In 2014, Senate Republicans tucked into an 822-page mid-biennium budget review (HB 483) a rider that more than doubled the distance a wind turbine must be from the adjacent property of anyone who opposes the wind energy project, The Plain Dealer’s John Funk has reported.
Wind Noise, Health, & Safety
Recently a Dutch wind farm developer’s home was firebombed. Dutch Wind Developer Fire Bombed What other instances of violence against wind industry staff have occurred?
Sometime around midnight 10-11 April the home of Bob Jans was firebombed in Assen, the Netherlands. Both Jans and his wife were home, asleep at the time.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the man may have taken his own life, it is understood.
Police have identified a worker who died in an accident on a wind farm site in the south of Scotland.
It seems to happen with every new technology. It wasn’t so long ago that some people were convinced a photograph could steal your soul. We may read about that now and have a little chuckle, but are we so far removed from the same phenomenon today?
Patrick McCaffrey (37) from Rossinver, Co Leitrm died on Monday evening after a landslide on a mountain bog on the Sligo-Roscommon border where groundworks for turbines were being carried out.
Study concludes there is no ‘detrimental effect’ on the number of holidaymakers in places with wind turbines
A campaign calling for two kilometers between a turbine and the nearest built environment for new wind farms has failed. State politicians are nonetheless looking for ways to increase acceptance.
The act against wind turbines imposes a number of restrictions on producers of wind energy (except for micro installations and offshore wind farms).
