{"id":6477,"date":"2010-02-03T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:53:10","slug":"more-than-750-noise-complaints-loud-bangs-sleep-disturbance-low-pitched-hum-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/more-than-750-noise-complaints-loud-bangs-sleep-disturbance-low-pitched-hum-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 750 noise complaints: &quot;loud bangs, sleep disturbance, low-pitched hum&quot; (New Zealand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Thoreau-disobey-396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6358\" title=\"Henry David Thoreau\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Thoreau-disobey-396.jpg\" alt=\"Henry David Thoreau\" width=\"396\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Thoreau-disobey-396.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Thoreau-disobey-396-161x300.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">This image was not part of the original article&#8212;Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8212;<a title=\"website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/stories\/2010\/02\/03\/1247f1778c35\" target=\"_blank\">Radio New Zealand News<\/a>\u00a0(2\/3\/10)<\/p>\n<p>Wellington City Council has asked the company behind a new wind farm at Makara to report on noise issues after receiving more than 750 complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian Energy\u2019s Project West Wind, which opened in April last year, has 62 turbines in the area around the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints lodged by residents with the council include loud bangs and disturbance of sleep caused by a low-pitched hum.<\/p>\n<p>The council says it has no evidence Meridian is breaching its resource consents, but is seeking to have the noise reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian Energy says it is confident it can reduce the noise problems with the help of the turbine manufacturers, Siemens.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This image was not part of the original article&#8212;Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}