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C/E/786. The environmental impacts of the wind turbine on Cumbrae Island

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1700
DATE:
2011
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19.99 GBP

This paper performs an environmental impact risk assessment of a wind turbine on Cumbrae Island. The paper aims to examine the impact that it has on the ecology and habitation of the island, and begins by outlining the problems that wind turbine cause. Different noise and health impacts they cause are detailed, and the affects they have on military communications and equipments are assessed. The impact that it has on the lives and habitats of local animals are analysed, and the paper concludes with a classification and risk table.

 

KEYWORDS: environmental impact risk assessment, Cumbrae Island, ecology, wind turbine, health impacts, noise impacts, military communications, military equipment, local habitats,

 
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