{"id":4566,"date":"2009-10-22T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:59:14","slug":"victorian-government-launches-study-of-wind-turbine-low-frequency-noise-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/victorian-government-launches-study-of-wind-turbine-low-frequency-noise-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Government studies turbine low frequency noise (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/span>“Mr Kavanagh raised the issue in parliament on September 2, after meeting with several Waubra residents who claim [claim?\u00a0 Interesting word to use—Editor<\/em>] the towers have caused headaches, nausea and sleep deprivation since they began operating in June.\u00a0 \u201cI did a tour of Waubra in late August and people there are very upset about the wind farm,\u201d Mr Kavanagh said.\u00a0 \u201cMost of them were fairly happy to go along with the turbines before they were installed, but now I know of one family who won\u2019t live in their house.\u00a0 It certainly isn\u2019t an isolated incident.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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—Kim Stephens, The Courier<\/a> (10\/15\/09)<\/p>\n

The Victorian Government will examine claims that Waubra\u2019s 128-turbine wind farm is harming the health of nearby residents.\u00a0 Finance, WorkCover and Transport Accident Commission Minister, Tim Holding, wrote to Western Victoria MLC Peter Kavanagh earlier this week to confirm that three government departments would examine \u201cpotential hazards\u201d caused by sub-audible noise emitted by the turbines.<\/p>\n

Mr Kavanagh raised the issue in parliament on September 2, after meeting with several Waubra residents who claim the towers have caused headaches, nausea and sleep deprivation since they began operating in June.\u00a0 \u201cI did a tour of Waubra in late August and people there are very upset about the wind farm,\u201d Mr Kavanagh said.\u00a0 \u201cMost of them were fairly happy to go along with the turbines before they were installed, but now I know of one family who won\u2019t live in their house.\u00a0 It certainly isn\u2019t an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

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WorkSafe Victoria, the Environmental Protection Authority and the Department of Human Services will work with local government to examine the issue raised by Mr Kavanagh.\u00a0 But a WorkSafe spokesman denied the move was a formal investigation.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not an investigation. We are looking at specific claims made by a few local residents,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cQuestions have been asked of the minister and by getting other relevant departments involved we are trying to answer the questions asked.\u00a0 It\u2019s in its very early stages and where it goes we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Acciona Energy, the Spanish company behind the wind farm, said extensive studies of wind farms worldwide were yet to provide conclusive proof that they were harmful.\u00a0 \u201cAcciona Energy is not aware of any investigation but would willingly participate with confidence, knowing there is no clear, consistent scientific data, nor a peer-reviewed scientific consensus, to confirm a connection between modern wind turbines and health concerns,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThe Waubra wind farm meets the stringent noise levels required by government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesman said the farm reached full generation capacity for the first time two weeks ago.
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\u00b7 “Mr Kavanagh raised the issue in parliament on September 2, after meeting with several Waubra residents who claim [claim?\u00a0 Interesting word to use—Editor] the towers have caused headaches, nausea and sleep deprivation since they began operating in June.\u00a0 \u201cI did a tour of Waubra in late August and people there are very upset about the wind farm,\u201d Mr Kavanagh said.\u00a0 \u201cMost of them were fairly happy to go along with the turbines before they were installed, but now I know of one family who won\u2019t live in their house.\u00a0 It certainly isn\u2019t an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}