About a km away from me is a small concrete products firm, they employ local people and yet the council have imposed working restrictions until they find a larger premises, one quote from the article is
"an executive engineer with the council’s environmental control section, told the court that there are two houses located across the road occupied by families with young children who have had issues with air pollution and noise from the plant"
The article is here http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/limerick-company-to-relocate-following-breaches-1-6951378
Why is Grouselodge wind farm any different, they pollute the air with low frequency noise, infrasound, audible noise 24/7 365 days of the year, they cause local residents to become ill,young children particularly bad, (a lot more than 2) so bad some have been forced away from there own homes, i doubt that they employ anyone local at he wind farm, i know what i would rather have and its not the wind farm pollution
All for subsidies, the council are not really doing anything, last night the noise was 76Db
Friday, 18 September 2015
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Symptons Of Motion Sickness
Piece below from No Wind Turbines Facebook Group
People forced to live next to industrial wind turbines complain about the symptoms of motion sickness. Severe headaches, nausea and loss of balance are the frequent complaints. So are we going to be told that brain zapping is what we all need?!
Governments, Local Councils, Planners and the Councillors need to be 100% convinced that the many people living nearby industrial wind turbines would not suffer any ill health due to their decision over all applications.
The many globally published peer reviewed documents validate evidence that shows living next to a wind turbine can be harmful to humans and animals. Living with random sound pollution and the repetitive swoosh, screeching and clunking noises from wind turbines can be continuously disturbing - day and night – and the following symptoms have been identified:
° Headaches/migraines which are increased in frequency or severity.
° Sleep problems, insomnia, awakening from aerodynamic modulation noise.
° Dizziness, nausea and unsteadiness.
° Depression, exhaustion, irritability, stress, anger and anxiety.
° Concentration and learning problems, especially in children.
° Tinnitus and ear infections.
° Heart palpitations and lung disorders and death
Friday, 4 September 2015
Lets Hide The True Noise Levels
One of the conditions set out by ABP was to measure the noise a certain way, AWN who carried out the noise monitoring decided to change the planning condition set down by ABP, from measuring LAeq to LA 90 - now I will get too technical but this means they have decided to try and hide the level of noise to suit their needs using a noise description of L90 rather than LAeq as set out in the planning condition. this gives a totally wrong reading, we are also subjected to shadow flicker which was another condition set out by the planning department, as well as the audible noise being heard inside the house we are being subjected to LFN/infrasound which has serious side effects, Read here to find out more
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Subsidies, funding, then the true facts
I have heard of other local residents being affected in some way, some have moved away completely due to ill health, it is very disappointing when something is built with claims of improving the area and infrastructure and all it does is to ruin local residents daily life, a wind farm operation that receives subsidies paid for by the tax payer should not make the local residents ill or for them to leave there properties due to noise, illness, etc, it is all well and good paying local groups a few thousand each year in funding but the tax payer is paying for this themselves to start with, what about the local residents close to the wind farm that are being affected, the wind farm should be compensating these people, put the tax payers paid subsidies to some good use find a solution to stop the shadow flicker, constant audible noise and Low Frequency Noise, we have as citizens, a constitutional right to live in our own homes and enjoy it. Landowners of the wind farm are compensated enough yearly to allow them to move away to a different area.
Saturday, 22 August 2015
Dont Do What The Planners Say
AWS who carried out the noise monitoring decided to change the planning condition from measuring LAeq to LA 90 - now I will get too technical but this means they have decide to try and hide the level of noise to suit their needs using a noise description of L90 rather than LAeq as set out in the planning condition
Dear Planning enforcement
Dear Planning enforcement
We wish to lodge a Section 160 potential breach of planning against the Grouselodge Wind farm planning application number 08/58.
We live at XXXX, Ardagh, Co.Limerick and having studied the EIS (environmental impact statement) submitted by the developer along with the planning conditions set by ABP we believe that this wind farm is failing to operate within its compliance limits and as such given the wording of the ABP Order should be "stopped until written agreement is reached with the planning authority on design or operational alterations intended to reside the noise accordingly. "
We have read the AWS noise compliance report and note that they have change the planning conditions as set down by ABP to suit their needs. This is a violation of the PDA (2000) as amended. Rather than using the noise description “LAeq (5min)” as set out in the planning condition they have used “LA90 (10 min)” and then added 2db to compensate for the fact they are using LA90. This is completely unacceptable because the L90 relies upon using only 10% of the quietest time in the 10 minute period for noise measurement whereas the LAeq uses noise data from the entire period.
This use of LA90 masks the variation of the noise generated by the wind farm. For example it would remove any amplitude modulation which is typical with these wind turbines where it can be observed that a 10db variation in the noise levels over a 1 second interval can occur. (i.e at blade pass frequency). Below is a measurement from a Nordex turbine displaying these phenomena.
We also note that no measurement of tonality was taken. The Nordex turbines are well known for creating a drone around the 168Hz Frequency range. Here is a noise recording taking from a Nordex turbine showing the very high tonal component. This is indicated by the massive ridge in the 168Hz range.
We ask that
a) with immediate effect you issue an order to stop these turbines until such time as they can produce a noise compliance report which is measured to the requirements of the ABP planning condition.
b) You ask for a noise report which includes
a. The use of the correct noise description of LAeq (5min) as specified in the ABP Order.
b. When plotting the noise data that only the down wind noise measurements are used as using any others will lead to erroneous data plots
c. A set of tonal measurements to the Institute of Acoustics approved methodology to ensure that there is no penalty to apply for tonal components.
I look forward to your immediate action on this.
Yours
XXXX
XXXX
Ardagh
Co. Limerick
Thursday, 20 August 2015
First post of this blog wind farm infra sound
Hopefully this blog will bring some awareness to the problems surrounding wind farms, these are the problems that developers, planners etc don't tell you about, such as infra sound, i also intend to keep a weekly record on this blog of grouse lodge wind farm noise nuisance, illness etc, it is worth noting that i have contacted the council but they have failed to do anything or even get in contact so far, when they do i will update this accordingly, some links below on infra sound and the illness
What you cannot hear CAN affect you.
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