filed: September 10, 2024 • Ireland
‘The noise from our neighbour’s new wind turbine is making our lives a misery. What can we do?’
Credit: Monday 9 September · independent.ie ~~
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Query: Dear Mary Frances, I live on a small farm that my family have lived in for generations. We’ve always had a close relationship with the neighbours since we are all farmers.
Around a year ago, one of our neighbours decided to put up a wind turbine on his farm. We were all delighted for him. Not only did we not object, we helped him look into setting it up in the hope that we could also do it one day. He got an exemption from the local authorities because it was exactly 20m high and it was not attached to any of his farm buildings.
However, the turbine is only 200m away from our family home, and there is a constant low-level whirring noise when the wind blows in the direction of our house. The first we noticed was the dog, starting to whine before we would hear it. But now we find it really annoying, especially at night time.
We tried to be good neighbours and waited to see if it would get better. Two months in, I sat down with the neighbour over a cup of tea and explained our situation to him in the best way I could.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/09/10/the-noise-from-our-neighbours-new-wind-turbine-is-making-our-lives-a-misery-what-can-we-do/
