WALES CUMULATIVE IMPACT MAPS
Just to give you a view of industrial wind turbine developments proposed for Wales.
The maps are based on CPRWs map of DNS projects.
Grid squares are 10km x 10km.
Circles are 10 km and represent a conservative range for infrasound propagation, and a very conservative range for seismic impact.
Obviously landscape and geology will influence those although not as much as you might expect. In some areas it will reduce the effects, in others it will magnify them.
Where the circles overlap, the impacts will be greatest.
This is not addressed in planning:
The noise regulations (ETSU-R-97) are limited to the audible spectrum only. (It’s a bit like saying infra red, or X rays do not exist, or cannot harm us because we cannot see them).
There is good scientific evidence now that infrasound harms humans and animals.
WSP’s review for Industrial Wind Farm Noise points out the
shortcomings of regulations and in particular concerning amplitude modulation, and infrasound.
Seismic impact is conveniently scoped out of the Environmental Impact Assessment as is Human Health, let alone Animal Health.
PFAS and BPA emissions are not even mentioned, but you can picture this easily by taking into account the prevailing wind direction within those circles and further afield.
We would not want to live where those circles overlap, nor would we want any unstable ground such as coal tips nearby. This is a concern shared by The Coal Trust HQ emergency department, even if not sufficiently at local level.
As previously explained, we have verified this with a retired UK Geotechnical Engineer who is very concerned, and we have also consulted two international Geology Professors. We will share their findings as soon as we have them.
Meanwhile, some of the science is outlined in this paper:
and here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgghlIh7DO__drUGgd-Hs3rb9QuBlDpc/view?usp=sharing - scroll down for English
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