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Wind Turbine Noise Exposure Proven ‘Pathway to Disease’
Australia's Administrative Appeals Tribunal: wind turbine "noise annoyance" low-frequency -infrasound "is a plausible pathway to disease.
Australian court links wind turbine noise with possible diseases
BY SPECTATOR-OBSERVER PARTNERSHIP · FEB 15, 2018
IN a World first, Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has declared that the “noise annoyance” caused by wind turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound “is a plausible pathway to disease”.
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At the AAT hearing in Adelaide, the impacts of wind farm noise were considered by a senior Federal Court judge; the most thorough medial and scientific inquiry on the subject matter conducted in Australia to date.
The Tribunal’s findings were based on the “established association between noise annoyance and some diseases, including hypertension and cardiovascular disease, possibly mediated in part by disturbed sleep and/or psychological stress/distress”.
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Source : SPECTATOR-OBSERVER PARTNERSHIP
https://www.spec.com.au/2018/02/australian-court-links-wind-turbine-noise-possible-diseases/
Wind Turbine Noise Exposure Proven A ‘Pathway To Disease’
Source: PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL
Published on March 1, 2018
Written by Natalie McGregor
