Generating News: Beyond the Spin

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  • Although wind may be a renewable resource, wind energy is not "clean", if "clean" means the lack of harmful emissions. Presently there is a plethora of hard scientific evidence to the contrary, clearly showing an association, a relationship between the presence of utility-scale wind turbine sited close to people and negative health effect experienced by a nontrivial percentage of those people.

  • In my professional experience the most prominent symptoms are sleep disturbance, head pressure, posterior head pain, vertigo and balance disorders, cognitive clouding, the feeling of the blade sweep as a thumping pressure in the chest and intermittent heart irregularity. A Key Point is that symptoms are present when exposed to IWTs, and symptoms dissipate and disappear when not exposed to IWTs. There is a straight forward cause and effect connection of IWTs and adverse health effects.

  • 45 minutes - 45 minutes is the total time it took for my husband and me to conclude that the Shirley Wind victims were not lying about their adverse health symptoms.

  • …when we were away we felt better, when we back…we experienced some of the symptoms we were trying to avoid. So now what? We decided it was our home, the first home we had every owned, the first home we had a huge hand in building, the home where we sheltered our children from the outside world, or our health. Our home was now not a place of refuge or relief but of pain. We chose our health. We left our home!

  • The wind industry will argue that there is "no proof" that the ILFN from the turbines is causing the health issues. But, common logic should connect the dots and conclude there is a high probability that this is strong empirical evidence and that precautions are needed.

Voices on the Wind: Turbine Data and Expert Insights

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More Proof Wind Energy Isn’t “Clean” Or “Green." Irish Court Orders Wind Turbines Shut Down Due To Noise Pollution by Robert Bryce

After a 12-year legal battle, a Dublin judge orders a wind company to shutter three turbines and pay nearby property owners $411,000 in damages.

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Court dismisses wind developer suit against Wisconsin towns’ ordinances

Background Marathon Wind Farm sued two towns—Brighton and Eau Pleine—claiming their local wind energy ordinances were too restrictive and therefore unlawful under Wisconsin state law. Specifically, they claimed the towns’ rules went beyond what is allowed under state law and Public Service Commission (PSC) regulations. Marathon Wind Farm asked the court to: Declare the local ordinances void, and Issue a permanent injunction preventing their enforcement. The towns responded with motions to dismiss, arguing the case should be thrown out because . . . Complete story »

‘Sally’s experience is not unusual’ – calls for turbines closest to homes to be decommissioned 

“Huband, who lived with her family in East Burrafirth at the time, described how she started suffering from ear pain, tinnitus, losing balance and the feeling her ears might explode during the summer of last year, within days of the Viking Energy wind farm becoming operational.” AND

Injured by Viking’s subaudible noise pollution 

Westside resident Sally Huband has been forced to sell her house in East Burrafirth to escape subaudible acoustic emissions from the Viking turbines. Here she details her – so far – unsuccessful attempts to get the industry to act on the issue.

Court dismisses wind developer suit against Wisconsin towns’ ordinances

The towns’ ordinances regulating wind energy systems were found to be legal and enforceable. The wind farm’s legal challenge failed because the ordinances did not exceed the limits of local authority under state law or administrative rules.

Health Documents from National Wind Watch

‘Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation by Anne Dumbrille, Robert McMurtry, and Carmen Krogh – ‘Big Noises: Tobacco and Wind’

Author:  Evans, Alun

In the absence of a direct means of assessing causality by experiment, Dumbrille, McMurtry, and Krogh [1] have resorted to the nine criteria devised [2] by the English Statistician, Austin Bradford Hill, to assign causality. They have applied them to the putative adverse health effects associated with wind farm noise and have found all nine to be upheld. Bradford Hill’s outstanding contribution to Public Health, with Richard Doll, was assembling a cohort of 40,000 British Doctors to study the epidemic . . .

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Effects of low-frequency noise from wind turbines on heart rate variability in healthy individuals

Author:  Chiu, Chun-Hsiang; et al.

Abstract: Wind turbines generate low-frequency noise (LFN, 20–200 Hz), which poses health risks to nearby residents. This study aimed to assess heart rate variability (HRV) responses to LFN exposure and to evaluate the LFN exposure (dB, (LAeq) inside households located near wind turbines. Thirty subjects living within a 500 m radius of wind turbines were recruited. The field campaigns for LFN (LAeq) and HRV monitoring were carried out in July and December 2018. A generalized additive mixed model was employed . . .

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Industrial wind turbines and adverse health effects: A cardiologist’s view of the data

Author:  Johnson, Ben

Download original document: “Industrial wind turbines and adverse health effects: A cardiologist’s view of the data” See updated report: A Madison County, Iowa, cardiologist’s investigation and response to industrial wind turbines in the rural residential countryside regarding concerns of adverse health effects and exploration of the relevant accompanying larger issues

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Pregnancy exposure to wind turbine noise and adverse birth outcomes: a nationwide cohort study

Author:  Poulsen, Aslak Harbo; et al.

Highlights We identified all Danes exposed to wind turbine noise (WTN) from 1982 to 2013. We then identified all live born singletons from mothers in this population. We investigated preterm birth, low birth weight and small for gestational age. We found no associations between WTN and the adverse birth outcomes. Few women had high levels of WTN and independent replication is called for. Abstract Noise from wind turbines (WTs) is reported as more annoying than traffic noise at similar levels, . . .

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