Two recent studies confirm that complaints about wind turbines
are much more frequent in areas where the turbines have not been
built, than they are near operating wind farms. Wind farms are
particularly accepted in Alberta, which has had large wind farms
for 20 years. The Pembina Institute blog comments:
"No other province in Canada has a longer history with wind
energy than Alberta, which has 20 years of experience with
utility-scale wind farms...."
According to Pembina, Alberta's electrical regulator, the
Alberta Utilities Commission, has received NO complaints about
large operating wind farms:
"...no complaints about utility-scale wind energy have been
brought to the AUC — not a single one. There were 31,000
contacts from the public to the AUC about a variety of issues in
their 13-year-old database, but none of them were complaints about
wind energy. In fact of the 170 contacts (calls, emails, letters)
that the AUC received that did reference wind energy,
