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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 | 2:31 p.m.
CARSON CITY — Building a 75-foot-tall wind turbine adjacent to a quiet subdivision is a nuisance because, in part, it ruins the scenery and creates noise, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.
The court, in a decision by Justice Jim Hardesty, said the turbine would also cause “shadow flicker,” an alternating pattern of light and dark shadows occurring when the blades rotate in the sun.
Rick Sowers wanted the windmill to supply energy to his home in the Washoe Valley. But the Forest Hills subdivision and residents Ann and Karl Hill filed suit and secured an injunction from Washoe District Court Judge Brent Adams.
The court quoted the law that a nuisance “is anything which is injurious to health, or indecent and offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.”
While stopping construction of the turbine, it noted that, “We do not believe that wind turbines are severe interferences in all circumstances...”
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Massachusetts is going through the same thing . Commercial wind turbnes placed hundreds of feet from residential homes !
The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals. It forbids the creation of second-class citizens. Yet, in the mad rush to implement green energy policies, the state of Massachusetts is creating a second class group of citizens through the poor siting of commercial wind turbines.
The Falmouth Select Board has stepped up to the plate for all the citizens of Massachusetts. Falmouth spent almost $400,000.00 on talks between abutters and public officials and twenty six meetings.
The installation of commercial megawatt turbines shows compellingly that the symptoms and illnesses called Wind Turbine Syndrome and Vibro-Acoustic Disease are caused by exposure. This is the low frequency noise from the large megawatt turbines in residential locations.
The state noise regulations were written in the 1970s long before wind turbine installations. The Massachusetts Model Bylaws written in the 1990s by the state of Massachusetts were written for 660 Killowatt turbines. In the last few years the large megawatt turbines have been sited near residential homes.
Health & Windfarms: Experimentation on people Falmouth -Fairhaven Massachusetts http://youtu.be/wh0c36iKfvs