Vermont Proposes Cape Cod Commission Wind Turbine Setbacks 10 X Times

Vermont lawmakers will vote on new wind rules Thursday, June 22 ,2017.

Falmouth Massachusetts wind turbines are 400 feet tall. The "Fatal Flaws Analysis for a Wind Turbine " done by Massachusetts state agencies in 2005 prior to the installations in Falmouth warn of two distinct types of noise from wind turbines. The noise types are "regulatory measured in decibels" and "human annoyance or infra sound."

Researchers from the US Department of Energy and NASA at Boone, North Carolina in 1987 determined the human annoyance from the single wind turbine causing sleep disturbance is low frequency noise otherwise known as infra sound.

The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts several years ago adopted 10 X, ten times, the height of the wind turbines to residential homes after massive noise complaints from at least twenty one communities. Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States taking health and property rights with no compensation.

Falmouth, Massachusetts symptoms that are most often reported: lack of sleep, fatigue, headaches, anxiety, insomnia, dizziness and irritability aka human annoyance.

Falmouth has nine ongoing unresolved lawsuits over its wind turbines.

The country of Poland has two years ago adopted wind turbine setbacks similar to those of the Cape Cod Commission setbacks of 10 times the height of the turbines to residential homes.

New Canadian research shows recently in the past few weeks government officials ignored thousands of noise complaints in its health studies . The most egregious effect of the wind turbines is "annoyance." The self reported surveys reveal people who live near wind turbines world wide were simply more stressed, losing more sleep, or falling more ill at a greater rate than civilians living anywhere else.

The Vermont wind turbine formula in most cases would require up to 3000 foot setbacks and more to just one wind turbine. This appears to be something the neighbors of the turbines can live with while wind turbine developers want to ignore past complaints statewide

Cape Cod Commission Model Wind Turbine Bylaw 10 X rotor diameter :

DOC]1-6-11 Wind DRI Thresholds & RPP MPSs (A0836896-2).DOC

www.capecodcommission.org/resources/RPP/WECF_MPS_AoD042011.doc

Apr 20, 2011 - Minimum Performance Standards for Energy ... study and fund a Cape Cod Commission approved consultant's review of the noise study, and adhere to a setback of 10 times therotor diameter of the proposed turbine

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Vermont 10 x proposal :

COMMENTS OF THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGARDING THE VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD'S PROPOSED RULE 5.700 ON SOUND LEVELS FROM WIND GENERATION FACILITIES

STATE OF VERMONT
PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD

Wind Generation Facility Sound May 11, 2017 :>

Standard Rulemaking

COMMENTS OF THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGARDING THE VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD'S PROPOSED RULE 5.700 ON SOUND LEVELS FROM WIND GENERATION FACILITIES

The Vermont Department of Public Service ("Department"), by the Commissioner and through undersigned counsel, hereby submits the following comments concerning the proposed

Rule 5.700 on Sound Levels from Wind Generation Facilities, filed by the Vermont Public Service Board ("Board") with the Vermont Secretary of State on March 17, 2017.

These comments are additional to the written submissions the Department filed in this proceeding on October 24, November 12, December 12, 2016, January 17, February 3, and April 27, 2017.

The Department strongly supports the implementation of a general 42 dBA daytime and 35 dBA nighttime sound limit measured 100 feet from a non-participating residence, coupled with a setback requirement of ten (10) times a facility's height.

These siting requirements reflect appropriate consideration of the aesthetic impacts of the sound emissions from wind generation facilities, particularly in light of the rural character of Vermont.

That said, the Department urges the Board to revise the proposed rule to better enable enforcement through efficient and accurate compliance assessment.

PDF]TUR131NE1._it, - Vermont Legislature - Vermont.gov

legislature.vermont.gov/.../W~none~17-P10%20Public%20Comments~5-17-2017.pdf
May 17, 2017 - the same adverse sound characteristics as large wind turbines and, thus, should be ...... Proposed Rule 5.700; 10x Turbine Height Setback.