Carmen Krogh & Brett Horner Submissions
Submission July 30, 2012
Open letter_Preliminary Submission Health Canada health study August 5, 2012
Draft proposal_dose response wind turbines_May4 2012
NHMRC open letter July 31 2012
Letter – WCO to MOE – 12-01-03 – FINAL
APPEC_-_Letter_to_WPD_re_White_Pines_Project_-_11-11-08[1]
WCO – Letter to Ministers – REVISED – 11 11 23
Summary_peer reviewed references_March_2012
Health Canada is working with Statistics Canada and other external experts possessing expertise in areas including noise, health assessment, clinical medicine and epidemiology, to design a research study that will explore the relationship between wind turbine noise and the extent of health effects reported by, and objectively measured in, those living near wind power developments. The design methodology will be peer-reviewed by the World Health Organization as well as multidisciplinary experts in conference settings.
The research design for this Health Canada study is being posted for a 30-day comment period to allow public review and input. Feedback obtained through the consultation, as well as the responses provided by Health Canada officials, will be compiled and posted on the Department’s website in alignment with transparent business practices.
This study will contribute to an area of ongoing global research. Currently, there is insufficient evidence to conclude whether or not there is a relationship between exposure to the noise from wind turbines and adverse human health effects, although community annoyance and other concerns have been reported to Health Canada and in the scientific literature.
Health Canada’s approach will support decision makers by strengthening the evidence base of peer-reviewed scientific research that ultimately supports decisions, advice and policies regarding wind power development proposals, installations and operations in Canada.
Specific details related to the study locations, timing and survey components will be made available on the Health Canada website upon completion of the research in order to protect the integrity of the study. Premature disclosure may lead to bias in the research setting. All findings, as well as details of the methodology, will be released and published on the Health Canada website upon completion of the study. Results will also be published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Further information, including the names of members of the research design committee overseeing the study, can be found below under Additional Information.
Health Canada looks forward to providing additional details as they become available.
Comments:
This draft Guidance Document is open for comment starting July 10, 2012 until August 08, 2012.
Please provide your comments on Health Canada’s Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study Design by email or fax to:
David S. Michaud, PhD
Principal Investigator
Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau
Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch
Health Canada
Email: wind.turbine.health.study@hc-sc.gc.ca
Fax: 613-941-1734
Additional Information:
Hope Health Canada conducts a comprehensive review! Respected neuroscientist Michael Merzenich just discovered that neural connections for hearing may be affected by PULSED 65db decibel sound: “Even moderate noise may harm hearing: chronic, low-level sound exposure causes deficits in rats” by Rebecca Cheung June 16th, 2012; Vol.181 #12 (p. 12) http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/340704/title/Even_moderate_noise_may_harm_hearing .
What else don’t we yet understand about the effects of sound?
I sincerly hope this most important study includes all persons. I certainly hope they make it manditory to lift any and all GAG orders from all surronding windfarms. As you know many farmers or homes may be signed lease holders even without a turbine on their property, and may have health issues as well, but due to gag orders may not be able speak against these companies. The health study must lift these taped mouths in order to get proper data! 30 days is not nearly enough time!
Why would the wind companies offer ‘a piece of the pie’ to landowners who don’t get a wind turbine on their property to avoid ‘wind turbine envy’? To legally stop them from talking? I hope that Health Canada has the foresight and power to lift the gag orders. It will all depend on who they are working for, us or the wind indusrty.
They sign anyone up so they can
Do whatever they want with your
Properties, they can put access roads
Transmission line, towers, but more
Importantly when your signed they
Dont have to keep 550m from your home
It can be at your back door. And its a plus
For them as your also Gagged from
Any effects from their projects. Thats just
The tip of why theyll gladly sign anyone
Up. I just came from a hellish meeting
And after finding out one neighbor sold his
Farm due to hes going to be surrounded,
The snakes had eyebrows lifted and will
Be likely sitting in the driveway tomorrow,
hoping to Sign the new owners! Never mind the fact That they just ruined a families life.
Their all sneaky buggers!
Perhaps you can also record in writing where this meeting was, the time ,date and who was present. Date and sign what you record but no need to reveal this to others at the present time.
As the M’Guinty government is unwilling to put a moratorium on wind turbine farms until Health Canada and Statistics Canada complete a study to evaluate the relationship between wind turbine noise and potenial health effects, we urge everyone to phone their Federal MPand ask that a moratorium on wind turbines be implemented across Canada until the study is completed. Why is it that the Ontario liberal government so quickly imposed a moratorium on all off shore wind farms this past February until more scientific research is completed and yet are so reluctant to impose a moratorium on all on shore wind projects?
Remember: there are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going!
Energy along with Health issues fall squrely within provincial jurisdiction. Federal government cannot order Ont to stop building IWT anymore than it can oder Quebec to
change its hydro development policies. This is an Ont issue, solvable only by ending the life of the McGuinty regime.
Don’t forget about those currently living the hell caused by wind turbines which are in operation. These must be shut down until proper studies are complete. Some people will not survive another two years; and then, how many more until it is un through the courts?
We need to think about others as well as ourselves.
SHUT ALL TURBINES DOWN IMMEDIATELY
There are studies, scientific peer reviewed studies indicating IWTs affect health negatively. The government must stop turning a blind eye to the facts.
LFN KILLS.
This is criminal.
While I want to see every one of them gone, you can’t complete a proper study by shutting them down.
I am a human being, not a guinea pig.
You cannot use people as lab rats!
CBC speaking with the Director of the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy:
CBC: “Are there studies to prove there is not a link between adverse health effects and IWT’S?”
Director: “All we can do is to try to rule out a direct cause-effect relationship…”
C’mon government and windies…let’s take it to the courts, toe to toe. The day will come.
Can you provide the CBC link?
CBC | Ottawa, July 11,2012 Ontario Today with Hallie Cotnam
“Federal governmnet to study health effects of wind turbines”
http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/index.html
Should be captured and kept.
Exciting!
Welcome to Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy (QIEEP)
…a crossroads for research
http://www.queensu.ca/qieep/index.html
International Energy Agency/IEA, Scroll down to Task 39
Subtask Leader, Dr. Warren Mabee
http://www.ieabioenergy.com/DirTaskLead.aspx
QIEEP
Tom Carpenter, Co-Chair of the Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum, a Committee of the Kingston City Council.
http://www.queensu.ca/qieep/people/carpentert.html
Bed Bug Moment!
………..Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum, a Committee of the Kingston City Council.
A committee OF council?
All it took was a By-Law!
I almost forgot – ‘sustainable development’
‘Menacing’ Citizens can comment – when there’s a bump in the road.
Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum/KEAF
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/cityhall/committees/keaf
CBC Radio Dave Seglins conducted the interview. Ontario Today aired July 11.
Now this is an example of critical and independent thinking? Who is this Director anyway?
The CBC phone in had the usual vacuous comments from some urban callers, no health problems in Europe, coal is killing people, we must use an alternative to nuclear etc etc. All these arguments have been countered many times. Still it is hard to believe someone like “Robert” who wants to get rid of coal, gas, nuclear, build a million wind turbines.. The graph on the right from IESO currently shows all 1200 Ont turbines churning out :105MW or .5% of demand. One wonders what planet people like Robert dwell on to think that wind could miraculosly supply significant amounts of efficient electricity..
The issues here are any statements made by the Director of QIEEP.
Comment period has been extended until Sept. 7, 2012.
There seems to be a risk that the Health / Statistics Canada work may not cut incisively to the real meat of the matter. The homes are to be selected “at random”, and considerable effort will be devoted to verifying / calibrating predictive computer models of the sound. Also the very involvement of Statistics Canada implies that we may get a finding like “the infrasound is not an issue in 95% of homes with a confidence of 19 times out of twenty”.
The homes should not be selected at random based upon setback distance only. Other factors are very important, such as upwind / downwind, in-plane or perpendicular to the plane of the rotor, etc, Two homes at the same setback distance could have greatly different susceptibility. Since the industry and wind-proponent governments are totally stonewalling, this study should aim to find any homes where there is an effect, and why.
Data collection and anayysis resources should not be squandered on homes for which there is very unlikely to be a problem in the first place. That would just “water down” the statistics. Resources should be focussed in measurement within homes that are more likely to be affected. Collecting key field measurements, within homes, is far more important than calibrating the predictive methods; the predictive methods are a separate issue that can be done later.
Hopefully the “sound propagation” aspects of the work will be planned, executed and analysed by unbiased competent specialists in aerodynamics, acoustics and structural vibration. The fingers of non-technical “generalist” bureaucrats could water this down to irrelevancy.