Police warn local traffic road closed after wind turbine blade truck accident 8th December, 2020 By Andrew Thomson, The Standard https://www.standard.net.au/story/7045275/truck-carrying-82m-wind-turbine-blade-goes-off-road/ The rear of the trailer carrying the 82-metre long wind turbine blade has gone off the road surface and become stuck. UPDATED, Tuesday, 8.10am: A truck transporting an 82-metre wind turbine blade has gone … Continue reading Wind Turbine Blade Truck Accident
Month: December 2020
Mt Emerald Wind Farm and Marshall Day Acoustics Face Court
Legal action has been lodged in the Supreme Court of Queensland against the Mt Emerald wind farm and Marshall Day Acoustics. The wind farm noise is claimed to have exceeded noise limits, is causing substantial damage and unreasonable interference to it's neighbour. MDA is claimed to have engaged in deceptive conduct in reports related to … Continue reading Mt Emerald Wind Farm and Marshall Day Acoustics Face Court
Wind Farm Says Sharing Power Lines Sometimes ‘Not Practicable’-2018
24th April, 2018 By Everard Himmelreich, The Standard https://www.standard.net.au/story/5360107/wind-farm-says-sharing-power-lines-is-difficult/ Visual impact: Metal pylons erected to carry transmission lines from the Salt Creek wind farm stand over standard power poles near the Terang terminal station. Calls by the south-west community for wind farm companies to share transmission lines were difficult to accommodate when new south-west wind farms were … Continue reading Wind Farm Says Sharing Power Lines Sometimes ‘Not Practicable’-2018
Willatook Wind Farm-2017
'One approved windfarm with 31 turbines is less than 2km from Hawkesdale’s town centre...'
Wind Farm And Sleep Disruption
"Environmental noises, such as traffic noise, are well known to impact sleep," she says. "Given wind power generation is connected with low frequency noise that can travel long distances and more readily into buildings, it is important to better understand the potential impacts of wind turbine noise on sleep."-Dr Gorica Micic
Electricity Supplies Under Pressure
On December 20 last year, when Melbourne reached 43.5C, a series of wind turbines unexpectedly switched themselves off.- Mr Skinner, AEC.
Subsidies Drain Power From The Electricity Market
'...not one of the 24 gigawatts of wind, grid solar or rooftop solar would have been installed without a subsidy.'-Dr Alan Moran
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