USA In a 20-minute video of testimony by a man named Cary Shineldecker. The Shineldecker home, in Michigan, is surrounded by industrial wind turbines (IWT’s). In the video, Mr. Shineldecker (an engineer) painstakingly and courteously explains to the wind developer, an outfit named Consumers Energy, how it systematically violated and ultimately pulverized his family’s home and life. Australia For the past […]
Ark Hill wind turbines (8 x 80m Enercon E48 turbines) – One Year On 5 Mar 2013 – 4 April 2014 I live at Arniefoul which is 5km East of the Ark Hill wind turbines and 1.6km West of the proposed Govals wind turbines (6 x 87m turbines). The prevailing wind is from the West. […]
REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES FROM LIVING WITH INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES David Baldwin, Near Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland 31st March 2014 We live in the shadow of Hadyard Hill wind power plant in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Ever since it went into operation we have been plagued by the noise emitted from it. The noise varies with wind […]
The UK’s National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) is in breach of the Åarhus Convention Åarhus Implementation Guide Pat SWORDS from Ireland and Christine Metcalfe from Argyle have both taken complaints about the legality of the Renewable Energy programmes to the United Nations Compliance Committee. Their complaints have been ratified. ACCC/C/2012/68 and ACCC/C/2010/54. Both rulings […]
5th December 2013 Growing an informed Scotland Presentation by Christine Metcalfe (to be delivered to HOLYROOD’S 11th.ANNUAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION & EIA Conference) Re. The Ratified Aarhus Compliance Committee’s decision affecting the: […]
The German authorities are now clear in that there is a very real issue with low frequency sound and recognise that they both need to update their regulations and complete more research. http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/378/publikationen /texte_40_2014_machbarkeitsstudie_zu_wirkungen_von_infraschall.pdf Abstract This feasibility study evaluated the state of knowledge about the effects of infrasound on human beings, the identification of infrasound […]
The Principle of Proportionality ‘The extent of the action must be in keeping with the aim pursued’. There has to be access to the ‘reasons and considerations of the decision’, such that in the Article 3 step the environmental issues are independently weighed up and concluded on. This then leads on to the broader issue […]
In order to properly identify possible deficits of the EIA Directive, one has to take into account the Case Law of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC). The case law of the ACCC has the same legal status in the EU legal order as the Convention itself and thus must be observed when implementing the […]
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