mystery.
Infrasound caused by Industrial Wind Turbines
Important 28-minute documentary by the science programme “planet e.” of the second German television ZDF.
World Health Organization: Wind Turbine Noise as a Health Hazard
“The wind industry has denied and ignored evidence directly linking wind turbines and sleep disruption leading to negative human and animal impacts worldwide.”
No, wind turbine noise is not damped by the ground!
All wind turbines in Hesse in Germany must be checked because of the noise they make.
Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise
Lecture about low frequency noise and infrasound and its effects on health, by Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira. Held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 25, 2018.
100% proof of ill effects is not needed
“A few of you have commented that without 100 percent proof that the turbines are harmful you will approve them.”
Sensing but Not Hearing: The Problem of Wind Turbine Noise
Interview with acoustician Steven Cooper, AU.
Infrasound and LFN – its impact on human health
Biomedical engineer Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira recently studied the impact of ILFN from wind turbines in Ireland, concluding that noise regulations need urgent updating to reflect noise levels that endanger human health.
Infrasound from wind turbines is a new signal in the environment
“Never before has there been this kind of continuous, regular infrasound signal covering entire regions.”
Why Wind Turbine Sounds are Annoying, and Why it Matters
Some consider “annoying” has little impact more than, “your gum chewing is annoying,” while for others, an annoying sound can mean loss of sleep.
Do not have children near a wind turbine!
“In the USA, Eric Zou, PhD student, observed a clear increase of complaints for insomnia with help services and also suicides from the installation of wind turbines. In Belgium, Dr Leproult (ULB) measures mortality due to lack of sleep.”
Expert Witness Statement of Sarah Elisabeth Laurie, CEO, Waubra Foundation
“When the acoustic startle reflex is repeatedly triggered during sleep, it results in chronic sleep deprivation which worsens with progressive low frequency noise sensitization.”
Case Report: Cross-Sensitisation to ILFN
“Exposed to residential infrasound and low frequency noise due coal mining activities, the subjects reacted suddenly, strongly and unexpectedly to pressure pulses generated by a wind farm located at a different town [...]”
BCCRWE Reissued Press Release: Brown County hosts special meeting on wind turbine health effects
The meeting demonstrated that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that wind turbines pose public health risks.
Reader’s report on Eric Zou, “Wind Turbine Syndrome: The Impact of Wind Farms on Suicide”
By Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD.
The impact of wind turbines on suicide
“Exploiting over 800 utility-scale wind turbine installation events in the United States from 2001-2013, I show robust evidence that wind farms lead to significant increases in suicide.”
Whale Infra-Sound Death Watch
“Ocean wind turbine construction is complete off Block Island, Rhode Island. Onshore and offshore wind turbines give off infra-sound.”
Medical testimony of Dr Herb Coussons
“Vibro-acoustic disease has now been autopsy-proven to show soft tissue proliferation, particularly collagen and fibro-elastic tissue that causes heart problems, hypertension, and other physiologic proven findings. This is not isolated to wind turbines.”
A new methodology for investigating ILFN complaints
Paper presented by Steven Cooper in Zurich at the 12th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem.
The Vestibular System Mediates Sensation of Low-Frequency Sounds in Mice
“The vestibular system has the potential to extend the hearing range of mammals and hence their ability to detect low frequency sounds of behavioral significance.”
Critique of the Statement by the French National Academy of Medicine issued May 9, 2017
By Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD.
Wind turbine health impacts can be like seasickness, according to a recently retired consultant physician
Dr Spring was Ballarat’s pre-eminent sleep specialist for many years. His many patients included wind turbine neighbours.
Reproducing wind farm infrasound for subjective testing – Just how accurate is the reproduced signal?
“The generation of a signal for test subjects that is intended to reflect that of wind farms should use WAVE files of actual wind farm and not synthesised waveforms.”
A rigorous method of addressing wind turbine noise
“Use of this rigorous method permitted gathering evidence of the presence of characteristics described as annoying by residents.” By William K.G. Palmer at the 7th international conference on Wind Turbine Noise held on May 2-5, 2017 in Rotterdam.
Altered cortical and subcortical connectivity due to infrasound administered near the hearing threshold
This study is the first to document changes of brain activity across several regions in response to prolonged near-threshold infrasound using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Infrasound – the boomerang of the energy transition
People living in proximity to wind turbines often describe their complaints concerning low-frequency noise (infrasound) from these turbines as “I feel what you cannot hear”.
SAM Scribe Mk2
Affordable technology that could be purchased by non-specialists, allowing them to record and analyse soundscapes with laboratory-accuracy.
Low Frequency Noise and Health
Lecture about low frequency noise and infrasound and its effects on health, by Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira. Held in Gram, Denmark, on December 14, 2016.
Physiological effects of wind turbine noise on sleep
Swedish study into wind turbine noise suggests that it can have an effect on sleep - even in young fit healthy subjects.
Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise
Seminar presented by Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira at Massey University, New Zealand, on October 13, 2016.
Wind Turbine Noise and Human Health
A Four-Decade History of Evidence that Wind Turbines Pose Risks. By Jerry L. Punch and Richard R. James
Considerations Regarding an Acoustic Criterion for Wind Turbines
“What the audio files show is that even though the sounds might all be the same value of dBA, the levels of annoyance can be very different.”
Living under a wind turbine?
Impacts of wind turbines on health. Lecture by Dr Johannes Mayer, MD, Diploma in Osteopathic Medicine.
“During the time that the wind turbines were off ALL OF MY SYMPTOMS went away.”
Shirley Wind Shutdown On/Off Case Crossover Testimonies.
Statistical study: Wind turbines and Health
An objective method to evaluate of the possible impacts of wind turbines on health.
Open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO)
“... for too long mitigation against adverse health effects following the construction of wind turbines has been absent from planning guidelines and noise pollution regulations in many European countries, especially with respect to sound below 200 Hz.”
Health director shouldn't ignore victims
“Unnecessary noise, then, is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on sick or well.”
WHO Environmental noise guidelines for the European Region
“... new noise sources of concern for public health, such as wind turbines, were not addressed in previous guidelines.”
Environmental noise and sleep disturbances: A threat to health?
“Nocturnal environmental noise may be the most worrying form of noise pollution in terms of its health consequences...”
Wind turbines cause chronic stress in badgers
“Badgers are suitable mammals to further assess physiologic changes as a result of wind farm developments because they often reside in habitats in which turbines are constructed. Importantly, badgers also have a similar hearing range to humans.”
Polish Institute of Public Health: wind farm setback recommendations
“... the Institute recommends 2 km as the minimum distance of wind farms from buildings.”
Important: Support for Research on wind turbines
Dr David Lawrence, Internal Physician from Connecticut, USA: “This is about trying to scientifically establish a cause and effect relationship of IWTs and adverse human effects.”
Management of Sound Emissions from wind turbines
This document first blows the whistle on the handling of dangerous sound emissions from wind turbines by Responsible Authorities and the wind industry; and second it defines what is necessary to ensure that the industry, in future, is constrained to operate safely.
Waubra Foundation comments on Polish siting rules
“... the proposed initiatives, whilst an improvement, will not adequately protect the Polish people living in the acoustic impact zone of impact of industrial wind turbines, especially as they increase in size and power generating capacity.”
Tonic tensor tympani syndrome (TTTS)
There has been a suggestion that this condition is actually part of what some people chronically exposed to wind turbine noise might be experiencing.
The Effect of Varying Distances from the Wind Turbine on Meat Quality of Growing-Finishing Pigs
“Avoiding noise-induced stress is important not only for maintaining meat quality but also for improving animal welfare.”
County Health Officer Admits Feeling Ill
“Carolyn the times I have been out there by the Wind Turbines, l get such migraine headaches. I think I should take some preventative Tylenol before I head out there.”
Infrasonic Measurements - Inter-Noise 73
By Per V. Brüel and Hans P. Olesen. The first author was one of the two founders of Brüel & Kjær, a world leading manufacturer and supplier of acoustic and vibration measurement instrumentation.
Wind farm infrasound - What are we measuring?
By Steven E. Cooper - 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - Jacksonville, Florida - 02-06 November 2015.
Professional Caution to Brown County Health Dept
“In my line of work, there is no excuse for harming neighbors; most certainly no excuse available to a health officer who should be held to an even higher standard of conduct.”
Sarah Laurie - Speech for the Falmouth Rally
“That fundamental human right to the best possible health specified in most United Nations Human Rights instruments, is not possible if people cannot sleep.”
EEG reaction under low frequency noise exposure
“It was demonstrated that EEG was effective for objective evaluation as a physiological index and could be an explanation for low frequency noise sufferers.”
Psychiatric physician speaks out on health effects from wind turbines
“The human nervous system is the most sensitive instrument available to date for evaluating the impact of the Falmouth wind turbines on residents who live close to them.”
Steven Cooper: Cape Bridgewater wind farm acoustic testing program findings
Video presentation to discuss the results of the Cape Bridgewater wind farm acoustic testing program.
Infrasound Emissions from Wind Turbines have Adverse Health Effects
This was the first time that infrasound generated by wind turbines was verified by measurements in Finland.
Wind Turbine Amplitude Modulation and Planning Control Study
“With the emergence of the EAM problem the industry now ignores any acoustic emissions below 100 Hz.”
Wind farms do make you sick
Wind farms can contribute to people getting diseases such as cancer and heart attacks, two leading Irish health experts have warned.
Wind turbines worse than asbestos?
“In the future, I believe that the adverse health effects of wind turbines will eclipse the asbestos problem in the annals of history.”
Infrasound / low frequency noise and industrial wind turbines
“With the proliferation of recent research and the rediscovery of earlier, until now largely ignored studies, infrasound and low frequency noise can no longer be dismissed as irrelevant.”
Critical eye over industrial wind turbines, with Senator Leyonhjelm and Annie Gardner
Extract from Richo + Jones show aired on August 4, 2015.
Alan Jones – the Senate committee into wind farms
Alan talks to Sonia Trist, Jan Hetherington and Annie Gardner about the health impact of wind farms.
Select Committee on Wind Turbines: Final Report
“Those who have labelled 'wind turbine syndrome' as a communicated disease or a psychogenic condition have been too quick to judge. [...] This has understandably caused those who suffer adverse symptoms even greater distress.”
Wind turbine syndrome is not confined to English-speaking countries!
Lilli-Ann Green gives evidence that wind turbines cause adverse health impacts for some people who live nearby in France, Germany, Holland, Denmark and Sweden.
Brains ‘excited’ by wind turbines: study
Groundbreaking research from Germany on low-frequency “infrasound” adds to the recent body of work that is challenging wind energy proponents’ insistence that turbines are not linked to health complaints reported by those living close by.
Are wind farms harmful to humans?
To give the debate more objectivity, an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound).
School board reinforces the need for Joey, to be protected from visual and aural distractions
At the same time, seventy-seven, 3 MW, 185 metre-high, whirling, flickering, noisy industrial wind turbines are being planned!
Wind Turbines Can Harm Humans
Presentation by Carmen Krogh at Ideacity Conference in Toronto.
Wind turbines now face overdue scrutiny
“In at least fifteen (15) countries around the world, people from all walks of life have come forward complaining about the health impacts of wind turbines...”
Sick from infrasound, they fight against wind turbines
“You cannot smell it, you cannot see it, and you cannot really hear it but maybe it still drives some people crazy.”
Wind Farm Noise and Human Perception - A Review
Peer-reviewed document by Dr. Bob Thorne of Noise Measurement Services.
Interim Report from the Australian Senate inquiry
“This report records the committee's concern with the issue of infrasound and low frequency noise emitted from wind turbines and the possible impact on human health.”
End the smug untouchability of the wind industry
Evidence is mounting about the health hazards of infrasound. Article by David Leyonhjelm, Senator for New South Wales.
Acoustical Society of America Conference 2015, Waubra Foundation Presentation & Notes
Sarah Laurie was invited by the President of the ASA, and the Director of Acoustics Standards Dr Paul Schomer.
Open letter for Australian politicians
By Sarah Laurie, CEO Waubra Foundation, to amend RE Act to stop wind developers being financially rewarded for noise nuisance and consequent harm to health.
Comparing Sound From Wind Turbines and Other Sources
“Note that the wind turbine is louder than the air ambulance for frequencies below about 10 Hz.”
The health of her son is threatened by a large wind turbine project
Shellie Correia is worried about the health of her son Joey after the seventy-seven, 600-foot towers are built and operating.
German doctors push to halt building of wind turbines
They want more research into the possible health impacts of low-frequency noise from wind turbines.
Direct Experience of Low Frequency Noise and Infrasound within a Windfarm Community
Presented by Dr. Malcolm Swinbanks at Wind Turbine Noise 2015, Glasgow, 20-23 April 2015.
Infrasonic vibrations of wind turbines: a statistical test of sanitary harmfulness
This method excludes any subjectivity. The subjectivity is systematically exploited by the wind lobby for 30 years!
Cape Bridgewater – Senate Inquiry Hearing
Infrasound emissions from wind turbines and their impacts on nearby residents.
Infrasound Measurements of Falmouth Wind Turbines
This study finds that the wind turbines produce acoustic emissions which are “acoustically trespassing” into the Andersen home.
Open Letter to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews
Re: Decision to reduce wind turbine setback distances from 2 km to 1 km – By Sarah Laurie, CEO Waubra Foundation.
Submission of Dr Christopher Hanning
to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines.
Submission of Emeritus Professor Colin H Hansen
to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines.
Waubra Foundation CEO Sarah Laurie responds to Mr George Hessler – Hessler Associates Inc.
Re: His comments about the Pacific Hydro funded Cape Bridgewater Research by Steven Cooper.
Comments about the Pacific Hydro funded Cape Bridgewater Research by Steven Cooper
By George Hessler – Hessler Associates Inc. – Consultants in Engineering Acoustics.
Cape Bridgewater report – Story Details
Great TV program with acoustics expert Steven Cooper, Dr Paul Schomer, participating residents in the survey, etc.
Wind Turbine Torture
“People are willing to tolerate, approve, and contribute to the torture of their neighbors with the ill effects of wind turbines simply because they have been told by public officials, the media, or green zealots that it is necessary to 'save the planet'.”
Wind Turbine Wars – Steven Cooper
An important interview of acoustic engineer Steven Cooper on Fairdinkum Radio.
Canadian research boosts Cooper’s case on turbines
Acoustics expert Steven Cooper has expanded his legal action to include vocal wind farm advocate Simon Chapman, as independent research was produced to support the findings of high-level infrasound at Cape Bridgewater in Victoria.
Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception
The chronology of a global conspiracy of silence and subterfuge is set out as a timeline. An excellent reference tool made by Stop These Things.
“Well done Steven Cooper and the residents of Cape Bridgewater”
Jackie Rovensky's Open Letter, a response to Mr Crockett's public statement.
“It has never been about money, it is about being able to live in our home”
Rikki Nicholson's Open Letter, a response to Mr Crockett's public statement.
Pacific Hydro refuses to deal with health damaging levels of wind turbine emissions
Melissa Ware's Open Letter, a response to Mr Crockett's public statement.
Unseen, unheard wind farms a blow to health
Groundbreaking Australian research has established a “cause and effect” existed between wind farms and health impacts on some nearby residents, a peer review by one of the world’s leading acoustic experts says.
Doctors defend the Waubra Foundation as a Health Promotion Charity
On Dec. 11, 2014 the Australian Charities Commission ruled that the Waubra Foundation was not a Health Promotion Charity.
Infrasound and Motion Sickness
In this video presentation, Kevin A. Dooley describes the basics of sound, and proceeds to draw a compelling relationship between motion sickness symptoms, and infrasound exposure, with specific reference to wind turbine installations.
More hidden impacts of infrasound and low-frequency noise – Maternal and child health issues
Melissa Ware's Open letter to Australian Breastfeeding Association
Simplified Explanation of the Findings, Previous Research, and the Consequences
of Acoustic Engineering Investigation into Airborne and Ground-Borne Pressure Pulses from Cape Bridgewater Wind Turbines.
Wind turbines... what they're doing to people's health, and now it's official
Good video footage of Waterloo and strong statements by the presenters plus some footage of acoustics expert Steven Cooper.
The health impact of wind turbines in the wake of new research
Alan Jones makes a good summary and then talks to David Mortimer.
Groundbreaking new study shows the link between “wind turbine signature” and health effects
Acoustics expert Steven Cooper demonstrates a link between infrasound components of the blade pass frequency (and its harmonics) and the residents’ sensation observations.
Infrasound and low-frequency noise at Waterloo wind farm
Comparison of the noise levels measured in the vicinity of a wind farm for shutdown and operational conditions.
Provision of Expert Opinion concerning the Adverse Impacts of Wind Turbine Noise
By Sarah Laurie, CEO Waubra Foundation
Wisconsin: Wind siting report not to be trusted
Many facts were excluded from the report, leaving its readers ill-informed or misled.
ACNC Reaffirms Waubra Foundation’s Charity Status but Ignores Diseases Caused by Sleep Deprivation
Public Statement by Waubra Foundation
Letter of Notice to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews
By Sarah Laurie, CEO Waubra Foundation
Health Canada and wind turbines: too little too late?
Carmen Krogh, BScPharm (retired) and R Y McMurtry, Professor Emeritus (Surgery) of Western University, comment on the Health Canada Study results and provide some historical context.
“The wind industry is dangerous to human health, posing risks to everything from dizziness and nausea to chronic stress and heart conditions”
Lawrence Solomon: Ill winds blow from wind turbines
Infrasound found in homes near wind farm
GLENCOE, Pa. — Low-frequency sounds can be detected in houses as far as a mile from wind turbines, an expert said.
The Health Canada study: wind turbine noise causes health problems for many
Epidemiologist Joan Morris denounces the misleading conclusion that was published in many newspapers.
“We know it's a crap report”, says the eminent Dr. Robert McMurtry
The founding director of The Society for Wind Vigilance, comments on the Health Canada study of industrial wind turbines.
Wind turbines are a human health hazard
Powerful interview of Dr. Jay Tibbetts (Brown County, Wisconsin) by Alan Jones.
Health Canada’s study further victimizes wind turbine refugees and cohabitants
A case of widespread consumer fraud and systemic government abetted torture.
Wind turbine annoyance – A clue from acoustic room modes.
In rooms where annoyance was felt, the frequencies flagged by room mode calculations and the low-frequency spikes observed from wind turbine measurements coincided.
Chevallier: wind turbines, ecological sham and new public health tragedy
Studies show a link between these gigantic industrial installations and health problems.
Public Officials At Risk of Criminal Charges for Torture, by Ignoring Prolonged Sleep Deprivation from Environmental Noise
Public Statement by Waubra Foundation
Wind turbines “are a human health hazard.”
“Ear pain, ear pressure, headaches, nausea, many are suffering from sleep deprivation”, adds Audrey Murphy, the Chairman of the Brown County Board of Health.
At long last infrasound is mentioned in a proposed wind turbine noise bylaw!
If a resident complains about infrasound, the municipality of Plympton–Wyoming, Ontario, Canada would hire an engineer qualified to take the measurements before laying a charge.
Diagnostic criteria for adverse health effects in the environs of wind turbines
By Robert Y McMurtry and Carmen ME Krogh
Sounds you can't hear can still hurt your ears
Listening to just 90 seconds of low-frequency sound can change the way your inner ear works for minutes after the noise ends, a new study shows.
Windfarms, Water and the Smoking gun...
Windfarms, water pollution and the link to trihalomethanes and cancer.
The harmful effects of wind turbines
Extract from Down Wind, a Sun News documentary.
“‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ symptoms are the same as ‘noise annoyance’ symptoms”
Statement by Professor Geoffrey Leventhall to the NHMRC at the workshop in June 2011.
Submission to the NSW Planning Assessment Commission, re Gullen Range Wind Development
By Michael Crawford, Waubra Foundation Director and Sarah Laurie, Waubra Foundation CEO.
Noise Monitoring in the Vicinity of the Waterloo Wind Farm
The results show that there is a low frequency noise problem associated with the Waterloo wind farm.
Open letter on Wind Farms & The RET
Sent to: Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Minister Greg Hunt, Minister Ian Macfarlane, Senator John Madigan, Senator Nick Xenophon, Senator Chris Back, Dan Tehan, MP, Premier Denis Napthine.
Against obligate parasites
A modern hero, standing alone in the Australian Senate
Open letter to Kane Thornton, acting CEO of the Clean Energy Council
By Sarah Laurie, CEO Waubra Foundation
Giant wind turbines close down plant nursery
All female employees have been complaining of irregular menstruations, and several workers have permanent headaches.
Danish MP advises her Government of numerous health complaints
In a video, we see Karina Adsbøl addressing the Minister of Health at a hearing about the deleterious effects of wind turbines.
Infrasound emitted by wind turbines
University of Minnesota researchers used natural snowfall to visualize airflow of large-scale wind turbine.
Important letter from Dr. Nina Pierpont to Esen Fatma Kabadayı
Dr. Nina Pierpont explains, clinically, why building industrial wind turbines on the edge of Çeşme, is a bad idea.
Another horror story from Denmark
When the wind blows from the South West (where the nearby wind turbines are), mother minks attack their own puppies – those that were born healthy after the 1,600 miscarriages of last month.
Wind turbines causing mothers to eat their own babies, says mink farmer
The owner of a Danish mink farm has reported more casualties among his animals.
Measurement of infrasound from a wind turbine
A physicist and acoustic engineer wrote to us...
'I need to protect my autistic child from wind farms'
The parents of autistic children have particular fears about the effects turbines and high voltage pylons may have on their quality of life.
1,600 miscarriages at fur farm near wind turbines
Denmark: 1,600 animals were born prematurely at a mink farm this month. Many had deformities, and most were dead on arrival. The lack of eyeballs was the most common malformation.
Response to Australian Medical Association position statement on wind turbine health effects
Letter of Dr. Bruce Rapley, Ph.D., consulting scientist in acoustics and human health
Infrasound and human health
Kevin Dooley, an acoustic researcher and inventor, describes his work with infrasound, defining it as motion sickness, which can have a profound effect on human health.
Wind farms and health
There is an international consensus emerging for a separation distance of 2 km between human habitation and wind turbines.
How does wind turbine noise affect people?
The many ways by which unheard infrasound and low-frequency sound from wind turbines could distress people living nearby are described.
Health effects of wind turbines recognized and explained
Abridged version of the documentary WIND RUSH.
