Fwd: upcoming LRPC meeting

[Noah Munro]

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From: Martha Twombly <martha...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Subject: Re:upcoming LRPC meeting
To: "Donald W Martin,CRS,GRI" <d...@oldmillprops.com>, Eleanor Lonske <Elo...@metrocast.net>, cnm...@yahoo.com, LaFontaine Carol & Roger <r...@metrocast.net>, Bank Gene <wx...@metrocast.net>, max stamp <hms...@metrocast.net>, Schatz David <dsc...@comcast.net>, Walsh Linda <lind...@localnet.com>, O'Brien Maryanne <MB_O...@hotmail.com>, Alexander Lee & Polly <lma...@metrocast.net>, Noah Munro <noah...@gmail.com>, Twomblys Betsy & Phil <pnbt...@metrocast.net>, Suzanne Smith <zan...@metrocast.net>
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For anyone particularly interested, see the agenda of this next LRPC meeting.
best,
Martha


--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Suzanne Smith <zan...@metrocast.net> wrote:

> From: Suzanne Smith <zan...@metrocast.net>
> Subject: more info on commercial wind turbines
> To: "Donald W Martin,CRS,GRI" <d...@oldmillprops.com>, "Eleanor Lonske" <Elo...@Metrocast.net>, cnm...@yahoo.com, "LaFontaine Carol & Roger" <r...@metrocast.net>, "Twombly Martha" <martha...@yahoo.com>, "Bank Gene" <wx...@metrocast.net>, "max stamp" <hms...@metrocast.net>, "Schatz David" <dsc...@comcast.net>, "Walsh Linda" <lind...@localnet.com>, "O'Brien Maryanne" <MB_O...@HOTMAIL.COM>, "Alexander Lee & Polly" <lma...@metrocast.net>, "'Noah Munro'" <noah...@gmail.com>, "Twomblys Betsy & Phil" <pnbt...@metrocast.net>
> Cc: "Mooney Curtis" <minpi...@metrocast.net>, "Chuck Beno" <charl...@aol.com>, "Twombly Martha" <martha...@yahoo.com>, "Larochelle Roger" <ro...@squamlakes.com>, "Dunklee John" <dunk...@metrocast.net>, "Hogan Joe" <jho...@metrocast.net>, "Manseau Mitch" <mi...@newfoundfarm.org>, "Wall David" <dfwi...@metrocast.net>
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 8:01 AM
> This article was in USA Today last week.
> suzanne
>
>             Neighbors at odds over noise from wind turbines
>
>
>       By Judy Keen, USA TODAY
>       BROWNSVILLE, Wis. — Not long after the wind
> turbines began to spin in March near Gerry Meyer's home,
> his son Robert, 13, and wife, Cheryl, complained of
> headaches.
>       They have trouble sleeping, and Cheryl Meyer, 55,
> sometimes feels a fluttering in her chest. Gerry is
> sometimes nauseated and hears crackling.
>
>       The culprit, they say, is the whooshing sound from
> the five industrial wind turbines near the 6-acre spread
> where they have lived for 37 years. "I don't think
> anyone should have to put up with this," says Gerry
> Meyer, who compares the sound to a helicopter or a jet
> taking off.
>
>       As more turbines are built, the noise they create is
> stirring debate. Industry groups such as the American Wind
> Energy Association say there's no proof they make people
> sick, but complaints of nausea, insomnia and other problems
> have surfaced near wind farms across the USA.
>
>       Nina Pierpont, a pediatrician in Malone, N.Y., calls
> the ailments Wind Turbine Syndrome and is writing a book on
> them. In the preface, which she shared with USA TODAY, she
> says the syndrome "is an industrial plague. It is
> man-made and easily fixed. Proper setbacks are the best
> cure."
>
>       Laurie Jodziewicz, siting manager for the American
> Wind Energy Association, says there are almost 15,000 wind
> turbines in the USA, and most people live near them
> "without incident. … We would have heard if this was
> a widespread issue."
>
>       The nearest turbine is 1,560 feet from Meyer's
> house. His dismay over an energy source he once thought was
> benign has made the retired mailman, 59, an activist. He
> travels the state warning communities considering wind farms
> to be wary.
>
>       Studies have mixed results
>
>       One of the nation's first nuisance lawsuits
> against a wind farm ended with rulings in 2006 in favor of
> the company that developed it after landowners near the
> Abilene, Texas, project objected to turbine noise.
>
>       Objections to wind farms continue to be raised:
>
>       • Pierpont's website,
> www.windturbinesyndrome.com, includes reports of illness
> from Union, Ore.; Mars Hill, Maine; Saginaw, Texas; King
> City, Mo.; and elsewhere.
>
>       Wendy Todd, who lives 2,500 feet from a turbine in
> Mars Hill, says she suffers sleep deprivation, and her
> neighbors have headaches and dizziness. "You just
> can't get used to it," she says of the noise.
>
>       • British physician Amanda Harry said in a 2007
> study that people living near turbines can experience
> anxiety, depression, vertigo and tinnitus.
>
>       • Mariana Alves-Pereira, a Portuguese acoustical
> engineer, said in a 2007 study that turbines can cause
> vibroacoustic disease, which can lead to strokes and
> epilepsy.
>
>       A 2008 study funded by the European Union, however,
> found that the sound annoys many people, but it doesn't
> affect health "except for the interruption of
> sleep."
>
>       Some of Meyer's neighbors don't understand
> the fuss. People who say the noise makes them ill are
> exaggerating, says Rudy Jaeger, 67, who has a turbine on his
> farm. "It's no worse than traffic driving by."
> Francis Ferguson, chairman of the Byron Town Board, which
> voted to approve the project here, has heard talk that the
> sound makes people sick, but says, "I haven't seen
> any documentation."
>
>       The American Wind Energy Association would like to
> see "a credible, third-party" scientific study,
> Jodziewicz says. Setbacks are settled between developers and
> communities, and there's no industry standard, she says.
>
>       Susan Dennison, spokeswoman for Invenergy, the
> Chicago company that built the 86-turbine wind farm here,
> says it hasn't received any complaints about health
> problems in the area.
>
>       The turbines here, which are 389 feet tall including
> blades, must be 440 feet from property lines and at least
> 1,000 feet from homes, she says.
>
>       Concerns over home values
>
>       Eric Rosenbloom of National Wind Watch, an
> information clearinghouse, says noise and health concerns
> are the top issues in communities considering them. The
> group recommends 1-mile setbacks from homes.
>
>       Rick James, an acoustical engineer from Okemos,
> Mich., suggests keeping turbines 1¼ miles from homes.
>
>       That makes sense to Larry Wunch, a firefighter who
> lives a few miles from the Meyers. Turbines encircle his
> property, and when the wind tops 15 mph, he says, they
> "just scream." The closest is 1,100 feet from his
> house.
>
>       Wunch says he and his wife, Sharon, "have lost
> sleep and are irritated." He worries his home's
> value has declined and says the wind farm has created
> tension between opponents and those who have them on their
> property in exchange for annual payments that Dennison says
> are about $5,000 a year. "It's really turned our
> township upside down," Wunch says.
>
>       "If it's affecting your health," Meyer
> says, "it's hard to ignore."
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>       Find this article at:
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-11-03-windturbines_N.htm


     

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