Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
There is a wind turbine in the garden of the house next door to us on Islay.
We never received neighbour notification about the planning application for this wind turbine as the clowns in the Argyll and Bute Council planning department had used an out of date Google map.
Our house did not exist on their map.
When it was windy weather the noise from the spinning blades were very noisy and sounded like a helicopter overhead.
People living the house on the other side who were much closer to the offending wind turbine complained to the Argyll and Bute Council Environmental Health.
After measurements were taken over a period of time the owner of the wind turbine was instructed to switch off his 2.5kw Provan wind turbine during windy weather.
That was no use as the rope to switch off during windy weather had broken and Provan had one bust.
The only other alternative was to move the wind turbine to the furthest away part of his very large garden which cost my neighbour thousands of pounds as it had to be sunk in concrete or it would have to be permanently switched off.
I was delighted when my next door neighbour had to move his wind turbine.
Incidentally, standing directly underneath a wind turbine you do not hear the noise from the spinning wind turbine blades.
I seem to remember reading when it was announced that the Michelin factory was closing down that Michelin were keeping the income from the feed in tariff from their wind turbines which incidentally move position throughout the day to avoid flicker from the sun shining through the spinning blades.
This post sums this clown up, a nasty bitter sad man.