Resource Library Category: Health (82 items)
Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Public Health Impacts of Wind Turbines
Author: Minnesota Department of Health
Thorough overview by the Environmental Health Division of the Minnesota Department of Health of noise and flicker problems from industrial wind turbines:
Conclusions
Wind turbines generate a broad spectrum of low-intensity noise. At typical setback distances higher frequencies are attenuated. In addition, walls and windows of homes attenuate high frequencies, but their effect on low frequencies is limited. Low frequency noise is primarily a problem that may affect some people in their homes, especially at night. It is not generally a . . .
Letter to Chatham-Kent re mtg June 15th
Author: Anon.
To: Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Community Development and Planning Services
c/o Elinor Mifflin (elinorm@chatham-kent.ca)
RE: Notice of public meeting to consider proposed zoning by Invenergy Wind Canada ULC to the Raleigh Wind Energy Centre – meeting date June 15, 2009
To Whom It May Concern:
Please be advised that we plan to attend the meeting on the 15th and would like to speak at the meeting. We have great concerns we would like to express regarding the erection of further wind turbines.
THIS IS A REVISION . . .
Wind Turbine Noise – a themed sequence of sonnets
Author: Atkinson-Mair, Gail
The Moles
You call me to the window, not quite sure,
‘I really get the feeling we’ve got fewer moles
– must be the cat.’ An end to an unending war,
you grin and raise your glass. You’re right. The holes
that spotty-dicked the grass and made me think
of crazy golf have by some miracle grown rare. I
frown and look away, then crash the dishes in the sink
and fumble, ill at ease. Alarm bells ring – but why?
There’s something not quite right today –
a smooth . . .
Life with a wind turbine 1300 feet away — the Wirtz family
Author: Better Plan, Wisconsin
Better Plan, Wisconsin presents the following story from a family living in a PSC approved wind farm with a wind turbine less than 1300 feet from their door:
They spoke to us on the evening of May 2, 2009, at their home which is located in Dodge County near the Town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
Ann and Jason Wirtz bought their home on June 1st, 1996. It’s a pretty Wisconsin farmhouse near the Town of Oakfield in Dodge County. It’s the kind of . . .
"The swoosh, swoosh feel along with the pressure makes me feel nauseous" (Oakfield, Wisc.)
Author: Wirtz, Ann
My work day yesterday was from 8:30am-8:00pm. I took a lunch brake at 4:00 to run out to Oakfield to catch some of Megan’s soccer game. I was there for the start of the game and I could not believe how weak she was. She could not break full stride at any point. This, the girl a year ago, who would never slow down. She has lost a lot of weight. It broke my . . .
Wind Turbine Syndrome
Author: Various
As deleted from Wikipedia:
Wind turbine syndrome (WTS) is a cluster of clinical symptoms first formally identified by British physician Amanda Harry, MD, and subsequently given the name Wind Turbine Syndrome and a pathophysiological explanation by New York State behavioral pediatrician Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD.
WTS refers to the discrete constellation of symptoms that some — not all — people experience when living near wind turbines, symptoms which Pierpont and other clinicians maintain are caused chiefly by turbine low-frequency noise and vibration . . .
“I just know it’s not good to live in this house anymore” (Oakfield, Wisc.)
Author: Wirtz, Ann
April 6, 2009
In 1997 my husband and I purchased our current property. It was an old farmhouse in the country. We knew it would be work because the house and yard needed so much. So for more than the next decade we spent all our money improving our property and renovating our home. We buried barn ruins that had laid charred for years. We took down old buildings and fixed the ones we chose to leave. We dismantled a total . . .
Deputation to the Standing Committee on General Government Regarding Bill C-150
Author: McMurtry, Robert
First permit me to express my appreciation to the Committee for permitting me to speak and submit this deputation.
My presentation is in four parts:
Regulations in Canada
Low Frequency Noise and Wind Turbines
Report of Adverse Health Events
A Proposal
Regulations in Canada
Quite simply national regulations do not exist in Canada. According to a November 2008 letter from Morel Oprisan, (Deputy Director S&T, Renewable Energy Technologies, Government of Canada) in an electronic mail to Professor John Harrison (Queens University) he stated:
“As you correctly noted in . . .
Speaking truth to wind power: submission to legislative committee on bill 150
Author: Trebilcock, Michael
The case against industrial wind turbines:
1) Industrial Wind Turbines Have Minimal Impact on Carbon Emissions
2) Industrial Wind Turbines Are Uneconomic
3) Industrial Wind Turbines Cause Insufficiently Researched Health Effects
4) Industrial Wind Turbines Have Adverse Effects on Adjacent Property Values
‘Even if one thinks (contrary to my views), that wind turbines are a good idea
environmentally and economically, there is a simple solution to the impact on rural residents, who are being conscripted to bear most of the burden of solving a problem they . . .
Critique of wind law recently enacted by Town of Holland, Erie County, N.Y.
Author: Giacolone, Arthur
There are two general observations I would like to share before addressing specific provisions in the local law. It appears that the Holland town board adopted its WECS law without first preparing a draft Environmental Impact Statement [EIS] and using the procedures mandated by the State Environmental Quality Review Act [SEQRA] to fully and objectively assess areas of environmental concern, potential mitigation measures, and alternatives to allowing industrial-scale wind farms. Common sense alone dictates that a town board . . .
