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Wind farm 'kills Taiwanese goats'
BBC News, Thursday 21 May 2009
A TAIWANESE farmer says more than half of his
herd of goats may have died of exhaustion because
of noise from a wind farm |
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Summary of Recent Research on Adverse Health
Effects of Wind Turbines
Author: Stelling, Keith; and Krogh, Carmen
There is already ample scientific evidence that
low frequency noise is a cause of sleep disturbance
in humans. The evidence also suggests that long
term exposure normally leads to serious health
problems.
Reinforcing this body of knowledge is
the research that has been conducted on animals.
Long term studies by European biologists indicate
that habitat disturbance and abandonment takes
place around wind turbine developments. Further
research on animals indicates that basic survival
functions such as hunting, self protection and
reproduction are interrupted by low frequency
noise exposure.
The only effective mitigation is to adequately
separate wind turbine developments from sensitive
wildlife habitats and human dwellings |
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