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Alerts and Events: Health
These postings are provided to help publicize and provide examples of the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
N.I.M.B.Y. Next It Might Be You!!!!!
TOO CLOSE: The Victims’ Stories
“TOO CLOSE: The Victims’ Stories”: documentary featuring the many moving stories of those living and suffering in the shadows of the Fairhaven Wind Turbines. Click here to download MP4 file (267 MB).
Do These Statements Sound Like They’re Coming from Nimby’s?
“I have had to permanently move out of my home because of this problem… Since I have moved to another location I have no longer had any health problems related to the noise from the wind turbines … All of the parties involved in creating this problem have been notified about it … and absolutely nothing has been done about it.” “We are left with a basic existence – loss of family – you know you are worth absolutely nothing” “We keep . . .
“Ontario’s Future is in Ashes” PROTEST AT Simcoe Park, Convention Center, 11:30am, April 3rd, 2013
For the SECOND year in a row, people from around the province will arrive in Toronto on Wed., April 3rd to protest at Simcoe Park opposite the Toronto Convention Centre on Front St. After rallying, we will march to raise awareness of the issue for our urban neighbours! Buses will be rolling in at 11:30 from across the province to demand an end to the threat from industrial wind turbines. WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY! People in Ontario have had . . .
Australia, Health, Law, Newsletters, Noise, Property values •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
Stockyardhill Industrial Wind Development Update
Origin Energy has increased the turbine size by 75% without any community consultation and no new background noise monitoring or modeling being undertaken. The original permit approval for the turbine size was 2MW, now Origin is installing 3-3.5MW turbines – currently the biggest in the world. Neither the State or Federal Government, nor the Pyrenees Shire have insisted on a new Noise Impact Assessment to take into account the increase in size which will lead to more infrasound, noise and . . .
Australia, Health, Newsletters, Noise •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
What we know already but the Wind industry are trying to hide
We know wind turbines generate audible, low frequency and infrasound noise and vibration. This has been measured inside and outside of sufferers’ homes. We know health problems (totally new, or old afflictions aggravated) start to appear around wind projects sited in most rural settings with turbines of 0.6MW or larger, co-incident with the start up of operations. We know that the health problems continue to emerge in more people and intensify as time exposure increases. We know that increasing turbine . . .
Australia, Health, Newsletters, Noise •
Source: Stockyardhill Community Guardians
Recent developments on wind turbine noise and health
Our understanding of the clinical patterns of illness and the acoustics of wind turbine noise has increased significantly over the last year. We now understand that much of the pathology being reported by residents is related to chronic sleep deprivation and chronic physiological stress, in addition to the vestibular disorder symptoms which have been called “wind turbine syndrome” and include nausea, vertigo, balance disorders, ear pressure, and headaches. Recent work by Professor Con Doolan at Waterloo wind development in South . . .
