Re:There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One ...
by bparsons on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:35PM
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From what I understand, it is mostly an issue of jurisdiction. The factory is in the US, and the problem impacts people across the river in Canada.
Cross border noise pollution was likely never envisioned in any international treaties, so there is no obvious legal means to resolve the problem.
Re:There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One ...
by Cookiesaurusbex on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:19PM
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Yes there is. At least with frequency assignment. There are very strict policies that any frequency usage within 50 miles of an international border must be approved by the appropriate authority on both sides. The rules may not apply to non-communication based sound (which is an obvious failure), but it's not like there is no framework for this kind of thing, it just doesn't extend far enough.
"Since reports of it surfaced in 2011, the hum has been studied by the Canadian government, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor."
Those are all the links in the article, the last one (https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi8ek3hqiof81ca/UW%20Study%20Repor...) gives us
"For the duration of the project, the Hum manifested on only a handful of days, which made the identification of the source difficult. Good data representative of the Hum was measured using the stationed noise monitors. Conclusive evidence of the source was not achieved using the NSI system since the Hum was not present on those days that this equipment was deployed on the river. The conclusion of the research is that the Windsor Hum does exist and has both qualitative and quantitative characteristics that surmise the likely source of the Hum to be from the blast furnace operations on Zug Island."
So the main problem of the article is that it tries to make a mystery from something reasonably good investigated.