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Family says turbine vibrations made them ill enough to move
The large house in Lower West Pubnico is now empty and abandoned, d'Entremont says, because inaudible sound from the 17-turbine wind farm made his family sick.
May 13, 2006
by James Keller
in The Hamilton Spectator
Giant wind turbines spin next to Daniel d'Entremont's home in a tiny rural community in southwestern Nova Scotia.
The large house in Lower West Pubnico is now empty and abandoned, d'Entremont says, because inaudible sound from the 17-turbine wind farm made his family sick.
"The noise is unbearable," he says from Abrams River, the nearby community he recently relocated to with his wife and four of his six children.
"It's like a surround sound -- you can't avoid it, you can't ignore it. It just comes right into your head."
D'Entremont blames the turbines for sending low-frequency sound into his old house, located about 400 metres from the nearest turbine.
He says his family couldn't sleep, his children were constantly tired and suffering headaches, and nobody in the house could concentrate.
The d'Entremont family's complaints touch on a little-known -- and little-studied -- debate over whether inaudible sounds from wind... [continue via Web link]
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