“First with the installation of the test towers and the high-pitch sounds emitting from them, we lost 26 of our 38 emus with no eggs laid,” the Van Tassels wrote in an email. “During the time the turbines were erected and the test towers were still in place, we lost five more emus.”
“First with the installation of the test towers and the high-pitch sounds emitting from them, we lost 26 of our 38 emus with no eggs laid,” the Van Tassels wrote in an email. “During the time the turbines were erected and the test towers were still in place, we lost five more emus.”
Operators of Ocean Breeze Emu Farm in Digby County are shutting down due to a nearby wind turbine farm.
The farm’s operators, Davey and Deb Van Tassel, say they started having problems with their emus when test towers were put up for the wind power farm.
“First with the installation of the test towers and the high-pitch sounds emitting from them, we lost 26 of our 38 emus with no eggs laid,” the Van Tassels wrote in an email. “During the time the turbines were erected and the test towers were still in place, we lost five more emus.”
The Van Tassels were told the birds “had died of fear,” they said.
The problems have continued, they say, the agitation from the turbines causing the remaining birds “to run and run night and day, wearing …
... more [truncated due to possible copyright]Operators of Ocean Breeze Emu Farm in Digby County are shutting down due to a nearby wind turbine farm.
The farm’s operators, Davey and Deb Van Tassel, say they started having problems with their emus when test towers were put up for the wind power farm.
“First with the installation of the test towers and the high-pitch sounds emitting from them, we lost 26 of our 38 emus with no eggs laid,” the Van Tassels wrote in an email. “During the time the turbines were erected and the test towers were still in place, we lost five more emus.”
The Van Tassels were told the birds “had died of fear,” they said.
The problems have continued, they say, the agitation from the turbines causing the remaining birds “to run and run night and day, wearing them down to practically nothing.”
In the last five weeks they have lost five young emus.
While they cannot prove that it is due to the turbines, they say, “one thing we do know is that for the 18+ years before the turbines we never had any problems with our birds, no unexplained deaths, no agitation … We had healthy, productive and content emus.”