Once again it's the energy-at-any-cost that is causing the damage. Wind farms and coal-seam gas both put energy before the people that the energy is meant to benefit. In the first case it drives people mad. In the second it poisons their water.
Where's the sense in that?
Future generations will look back with wonder that we were (are) so reluctant to embrace solar.

No, I think it is more bowing to political pressure when the populist science is half baked.

Wind farms, the new smoking, only this time the vice is government backed.

Solar is alive and well, big installations are now on the drawing board. There is always going to be a place for wind turbines. Nuclear has suffered a big swing against any more installations.

I'm a light sleeper, and I rented for some time at a place which was close to a busy road. Despite the noise problems, I did not have to abandon my home or suffer severe sleep deprivation. Earplugs are cheap and readily available at all good pharmacists.

For those who regard such a solution as far too simple and obvious, they could always do what my old man did - he suffers from tinnitus, which earplugs won't help with, so he built himself a white noise generator which apparently helps.

I have tinnitus , but i don't know what a white generator is. People live beside railway tracks. When a mining co was going to set up near me years ago, the EPA put a noise measuring devise in my backyard for 2 weeks, to measure day sound and night sound. The night sound was around 25DB and the day sound was 55 db. A barking dog puts up 85 DB. Nothing ever come of the mining project.
The thing is when you are subject to such low noise levels at night, then something comes along that increases that level, it takes time to get accustomed of the added noise level. The EPA says noise levels of 80 BD is an acceptable noise level.
People that live near wind mills, will before long take no notice of them. And you will get over your sickness, of the mind.