CTV News, Scott Miller
After many years of suffering, residents don’t want to participate in a study that just produces ‘recommendations’. But even more worrisome to them should be when the investigating Health Unit Epidemiologist, Dr. Erica Clark, has a pretty picture of wind turbines at night hanging on her office wall. Seriously. Wanna remain impartial? You better stick a “Stop the Wind Turbines” sign up beside it.
Of course it fell flat. It was designed to fall flat. What started out as an INVESTIGATION turned into this farce with WCO and University of Waterloo injecting itself into the middle of it. There is no defense for what is going on here. The lead on the study has a big picture of a wind turbine in her office. They refused to take people who just happened to live on the other side of the road in a different county into the study, even though they were under the same turbines supposedly being ‘studied’. University of Waterloo has done some questionable ‘studies’ on health and turbines as well. How the hell they ended up corroborating with WCO for this should raise some questions, in my opinion.
And Health Canada went to Europe to present their IWT health study protocol. Why was this done/needed?
The Medical Director of Health is named in this article. Could this failed study be the result of the ‘politically sensitive’ nature of industrial scale wind In Huron County?
https://www.clintonnewsrecord.com/2014/09/08/clinton-doctor-seeks-huron-bruce-federal-liberal-nomination/wcm/0d896709-fa29-e9a5-b420-bc1a754dcb29
http://notrickszone.com/2018/10/24/heart-jamming-wind-turbines-new-medical-research-confirms-infrasound-negatively-impacts-heart-health/
How long is going to take the Huron County Health Unit to realize that people in H.C. are experiencing cardiac instability from the turbines that were sited too close to their homes? They have been informed. Residents have gone to their doctors and their doctors have done the necessary tests to prove that they did not have typical causative factors. They are willing to show their relevant medical evidence to Minister Christine Elliot NOW, so that she can order that the turbines be turned off in order to protect these people and all rural residents from the cardiovascular harm caused by infrasound radiation. This cumulative harm evidence goes beyond a ‘study’. It is evidence that would stand up in court to prove that our government agents are guilty of neglecting to protect people from environmental harm.
When acoustic waves bombard peoples’ homes and harm them even while they sleep in their beds, these peoples’ human rights have been/are being violated.
Anyone who is in a position of power and could have prevented/could prevent this harm will be held accountable. They are legally liable.
People who remain silent about this gross injustice are complicit.
Those with IWT contracts are in bad situation due to non-disclosure clauses and maybe others are just afraid?
People who are in denial of the harm are interpreting this as a win for their side, as if it was some kind of a game.
A mother of small children whose husband bought a hobby farm for half a million dollars, just before the wind turbines were erected, is now surrounded by turbines. None are on her property. Can you imagine how difficult it must be for her and her husband to reckon with the reality that infrasound could be harming them and their children in their new home, which they just started paying for a few years ago? At this stage in their mortgage, the interest and the interest on the interest is accumulating as they try to keep up with their mortgage payments and raise their family.
Can you imagine the distress they would be facing if they stopped their fierce denial and stopped verbally attacking their neighbours who are being harmed and are well aware of the harm, and realized that even if they choose to deny the harm, it doesn’t stop the harm of trespassing acoustical waves in their home, even while they sleep in their beds.
This situation, at a psychological level is beyond sickening.
UNFCCC
Articles: about 696
Search results: wind turbine noise
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=wind%20turbine%20noise
UNFCCC
Articles: about 406
Search results: wind turbine noise studies.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=wind%20turbine%20noise%20studies
UNECE
Search results: about 226 items.
Search enter: wind turbine noise studies.
http://www.unece.org
UN Environment
Re: migratory birds
Search results: 1 article
http://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=wind+turbine+noise
Wikipedia: Ramsar Convention
Came into force 21 December 1975
Re: wetlands protection.
Ramsar Convention Contracting Parties, 170 as of February 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Ramsar_Convention
Includes North American wetland sites.
UNFCCC
Articles: about 667
Search results: Ramsar Convention.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=Ramsar%20Convention
UNEP Document Repository
Search results: 15 items.
Search enter: Ramsar Convention
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
UN Environment
Search results: Ramsar Conventio, 24 items.
http://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=Ramsar+Convention
One item includes ground water.
UNFCCC
Articles: 392
Search results: potable groundwater
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=potable%20groundwater
Also UNFCCC search: aquifiers
UNEP Document Repository
Search results: 75 items
Search enter: drinking water.
https://wedocs.unep.org/discover
Right sidebar: search by Subject.
UN Environment
Search results: drinking water, 146 items
http://www.unenvironment.org/search/node?keys=drinking+water
UNFCCC
Articles: about 52
Search results: ground water arsenic, global.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=ground%20water%20arsenic
UNFCCC
Articles: about 550
Search results: sediments and potable water safety.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=sediments%20and%20potable%20water%20safety
UNFCCC
Articles: about 547
Search results: sediments and potable water quality.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=sediments%20and%20potable%20water%20quality
And how many people, having been told that the wind turbines are safe or that they negatively affect only people, have moved into a WT exposure zone, taking the gamble that it won’t happen to them? They invest in a home, maybe take on a mortgage (many peoples’ biggest investment of life), and by the time they realize there’s a problem, it’s too late. Before long sleep disturbance evolves into sleep deprivation and other cascading health complications, especially for vulnerable populations. If children are impacted, they could fall behind in school and this can have serious, long-term consequences too. If parents were in denial about it, would anyone blame the victims for failing to mitigate the adverse effects by moving away?
The purpose of the Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act Duty to Investigate is “to determine whether a health hazard exists or does not exist.” The determination should be definitive, one way or the other?
Has the Huron County Health Unit not followed the law? Should they be held liable?
* that they negatively affect only SOME people
Barbara, could you please explain the relevance of the last seven links you’ve provided, to the topic of the Huron County Health Unit ‘study’?
Have never found any UN articles that even mention IWT health related issues. But there are articles related to wildlife.
It’s as if IWT health related issues don’t even exist. At least this much is known.
OTH, there just might be something in these articles to prove otherwise. If IWT noise affects wildlife, then what about humans being affected?
Try more searches using different keywords. Could have missed something?
UNFCCC
Articles: 4, dates back to 1994
Search results: wind turbine annoyance.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=wind%20turbine%20annoyance
UNFCCC
Articles: about 324
Search results: wind turbine noise human health.
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=wind%20turbine%20noise%20human%20health
United Nations
UN Enterprise Search
Global Searches
Search results: wind turbine noise.
https://search.un.org/results.php?query=wind+turbine+noise
Search results: wind turbine annoyance.
https://search.un.org/results.php?query=wind+turbine+annoyance
Also try different key words. Or advanced search on this website.
United Nations
UN Enterprise Search
Global Search
Wind turbines migratory birds.
https://search.un.org/results.php?query=wind+turbines+migratory+birds
Wind turbines migratory bat species.
https://search.un.org/results.php?query=wind+turbines+migratory+bat+species
Try different key words or advanced search on this website.
UN Environment
UN DTU Partnership
Climate Initiatives Platform
Search Initiatives:
Enter: wind energy, renewable energy, etc.
Or check any box or combination of boxes for information on any listed topic.
This is an information database.
http://climateinitiativesplatform.org/index.php/Special:RunQuery/QueryData
The situation we face is that we’ve been lied to about evidence of harm to humans. Those who have been honestly reporting the sudden changes in their health after the turbines were turned on are the evidence that we’ve been lied to and yet these people have been/are being abused for reporting the harm. The harm is both cumulative and irreversible. This has gone on now for 4 years…and in some communities in Ontario, much longer! Even after reporting tonal noise for four years, more than half of the turbines in the K2 Wind project have been finally deemed non-compliant and derated and still there are ignorant people who refuse to acknowledge that the obnoxious noise that was being reported was there since the turbines were first turned on!
Listen to Dr. Mariana Alves-Pereira, an expert in LFN and infrasound, who, after 30 years of involvement with the issue of harm to health, tells the audience,on September 12th, 2019, at the University of Waterloo, about what she saw on her visit to Huron County to see for herself the ridiculously sited turbines in clusters/arrays around peoples’ homes. She met face- to- face with people being harmed.
The video starts after a couple of minutes:
https://livestream.com/itmsstudio/events/8781285
I’ve had it with those who put others down because it’s alleged that those people affected by this situation don’t have reliable information and reference materials.
As long as there is money for IWTs and willing hosts, this likely will continue.