Expert panel gives wind a clean bill of health.
This year more than any other in Canadian history citizens banned together to voice their concerns against the wind industry. Coming forward with claims that wind farms placed to close to their residences effected their health, causing insomnia, headaches, dizziness and increased levels of stress. Small grass roots organizations like Wind Concerns Ontario started to pop up all over the country becoming beacons of refuge for those who felt like their liberties and control were being stripped away by large wind companies, backed by heavy subsidies, tax payer money and some would argue governmental green guilt.
An independent expert panel was put together to study the potential health effects that wind turbines cause on near by residence; it would be the most thorough study done to date on the subject. Their evidence so far is clear: there is no direct health effects caused by wind turbines.
But the independent expert panel that prepared the wind-industry study, to be released today, conceded that some people can get stressed out by the “swishing” sound wind turbines often make.
“A small minority of those exposed report annoyance and stress associated with noise perception,” the panel concluded, pointing to similar annoyances that can come from highway or city traffic, local industry and airplanes. “Annoyance is not a disease.”
After the Green Energy Act was implemented earlier this year, new rules were enforced which required all wind turbines to be set back at least 550 metres from the nearest residence to assure that noise levels do not exceed 40 decibels – less than the noise created from light car traffic on residential streets. Read More…















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