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Wind noise and adverse health effects
Author: Reider, Sandy
Public Service Board Hearing, July 29, 2014: Good afternoon. My name is Sandy Reider, I am a primary care physician in Lyndonville, and I have been practicing clinical medicine in Vermont since I received my license in 1971. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not being paid for involvement in this issue, nor did I seek this out; rather, it found me by way of a patient I had known well for several years, and who, in late . . .
More »Harm from wind turbines – What has been known for decades
Author: Krogh, Carmen
University of Waterloo Seminar, May 7, 2014 Definitions 1948: Definition of health Constitution of the World Health Organization: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” Acknowledgement: Annoyance Annoyance is acknowledged to be an adverse health effect. Health . . .
More »Wind Farms: Health Effects
Author: Madigan, John
Tonight I rise to speak on the relationship between a community and their doctors and how that relationship has been bastardised. But first I will give the chamber some background. In January 2012, researchers at the renowned Stanford School of Medicine published a report that found tobacco companies had conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors. The aim was to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might be bad for their health. The campaign . . .
More »Low-Frequency Noise and Health: A Wind Turbine Case (2007–2013)
Author: Alves-Pereira, Mariana; and Castelo Branco, Nuno
My group has been studying low-frequency noise for 30 years. Initially we began with people working in low-frequency noise [environments]. Low-frequency noise is a little bit like light. You know that there are x-rays that you do not see, but it is light. You know that there is ultraviolet that is bad for your skin and you do not see it. If you use dark glasses for x-rays or ultraviolet, it will not protect you. This is similar to noise. . . .
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