Wind turbine syndrome: Farm hosts show no ill effects
Documentary on farmers who host wind turbines shows, writes Professor Simon Chapman, if wind turbine syndrome exists, it can be prevented by a wonder drug called money.
...In a peer-reviewed paper of mine to be published shortly, I conducted an historical audit of all known health and noise complaints made about Australia’s 51 wind farms from 1993 to 2012. Using four sources (wind company records, submissions made to three parliamentary enquiries, local media monitoring records and court affidavits) I calculated the number of complainants around Australia.
More than two-thirds of Australian wind farms including more than half of those with large turbines have never received a single complaint. Two whole states – Western Australia and Tasmania – have seen no complaints.
Of the 129 individuals across Australia who have ever complained, 94 (73%) are residents near just six wind farms which have been targeted by anti wind farm groups.
Almost all (98%) of complainants made their first complaint after 2009 when anti wind farm groups began to add health concerns to their wider opposition. In the preceding years, health or noise complaints were rare despite large and small-turbine wind farms having operated for many years.
In late 2012, anti-wind farm campaigners launched an anonymous website, Stop These Things. The apparently well-funded site specialises in emotive videos of wind farm victims, but in nine months has only run profiles of 18 Anti-wind farm activists have promoted a bizarre and ever-growing number of health problems associated with turbine exposure. My favourite is the alarming problem of disoriented echidnas.
Among Laurie’s more interesting claims is that wind turbines cause lips to vibrate at up 10 kilometres, and that within 1km to 2km of wind turbines, air pressure changes occur “sufficient to knock them off their feet or bring some men to their knees when out working in their paddock” and “have been reported by farmers to perceptibly rock stationary cars”.
Laurie has repeatedly claimed that “a large number” or “over twenty families” and most recently “more than forty” families are wind farm refugees” who have had to abandon their homes. But Laurie has declined requests to make her list public.
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/life/health/wind-turbine-syndrome-farm-hosts-tell-very-diff...
LL , I think you posted that you are closer to Waubra than Laurie ? ...none of the directors of the Waubra Foundation (including chief executive unregistered GP Laurie) live within 125kms of Waubra according to that.
