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Kingston flicker study starting; Residents share opinions on regulations
April 28, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
April 28, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
All five wind turbines in Kingston - the Independence, Mary O'Donnell's three turbines and the T's turbine - will be part of a shadow flicker study coordinated by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Monday night, the Board of Health informed residents and others at a meeting for discussion of possible new shadow flicker regulations that the study would start this week. A report from the contractor CEC chooses to conduct the study would be completed by June 10.
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Scituate selectman candidates talk wind turbine
April 12, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger
April 12, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger
Burbine, 64, a small-business owner, said the residents who live near the turbine, which is off the Driftway, need relief. ..."You can't help but feel empathy, and (I'm) so sad for those people that are dealing with all of this without any real recourse," Burbine said."If we've got to spend a little bit of money, risk-wise, to say, ‘OK, let's turn it off from 7 p.m. at least until first thing in the morning,' we might risk $100,000," Gilmore said. "What's $100,000 (if we're protecting residents)?"
Flickering shadows from wind turbines draw complaints
April 5, 2013 by Peter Schworm and David Filipov in Boston Globe
April 5, 2013 by Peter Schworm and David Filipov in Boston Globe
Dan Alves calls the shadows thrown by the rotating blades a "nightmare" he deals with about 16 weeks a year when the sun sets behind the turbine.
"It's an invasion of my property," he said from the deck outside his back door. Alves said he particularly worries about his son, a ninth-grader who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a young child. ...At the request of town officials, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center recently agreed to examine the issue.
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Massachusetts Clean Energy Center commits to Kingston turbine flicker review
March 30, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
March 30, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has agreed to commission a shadow flicker study of Kingston's wind turbines.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center spokesman Catherine Williams confirmed there will be a study.
Middle-school student Brian Reilly says he can't play basketball on Leland Road when the strobing effect from the Kingston Wind Independence (KWI) Turbine's shadow flicker is at full throttle. "I get a wicked bad headache so I have to go inside," Brian told the Journal as he stood on the front steps of his neighbors house.
Casna, Sapir exchange barbs over motion to push BOS into shadow-flicker mitigation
February 26, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
February 26, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
This week, Kingstonians within the shadow-flicker zone of the town's largest turbine might be one-step closer to enacting regulations on the strobing effect caused by the turbine's interaction with sunlight at certain times of day, both in the morning and the evening.
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"The state put the carts before the horse when it came to assuring that there were proper protective measures and bylaws in place," said Joanne Levesque, of Wind Wise. "Now they're coming to find out that there are very serious adverse impacts to residents who live nearby."
Board of Health discusses how to regulate Kingston's supersized turbines
February 6, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
February 6, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal
Claims of ill-health effects stemming from the Kingston Wind Independence (KWI) Turbine were on full display this week during a Board of Health (BOH) meeting that turned into a series of emotional appeals and disturbing revelations.
"'Flicker' is a euphemism," said Preller, who is self-employed. "I can't see my computer screen. I can't read. I bought heavy, thick blinds, but it doesn't matter. It comes right through.
"We are shut out from doing our work for 45 minutes in the middle of the afternoon."
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The board delayed action on noise regulations, but it began discussion on the setback distance.
The board's chairman, Ron Conderman, recommended keeping the current 1,400 feet ...Fassler suggested a mile, which he said would require wind farms to negotiate with everyone in that area. Neighbors shouldn't have to negotiate after wind turbines are up, he said.
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The Kobetzes claim the wind tower's motion and noise from the turbine has resulted in a loss of property value and loss of enjoyment of their property.
The Spencers claim that placement of the electricity-generating tower is allowed by township zoning and protected under the Michigan Right to Farm Act.
Winds of change: Fresh hope for householders' lives blighted by 'strobe light' effect from turbines
March 17, 2011 in Daily Mail
March 17, 2011 in Daily Mail
The blight of shadow flicker from turbine blades could soon be a thing of the past for those living near wind farms.
The government has recommended strict guidelines for developers to relieve householders of the annoying strobe-like effect.
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Residents in the town of Falmouth say that a nearly 400-foot wind turbine has severely impacted their quality of life. They talk about noise issues, ringing in their ears and changes in pressure when they are outside. But sound isn't the only thing generating discontent. ...there also are complaints about a phenomenon called ‘shadow flicker'.
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Another problem is the noise, Next Era says the turbines sounds like a refrigerator running, Stephanie says while that is true some times, it's not all the time. She says sometimes it sounds like a jet engine, other times like metal being shaken, and a few times the turbines will start whistling.
become unbearable since the wind turbines arrived a year ago.
"Last summer when it started, I left my house. I just couldn't stand it. I've had friends over that left during the situation, saying, 'I'm starting to get a headache,'" Curley said Friday.
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A North Lincolnshire wind farm plan has been rejected because of the "serious effect" it would have on eight-year-old autistic twin boys living nearby.
Anita and Trevor Glathorne, who have one wind farm overlooking their Burton upon Stather home, said the rotating blades affected their sons' behaviour.
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Wind tower neighbor bought out for health reasons
December 22, 2009 by Chris Braithwaite in Barton Chronicle
December 22, 2009 by Chris Braithwaite in Barton Chronicle
Barbara Ashbee-Lormand traveled from central Ontario to central Vermont in late October to a discussion of an industrial wind turbine development proposed for the town of Ira, organized by Vermonters for a Clean Environment.
She's a rare figure in the debate over the effects big wind towers have on people. She's one of only two homeowners that a major wind company, Canadian Hydro Developers, has conceded it bought out because of their complaints that the huge gadgets proved to be impossible to live with.
Neighbouring council to Fenland rejects wind turbine on flicker, ice and intrusiveness grounds
August 10, 2009 in The Cambs Times
August 10, 2009 in The Cambs Times
A long-running campaign to build a wind turbine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn has been dealt another blow by councillors.
The latest application to build an 80m turbine in the hospital grounds has been refused by West Norfolk's development control board ...This is the second planning application for the turbine which has been turned down.
Wind power can generate headaches for nearby residents
July 1, 2009 by Mark Rickard in Victoria Star
July 1, 2009 by Mark Rickard in Victoria Star
Wind turbines located too close to homes and humans can pose a health hazard, a Mars Hill area resident warned New Denmark homeowners during a REACT (Reacts Efforts Against Construction of Turbines in New Denmark) sponsored meeting held in the community recently. ...Todd said if wind turbines setbacks were increased, the negative effects on nearby landowners would be greatly reduced, if not eliminated.
The two sides are scheduled to meet Tuesday night at the company headquarters to discuss the company's 120-foot wind turbine. It was installed in April "to help Aldridge Electric offset their retail rate electricity," according to a company news release.
Since then, neighbors have complained of noise levels, light from the turbine's reflective surface, and the "flicker effect" created by the rotating fan blade.
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