Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005. |
Turbine truths
Credit: Murray May, Cook The Canberra Times | April 3, 2013 | www.canberratimes.com.au ~~
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Mark Raymond (Letters, March 28) assures people there are no health risks associated with wind turbines, even in large numbers. This is apparently based on a visit to Denmark. He also says there is no public health debate on turbines in Denmark.
Does this mean that a 2011 Australian Senate inquiry recommendation for epidemiological research on health and wind farms (as a matter of priority) is no longer necessary?
Is Raymond aware of the European Platform Against Windfarms (epaw.org), which now has 589 member organisations from 24 European countries, including Denmark? Is he aware that Professor Henrik Moeller, a highly regarded acoustician from Aalborg University in Denmark, has strongly criticised the Danish government for manipulating data to allow the siting of wind turbines too close to homes? Moeller says the new Danish regulations on noise from wind turbines underestimate the indoor levels of low-frequency noise, and are inadequate to protect the nearest neighbours from damaging low-frequency noise. Such noise is more prominent with the large turbines now being used.
Sleep disruption from wind turbines occurs in Denmark, just as it does in English-speaking countries. Further, because of increasing public resistance, there is a push to locate turbines offshore, rather than onshore.
This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.
The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.
Wind Watch relies entirely on User Funding |
(via Paypal) |
(via Stripe) |
Share: