{"id":4613,"date":"2011-08-16T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T14:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2011-08-19T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:52:23","slug":"canadian-official-says-wind-turbines-too-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/16\/canadian-official-says-wind-turbines-too-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian official says wind turbines too loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A memo written last year by a senior environmental official with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment says that wind turbines are permitted to produce too much noise.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Wind+turbines+noisy+official\/5259027\/story.html#ixzz1VCbSXJOj\">Ottawa Citizen reports<\/a> that an anti-wind group got a copy of the memo by filing a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario regulations permit wind turbines to produce 40 decibels.\u00a0 The memo\u00a0 recommends a sharp reduction in allowable  levels, in the range of 30 to 32 decibels.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Wind+turbines+noisy+official\/5259027\/story.html#ixzz1VCbSXJOj\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memo written last year by a senior environmental official with the Ontario Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}