Mr. Lussier, that's a brilliant question. This is one of the cumulative effects that is becoming so serious in Alberta because it seems that humanity is not being considered.
One of my neighbours runs a cattle ranch. A well was first put right beside the house--a few hundred metres--and within a short time a compressor came. The farmer and I noticed that in the different environmental conditions, when the temperatures fluctuate...because noise normally goes up...when it's colder it rolls down. We live in a lot of coulee land, like the Gatineau Hills, beautiful rolling hills. Every time the compressor noise would go up, the cattle would raise.... So this could have an implication financially to the farmer. It could cause them stress. The World Health Organization has studied noise. And the compressors can be very close to homes.
In my community, there are two compressors about 900 metres away. I lived in two coulees where the noise bounced off and magnified the noise.
In the early planning stages industry is supposed to consider communities, where you have, like mine, a historic resource. Industry should not interfere with the historic resource of a small tourist town. In our community this planning was not done. The compressors were just put in. They could have been moved farther away, especially from the coulee walls.