The rise of the green agenda may be a little hampered by the current recession but it’s unlikely to disappear. Everyone has jumped on the bandwagon including most firms these days. Debates over environmental issues stretch far and wide, from man’s influence in creating them to the solutions available to us. So what about windfarms? They have popular backing as a concept in the minds of many Brits and the Americans seem keen too. Oh but – nimbyism – lets just say you can rely on our friends across the Atlantic to come up with some novel ways of protecting their back yards.

Overlawyered reports that " some opponents of wind turbine farms in Maine say they’re concerned not just about audible noise but

“low-frequency noise, so soft you can’t hear i t,”

from the installations, which they claim is linked to a wide array of health problems, not to mention

“the strobe effect created by the sun setting behind the spinning blades, which some say can lead to seizures ”.

On an anti-turbine website, a New York doctor describes “acoustic radiation ” as a mix of

“audible sound, infrasound and vibration, in a pulsating character, that appear to trigger serious reported health problems in those families living near wind turbine installations .”

State officials in Maine, on the other hand, would prefer to keep the focus on sound levels loud enough to actually be noticed."

Short of legal arguments? Get creative…