Wind Power News: AMA
Also see:
Geoffrey Waite: “Letter to the AMA re Its Recent Paper Concerning Wind Turbines”
Sarah Laurie: “Open Letter to AMA on Position Statement: Wind Farms & Health 2014”
Carmen Krogh: “Adverse Health Effects and Industrial Wind Energy Facilities”
Bruce Rapley: “Letter to AMA: Audibility and Effects of Infrasound”
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Concerning: AMA Position Statement – Wind Farms and Health 2014
Dr. Steve Hambleton President – Australian Medical Association president@ama.com.au Professor Geoffrey Dobb Vice President – Australian Medical Association vicepresident@ama.com.au Dear Dr. Hambleton and Professor Dobb: Following my review of the AMA Position Statement on Wind Farms and Health 2014, as well as my review of the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Draft Information Paper: Evidence on Wind Farms and Human Health, and its source document, the University of Adelaide Systematic Review of the Human Health Effects of Wind, . . . Complete story »
Re AMA Position Statement: Wind Farms and Health
TO: Dr Hambleton, President AMA Professor Dobb, Vice President AMA Federal & State AMA Councillors AMA Members 1. I am a Canadian citizen, formerly a dean of medicine, assistant deputy minister of health federally and a practising orthopaedist. I am a founding member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded Evidence Network. 2. I have engaged with over 100 exposed individuals residing near industrial wind developments in the province of Ontario. These cases are documented [1]. 3. I have . . . Complete story »
On the harmful AMA statement on wind farms
Dr Steve Hambleton, President, AMA Dear sir, I write with regards your recent press release on wind turbines. As a practicing physician with 36 years’ experience in fields as diverse as rehabilitation, emergency medicine and forensic medicine. Previously a senior lecturer at both the University of South Australia and the Adelaide University lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In particular I lectured to the postgraduate diploma of Occupational and Environmental Health, and to candidates for the College of Occupational . . . Complete story »
Open letter to AMA
I am responding to the ill informed rubbish concerning health effects from wind turbines. Sarah Laurie is one of the few medically trained doctors worldwide who are prepared to abide by their Hippocratic Oath [to] “first do no harm”. I live at Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, where 80% of my neighbours have been forced or chosen to leave their homes. Sarah Laurie is unfairly blamed for scaremongering health problems. How is this possible when in 2008 we officially complained at a . . . Complete story »
Intentional bias behind AMA position statement?
Dear Dr. Hambleton, As a rural primary care physician (graduate of Harvard Medical School in 1971) in northern Vermont, USA, I have observed first hand the adverse health effects experienced by individuals living too close to the two large wind projects that have been brought online in the area over the past few years. In my testimony (see attached below) last year before the Vermont Senate Health Care Committee (as well as testimony before the Senate Natural Resources Committee and . . . Complete story »
Open letter to the AMA – Mar ’14
The Australian Medical Association current statement on wind farms and health neither recognises nor supports people suffering exposure to industrial wind turbines. The AMA’s 27,000 Doctor Membership and general public have been delivered a harmful lack of knowledge, dosed with biased misinformation about wind farms and health. Refusal to acknowledge health and noise problems experienced near wind farms and promoting this commercial industry, neglects not only ethical duty; but directly contributes to creating barriers preventing best medical care for those . . . Complete story »
Dear Dr. Steve Hambleton, Prof. Geoffrey Dobb and all members of the AMA
To release such an irresponsible statement such as the statement released by our own AMA recently, I feel shows incompetence, ignorance and lack of intellectual willingness to decipher fact from fiction. The AMA statement says there are no health effects from low frequency and infrasound from wind farms. How does the AMA know this? Where is the AMA’s research? Who carried out the AMA’s independent, full spectrum noise testing? Who took part in AMA’s multidisciplinary research? Who and how many . . . Complete story »
Letter to AMA (Australia)
I am a practicing physician, member of the Brown County Board of Health and Medical Adviser to the Brown County Health Department and am appalled by the misguided position of the AMA Australia on their position on the effects of ILFN on human health. Over the past four years the Board has studied the deleterious effects of IWT’s on human health. We have the Shirley Wind Farm in out county. It consists of eight 500′ 2.5 megawatt IWT’s. The effects . . . Complete story »
