He’s disturbing MySpace! The former co-president of the social media site MySpace has sued his venture capitalist neighbor for $3 million, charging that the moneyman is making “excessive, unreasonable and intrusive noise” in their fancy Tribeca condo building. Jason Hirschhorn says in his suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that Robbert Vorhoff and his wife, [...]
Local politicians have expressed concerns over an apparent conflict of interest in Fingal County Council being appointed the independent Airport Noise Regulator. It was announced last week that the local authority had been appointed the new independent Airport Noise Regulator for Dublin Airport - despite the hub being one of its biggest commercial rate-payers. The announcement came [...]
John Manning February 10 2018 12:00 AM Fingal County Council is to become the noise regulator for Dublin Airport and could have the power to overturn controversial planning conditions attached to the airport's new runway which restrict night-time flying. Residents surrounding the airport are strongly in favour of keeping those conditions but the daa [...]
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A massive shift in innovation, consumer behaviour and the take up of more ambitious green technologies to power aircraft and sea-faring cargo ships will be crucial to reducing their long-term carbon footprint. A European Environment Agency (EEA) report says incremental measures such as improving fuel efficiency to cut emissions will not be enough for the [...]
Dont forget to Tune-In to Eco Eye on RTÉ One at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. Duncan Stewart and Dr Lara Dungan delve into the effects of noise pollution on our physical and mental well-being, as well as the natural world. Most of us don't realise that noise is the second biggest environmental [...]
noise from aircraft The Transport Minister has appointed Fingal County Council as the new independent Airport Noise Regulator for Dublin Airport. It's first job is to carry out a noise assessment, balancing the needs of local residents and the "broader national interests". Minister Ross says he will be publishing a Bill later in [...]
It always makes sense to ensure that that your instrument is truly a Class 1 instrument. If it is a Class 1 instrument, then it should be listed below: https://www.ptb.de/cms/fileadmin/internet/fachabteilungen/abteilung_1/1.6_schall/1.63/schallpegelmesser.pdf
Parts of London Underground are "loud enough to damage people's hearing", the BBC has been told. An academic says the Victoria Line service is on average the loudest while other noisy sections of the Tube equate to "being at a rock concert". Parts of the Northern and Jubilee lines are so loud they would require [...]
The Minister for Transport, Shane Ross, will appoint Fingal County Council to regulate noise at Dublin Airport in a move needed to advance work on a new runway. The airport’s owner, State company DAA, wants to build a new runway there at a likely cost of €320 million, and sees the appointment of a noise regulator as central to [...]