The Trust has called for a genuinely independent study on the impact of industrial scale wind farms on tourism in rural communities and wild land areas, disputing a recent paper which claimed that wind farms don’t impact on tourism. Douglas Wynn, former academic and senior consultant and recently elected John Read more
Author: Dr Stuart Paton is an adviser to the oil and gas industry and former chief executive of Dana Petroleum. Reforming Scotland: This is the latest in a series of individual contributions to the publication, ‘Reforming Scotland’, which aims to set out a possible vision for Scotland’s future which can Read more
Weekly statistics for wind turbine appeal decisions. https://beta.gov.scot/publications/wind-turbine-appeal-decisions-statistics/
A working group of the Institute of Acoustics (IoA) has published a report setting out a new method that it hopes will be adopted by the industry as a way of rating instances of amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise. A 3dBA penalty could be introduced if amplitude modulation (thumping) Read more
Noise Training Workshop for Scottish Government Energy Consents and Deployment Unit Staff Atlantic Quay, Glasgow 19 August 2016 SAS was delighted to be invited to this Workshop which had previously been run in May for Planners. Graham, Marion Lang and Aileen Jackson attended. Dr Bernadette McKell Divisional Director (Acoustics), Jacobs Read more
The Technical Report on Private Water Supplies: Water Risk Assessment, for Sneddon Law Windfarm is now available for viewing at http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=117448 Please find Dr Rachel Connor’s comments attached. SAS comment on PWS risk assessment
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“The Institute of Acoustics has published its preferred method of measuring and rating amplitude modulation (AM) in wind turbine noise. Known as the Reference Method, it is essentially a development of the Hybrid Reconstruction Method that was described in a discussion document published by the Institute’s Amplitude Modulation Working Group Read more