Noise and associated from a wind farm in Cumbria

Disintegrating Turbine

SAFE SEPARATION DISTANCES

The propensity of very large industrial wind turbines to catch fire, shed blades or bits thereof, throw ice and, occasionally, to suffer catastrophic, high speed blade failures followed by a tower collapse leads sensible people to question their construction close to houses or transport routes.

The world wide problem of turbine noise nuisance also underlines the need for sensible separation distances.

Other countries have acted on that conclusion. In Scotland there is planning guidance (SPP 6, Renewables) which suggests a 2 kilometre separation distance.

Nothing so sensible exists in England and Wales, where we continue to be at the mercy of developers and the haphazard decisions of local planning authorities, many of which have little experience or understanding of wind turbines.[Extract from the Windbyte site]

The First two videos are just a slide show they are lengthy but well worth listening to.

Although this relates to a quiet country area it is of the minute, some data, eg regarding distances affected and property values, is directly applicable to the Frodsham proposal and it illustrates the issues that local people need to face up to.

Voices of Vinalhaven, Maine Part 1 of 2

Voices of Vinalhaven, Maine Part 2 of 2

Previous attempts at siting a wind farm in Frodsham on Overton Hill

Industrial Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker

The global uproar over badly sited wind turbines. To be released August 2009 in the U.K. Filmed and directed by Nigel Spence

Health problems

Wind Turbines are coming
WindTurbinesAreComing-UK.wmv

How noisy is a Turbine

Against the Wind, people that already have the problem.

The best place for Wind Farms – Off Shore

Noise again