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“In my expert opinion, from my knowledge of sleep physiology and a review of the available research, I have no doubt that wind turbine noise emissions cause sleep disturbance and ill health.”<\/span>
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\nChristopher Hanning, MD<\/span><\/p>\n
“The only mitigation of sleep disturbance from industrial wind turbine noise is a setback of at least 1.5km, and probably greater. This estimate is based on data from present installations, many of which have a much smaller rated capacity than those proposed by Nuon Renewables<\/a> [a wind developer proposing a wind plant in Swinford, UK]”—Christopher Hanning, MD, “Sleep Disturbance and Wind Turbine Noise<\/a><\/em>” (June\u00a014,\u00a02009), p. 27.<\/p>\n
\u00bb<\/span> From Hanning’s report<\/a>:<\/p>\n
Sleep disturbance and impairment of the ability to return to sleep is not trivial, as almost all of us can testify. In the short term, the resulting deprivation of sleep results in daytime fatigue and sleepiness, poor concentration and memory function. Accident risks increase. In the longer term, sleep deprivation is linked to depression, weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. There is a very large body of literature, but please see Meerlo et al., 2008, Harding and Feldman, 2008 and Hart et al., 2008 for recent work on this subject. A more general review can found on Wikipedia: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleep_deprivation<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00bb<\/span> Click here<\/a> to read the entire, revised\u00a0report (August 2009)\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"