Posted on November 10, 2014Jane Wilson, President of Wind Concerns Ontario, describes her disappointment with the Health Canada report on the health effects of wind turbines.
Carmen Krogh, BScPharm
Brett Horner, BA CMA
November 10, 2014
On November 6 2014 Health Canada posted on their website “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results”.
We have been contacted by individuals from around the world who have expressed concern over content and the quality of this Health Canada web posting
“Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results” states:
“WTN annoyance was found to be statistically related to several self-reporting health effects including, but not limited to, blood pressure, migraines, tinnitus, dizziness, scores on the PSQI, and perceived stress” as well as related to “measured hair cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure.”
These findings are additional evidence which support the health effects “conclusively demonstrated from exposure to wind turbine noise” identified by Health Canada and disclosed by the Honourable Rona Ambrose in a June 30, 2009 letter.
In the upcoming weeks and months, it is our intention to release a series of commentaries and disclose information on the “Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results” and the Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study.
In the meantime we have compiled the following relevant information to help inform those interested in Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study.
read further here: https://mothersagainstturbines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/industry-led-government-supported_november-10-2014_release-final-1.pdf
This is a DRAFT (and far from exhaustive) review of the information provided by Health Canada (HC) pertaining to the HC Wind Turbine Noise Study and is designed to serve as a starting point for further discussion.
A review of the information provided by Health Canada with regards to the preliminary
results published on the HC Wind Turbine Noise Study requires the consideration of a number of reports / articles / pamphlets. Specifically, the following found on the HC Wind Turbine Noise web-site:
Click to access denise-wolfe-hc-iwt-noise-study-comments-v1-0.pdf
Statement related to Health Canada’s flawed wind turbine and health study summary, Dr. Robert Y. McMurtry
November 9, 2014
On the heels of a media release by the North American Platform Against Wind Power, and on receipt of a sound exploratory synopsis (Denise Wolfe) of gaps and errors in methodology and design in the study/summary of Wind Turbine Noise and Health provided by Health Canada, Dr. Robert
McMurtry offers the following statement:
“I have just had the opportunity to review the Denise Wolfe DOCUMENT, and appreciate its obvious quality, reinforced by knowing something of her background. The paper is a powerful statement that casts serious doubt on the recent Health Canada and CanWEA preliminary announcement, the background paper and related media statements. I am deeply saddened that the Ministry whom I was so proud to work for, appears to have fallen.”
“In addition, ongoing efforts will be made with our international network…
View original post 143 more words
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
North American Platform Against Wind Power
November 9, 2014
A case of widespread consumer fraud and systemic government abetted torture: Health Canada’s study further victimizes wind turbine refugees and cohabitants.
Ontario Anti Wind Groups along with International groups, react strongly with anger to the Health Canada wind turbine noise study, knowing that projects will be exponentially promoted and sanctified worldwide, via this 2 million dollar, taxpayer funded, fraudulent study.
Indeed, hours later, at most a day, thumbing its nose at victims of wind, numbering hundreds with thousands of serious complaints of widespread chronic sleep deprivation and other adverse health effects, and communities with lost or greatly depreciated homes and dead or reduced livestock, Ontario’s Liberals announced approval of a massive turbine array in Niagara, to install the largest turbines ever in Canadian history. NA-PAW notes the similarities to the Tobacco lobby, which utilized medical personnel to ignore…
View original post 1,278 more words
It just gets worse:
[…] Wildlife consultant Jim Wiegand has written several articles that document these horrendous impacts on raptors, the devious methods the wind industry uses to hide the slaughter, and the many ways the FWS and Big Green collude with Big Wind operators to exempt wind turbines from endangered species, migratory bird and other laws that are imposed with iron fists on oil, gas, timber and mining companies. The FWS and other Interior Department agencies are using sage grouse habitats and White Nose Bat Syndrome to block mining, drilling and fracking. But wind turbines get a free pass, a license to kill.
Big Green, Big Wind and Big Government regulators likewise almost never mention the human costs – the sleep deprivation and other health impacts from infrasound noise and constant light flickering effects associated with nearby turbines, as documented by Dr. Sarah Laurie and other researchers.
In…
View original post 223 more words
On Thursday Health Canada released Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study: Summary of Results. Media headlines in reporting on the release were largely along the lines of CBC’s ignorant Wind turbine noise not linked to health problems, Health Canada finds, with some exceptions, including the Toronto Star’s No definitive link between wind turbines and poor health, says Health Canada study, It seems to me the discussion now will be whether it is industrial wind turbines making people unwell, or people like me arguing that’s possible that harms people.
The Star’s introductory paragraphs do, I think, introduce the topic well:
Living near towering wind turbines can be extremely annoying but there is no connection between exposure to the wind turbine noise and health effects, says a new comprehensive Health Canada study.
Noise from wind turbines did not have any measurable effect on illness and chronic disease, stress and quality of sleep, the study found. But the louder the noise from the turbines, the more people got annoyed by different aspects — from the noise to the aircraft warning lights atop the turbines to the way they caused shadows to flicker.
But Health Canada said the study on its own cannot provide definitive answers and more research may be needed. It also pointed out that annoyance isn’t trivial — those who were annoyed were more likely to report other health issues.
From Health Canada’s release:
Annoyance is defined as a long-term response (approximately 12 months) of being “very or extremely annoyed” as determined by means of surveys. Reference to the last year or so is intended to distinguish a long term response from one’s annoyance on any given day. The relationship between noise and community annoyance is stronger than any other self-reported measure, including complaints and reported sleep disturbance.
and…
- WTN [wind turbine noise] annoyance was found to be statistically related to several self-reported health effects including, but not limited to, blood pressure, migraines, tinnitus, dizziness, scores on the PSQI, and perceived stress.
- WTN annoyance was found to be statistically related to measured hair cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) took out a full page ad in the November issue of Downeast Magazine to thank its benefactors. The list includes:
Wind Developers: First Wind, Emera Maine, Patriot Renewables, Brookfield Renewables (NH)
Contractors: Cianbro, Reed & Reed, James Sewell Co., Sargent Corp.
Law Firms: Verrill Dana, Pierce Atwood, Preti Flaherty
Scenic Consultant: Terrence J. DeWan & Associates
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t condemn these companies for donating to TNC and I don’t condemn TNC for accepting their money.
But I do condemn the wind developers for having TNC testify in support of their projects without disclosing that there is a financial relationship between TNC and the developers, their contractors and the law firms retained by the developers.
Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power – Maine
. In Ontario 40 families have abandoned their homes to get away from the effects of wind turbines.”
In what appears to be the first of its kind ruling in the United States, the Board of Health in Brown County, Wisconsin, where Green Bay is located, has declared a local industrial wind plant to be a human health hazard. The specific facility consists of eight 500-foot high, 2.5 megawatt industrial wind turbines.
The board made its finding with a 4-0 vote (three members were not present) at an Oct. 14 meeting after it had wrestled with health complaints about the wind plant for more than four years. Ultimately, the board’s ruling was based on a year-long survey which documented health complaints and demonstrated that infrasound and low-frequency noise emanating from the turbines was detectable inside homes within a 6.2-mile radius of the industrial wind plant.
Jay Tibbetts, a physician and a member of the Brown County Board of Health, said the board based its position that the turbines constitute a health hazard on the weight of evidence.
“I can tell you that we are absolutely not an anti-wind energy board,” Tibbetts said. “We worked on this for four and a half years before making this decision. Three families have moved out. I knew all of them. We also know that this isn’t only happening here. In Ontario 40 families have abandoned their homes to get away from the effects of wind turbines.”
read more: CAPCON, Michigan Capitol Confidential, By JACK SPENCER | Nov. 8, 2014
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 