Wednesday, April 29, 2009

TALK BACK: Wind Studies Disputing Health Woes Are Fictional

A reader in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, responds to Christine Buurma's column "RENEWED ENERGY: Noise, Shadows Raise Hurdles For Wind Farms":

I note with some interest the comment stating that "wind-energy advocates point to peer-reviewed studies in Canada and the U.K. that dispute any impact on human health from wind-turbine noise or vibrations," and I wonder if you would reproduce absolutely anything I told you, without checking for accuracy.

There are no such studies done in Canada showing these preposterous results. Indeed, I doubt very much that such studies exist in the U.K. either. The quoting of mysterious studies from "far-off" lands is a rather transparent and juvenile tactic to mislead, something the Industrial Wind Industry relies on routinely.

However, I find it astonishing that a credible news organization such as yours would be co-opted into repeating such deception with no caveat or qualification.

You can always tell when Industrial Wind is starting to spin its tales, hurling the words "peer review" around. There are many credible, carefully executed, scientific studies around the world showing a growing health disaster resulting from improperly sited industrial wind turbines.

More to the point, there is a rapidly increasing body of victims in desperate need of help. They do not need to be "peer-reviewed" to know that they are sick and neither does a medical community that is now awakening to this serious dilemma.

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