As part of the July 21st and 22nd public hearing on Goodhue Wind's draft site permit, Goodhue Wind's development team provided a large amount of documentation supporting our project.
We would like to ensure the community has open access to this information, so therefore we are providing a listing of the pertinent documents distributed.
These documents include our pre-filed comments, maps of our preliminary turbine layout and constraints analysis, visual simulations of our proposed wind farm, and appendices that included Goodhue Wind's shadow flicker report and a report by Mark Roberts, M.D. Ph.D. on the Evaluation of the Scientific Literature on the Health Effects Associated with Wind Turbines and Low Frequency Sound.
Mark Roberts, M.D., Ph.D. is a Principal Scientist and Director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health in the Chicago office of Exponent, a scientific research and consulting company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. In his scientific research, Roberts found that the sound patterns generated by wind turbines today do not cause any disease or health condition.
What they can cause however, is annoyance. The term “annoyance” is broad in definition and is imprecise. There is no indication that the “annoyance” due to wind turbines is any different from the “annoyances” that we each experience on a daily basis. In fact, annoyances are highly subject to bias; for example, one's beliefs, feelings opinion or judgments on/or about an issue can strongly influence the level of annoyance experienced. This therefore, makes the issue difficult to measure in a scientific manner.
Documentation available at the draft permit hearing:
- AWA-Goodhue's Pre-Filed Hearing Comments
- AWA-Goodhue's Preliminary Turbine Layouts, maps, visual simulations and constraints analysis
- Exponent Report on the Health Effects Associated with Wind Turbines, by Mark Roberts, M.D., Ph.D.
- AWA-Goodhue's Shadow Flicker Report
- Diagram of the Office of Energy Security's Large Wind Energy Conversion System Permitting Process
