Wind Farm Realities

Many thanks for your links to Ontario Noise Regulations and Noise Regulations Primer both of which I quoted in my deputation to Norfolk County Council during their comments phase in amalgamating four previous Noise By-Laws into an amalgamated Noise By-Law No. 2010 XX [being a by-law to regulate noise and vibrations within Norfolk County]. Not havin... g an engineering background, I have only my insatiable curiosity driving me to try to understand the processes through which my body is being pummeled by the 18 Vestas 1.65 MW Industrial Wind Turbines [IWTs] which surround my home within a 3 km radius. The most debilitating effect is the sleep deprivation experienced almost nightly and explained in a paper written by Dr. Christopher Hanning a U.K. sleep specialist. Even though not awakened completely, dozens of micro arousals from the deep restorative sleep we all need, I rise in the morning almost as tired as when I went to bed. As a temporary solution, I have rented a place to sleep. Once away from the 18 Vestas, the other symptoms: stuffed ears, constant buzzing in the brain, vertigo and nausea, slowly drop off until I have to return every 72 hours to monitor my home for insurance purposes, then the symptoms return. I have asked AIM PowerGen, the IWT developer to give me the replacement value of my home so I can live elsewhere without result; repeated calls to the MoE Hamilton offices describing the noise and vibration effects have lead to no action other than having agents coming hours or days after the wind direction/speed/barometric pressure/humidity has changed and the debilitating conditions have passed. Wind Concerns Ontario, Victims of Wind, Wind Vigilance, Wind Facts and some of the other sites which you have listed have been sources of information and strength in the 17 months since the Clear Creek/Cultus/Frogmore clusters of IWTs were put into commission. My home has been FOR SALE for four months now and there is no one [not CanWEA, nor AWEA, nor AIM Power Gen/IPC, nor the MoE], prepared to prove how ...Read More