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NOISE SPECIALIST CHEERS WIND FARM REPORT
Beyond the scientific value of the report's raw results, a standout feature of this study - Cooperative Partnership. Possible in Falmouth?
(full article: The Australian/ Graham Lloyd, Environment Advisor. See https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2015/01/23/noise-specialist-cheers-wind-...
~ A study of health impacts from low-frequency noise at Victoria’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm is “groundbreaking” and makes “a unique contribution to science”, a noise and health expert says.
Bob Thorne, a psycho-acoustician qualified to assess health impacts from noise, said the obvious question from the report, written for owner Pacific Hydro, was whether the operation could be modified to reduce or mitigate disturbances to residents.
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“At 235 pages for the report and six technical annexures (491 pages), the study cannot be matched by any previous wind farm study in Australia,” Dr Thorne said in a letter to its author, Steven Cooper, and provided to The Australian.
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~ “Due to the small number of residents surveyed, Mr Cooper and the company said, more testing was required.”
The Falmouth community and impacted citizens hope this study might forecast a direction forward. The combative and adversarial climate pervading the current relationship between government and citizen has the ability to finally move forward toward fixing underlying problems of a mistakenly sited wind project.
(the report found at - http://www.pacifichydro.com.au/files/2015/01/Cape-Bridgewater-Acoustic-R...)
