Fears over the health of his pregnant partner and unborn child is forcing a man to demand a wind turbine standing a stone’s throw from his family’s home is removed.

Andrew Randall lives in King’s Dyke, Whittlesey, with his pregnant partner Rachel Barford and one-year-old daughter Aimee, just 100 yards from the towering machine.

What is it about The Great Cransley Wind Farm that we should be worried about ?
 
Clearly alternative energy sources need to be considered: electricity generation using wind turbines may well be an important part of this, but there are still considerations over their efficiency. Case histories from areas around the country and international research from eminent sources indicate that the low frequency air pressure changes and resulting sound, called vibroacoustic effects, can cause significant detrimental health problems.
The range of symptoms includes headaches, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, stress, vertigo and ringing …

The reason why the United Kingdom has an inadequate health and safety standard for wind farms, which has resulted in people being made ill and even forced to abandon their homes because of noise, is now clear.
Staff from power firms have been working in Government departments, advising them on matters such as appropriate noise levels and the departments have accepted their advice (The Journal, August 28).
The result is ETSU-R-97, a document planners and the industry are obligated to follow. It allows residents of houses to be constantly subjected to in …

A study was conducted on 39 people living between 984 & 6562 ft from the nearest turbine of a wind farm, all of whom were suffering from the consequences of wind turbine noise from several different wind farms in the UK. Also, rec’d was correspondence from people living near wind farms in New Zealand and Australia, along with other evidence of people being similarly affected in France, Germany, Netherlands and the USA.  What this shows is there are many people suffering from the noise of wind turbines, and this is …