Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Expert warns of turbines’ effect on ‘soundscape’

By MATT MCALLISTER

JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS
HAMMOND — A sound expert told the Wind Advisory Committee that Hammond’s “rural soundscape” will be changed with the construction of wind turbines and that it would be foolish to take any wind developer’s sound level plan as gospel.

Clifford P. Schneider, Cape Vincent, who retired from the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Fish and Wildlife Division, told the committee that he became interested in measuring wind turbine sound in 2006, after he was appointed to Cape Vincent’s Town Council.

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