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    Quattro persone risarcite oltre 300mila euro in totale per danni derivanti da danni ai parchi eolici

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    2. Byrnzillionaire on

      The claims are so ridiculously vague – “Nuisance”, “low mood” and “irritability”.

      I got all that from just reading the article.

    3. Low-Fuel-674 on

      There was no mention of how loud the turbine noise was at their home. They were very specific in re to the distance from the turbine (359m) to the house. Why didn’t they state the decibels that caused the nuisance? Am I missing something?

    5. ScenicRavine on

      We have them just behind our house and the noise is pretty bad in fairness, mostly its a constant low whomp which is bearable, but sometimes there is a horrible loud pitched noise too which is very grating after a short time, we didn’t sit out in the evenings this summer when they were on due to the unpleasant noise, I’m in favor of Renewables, we need them… so I wouldnt be suing over it, but they do pretty much ruin your peace at home.

    6. AluminiumCrackers on

      It seems that the wind company thought that compliance with restrictions in planning permission would absolve them from having to deal with the noise nuisance issue.

    7. micosoft on

      The problem is we had no planning in this country for a long time so we have a plethora of one of housing making it nearly impossible to build a wind farm that isn’t somewhat close to a house. While I can see how wind farms can create a nuisance I’m not sure people should be awarded for their one off house given all the other costs they make for the tax payer. It’s the same as people moving out to the countryside complaining about the smell of manure.

    8. Alastor001 on

      I mean, how is this any different from living in Dublin city center for example? You get even more annoying level of traffic / screaming / sirens etc noise. Yet people don’t sue for that?

    9. Willing-Departure115 on

      I reckon this is roughly where the wind farm in question is located: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/XJmwAPp2C1NWKsLn7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/XJmwAPp2C1NWKsLn7)

      Really highlights a challenge we have with infrastructure development. We’re a super low density country compared to any European peers, but we are so highly dispersed in our housing that you’re basically never more than a few hundred meters from someone no matter where you want to build stuff.

      In this case the two wind turbines are simultaniously in the middle of nowhere and right on top of a handful of people.

    10. hmmm_ on

      Does this open a door for suing based on noise or annoyance? I’m thinking people living near airports, roads, industrial plants, construction sites, Metro North and so on?

    11. joc95 on

      People who complain about noisy windfatms should move their house beside an oil or gas farm. Then we’ll see what they’d really prefere

    13. Max-Battenberg on

      There is a conversation to be had around this. From what I can understand there is an audible noise coming from them. 

      On the one hand, if you have them close by there could be an electrical dividend to you and on the other hand where we have a very rural population that costs more to get services to but pay the same electricity costs to someone in a built up area there is arguably a price to be paid somewhere for that too.

    14. earth-calling-karma on

      Any chance the cowboys have moved on to building tax subsidy generators/windfarms now? I suppose maybe there is.

    15. Hairy-Violinist-3844 on

      I live near some wind turbines, probably just over a km away. Can see them out of the window and hear the whomp-whomp-whomp sound of them turning. I find it comforting to be honest. I’ve always thought of them as beautiful to look at too, and the fact that their producing clean energy, I was probably primed to like them. 

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