{"id":4040,"date":"2015-04-12T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:01:32","slug":"what-wind-turbine-noise-does-and-doesnt-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/what-wind-turbine-noise-does-and-doesnt-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What wind turbine noise does and doesn\u2019t do<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While wind turbine noise is annoying and can disturb some people\u2019s sleep, a new Council of Canadian Academies\u2019 report requested by Health Canada concludes that there is no evidence yet for further health effects.<\/p>\n<p>The report found no evidence linking wind turbines to hearing loss and inadequate evidence for other health effects such as fatigue, vertigo, nausea or cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also note that noise impact assessment before and after the installation of wind turbines can help foster social acceptance of such a wind energy project. The full report can be found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceadvice.ca\/uploads\/eng\/assessments%20and%20publications%20and%20news%20releases\/wind-turbine-noise\/WindTurbineNoiseFullReportEn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceadvice.ca\/en\/assessments\/completed\/wind-turbine-noise.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by the\u00a0<em>Council of Canadian Academies\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April\u00a09<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While wind turbine noise is annoying and can disturb some people\u2019s sleep, a new Council of Canadian Academies\u2019 report requested by Health Canada concludes that there is no evidence yet for further health effects. The report found no evidence linking wind turbines to hearing loss and inadequate evidence for other health effects such as fatigue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2414,476,2413],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alternative-energy","tag-public-health","tag-wind-turbines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}