{"id":28782,"date":"2014-04-04T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:15:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:35","slug":"today-its-difficult-to-stop-crying-she-told-chief-medical-officer-dr-rosemary-lester-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2014\/today-its-difficult-to-stop-crying-she-told-chief-medical-officer-dr-rosemary-lester-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cToday, it\u2019s difficult to stop crying,\u201d she told Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rosemary Lester (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEditor\u2019s note<\/em>: \u00a0No, this isn\u2019t Rosemary Lester. \u00a0Rosemary Lester is Chief Medical Officer of the State of Victoria, Australia. \u00a0Dr. Lester is the recipient of the letter reprinted, below \u2014 from a woman, a middle-aged woman, who, as she wrote the letter, couldn\u2019t stop weeping. \u00a0Her name is Melissa Ware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Melissa (lovely name) is writing to Rosemary (another lovely name), asking for humaneness, common sense and, not least, proper medical attention.<\/p>\n

The tragedy is, Rosemary will almost certainly reject Melissa on every request.<\/p>\n

How so? \u00a0Dr. Lester steadfastly refuses to investigate the screamingly obvious health problems at wind farms within her jurisdiction. \u00a0Instead, her department published a report<\/a> denying physiological impacts from wind turbine infrasound and low frequency noise (ILFN). \u00a0A report effectively trashing the work of\u00a0Professor Alec Salt<\/a> (Dept. of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri, USA),\u00a0Professor Colin Hansen<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Nina Pierpont, and a host of other researchers & clinicians who have demonstrated \u2014 drum roll, please! \u2014 direct physiological impacts from wind turbine ILFN. \u00a0(Does this tin-horn bureaucrat know something these clinical researchers \u2014 with credentials that eclipse hers \u2014 don\u2019t know?)<\/p>\n

Leading to the obvious question: \u00a0What happened to Dr. Lester’s duty of care as senior medical officer? \u00a0Where is the state\u2019s duty of care? \u00a0Lester can\u2019t claim she knows nothing about the suffering; Annie Gardner<\/a> bombards her with emails, even as sick and suicidal residents have met with Lester and her department \u2014 for naught.<\/p>\n

\u201cRosemary, what the fuck is going on, honey?\u201d (It\u2019s time to use her first name, reminding her that the \u201cdoctor\u201d stuff is professional horseshit. \u00a0Above all, she\u2019s a human being, dammit, and from our perspective she\u2019s doing a really bad job at that task. \u00a0Not, \u201cFirst, do no harm<\/em>,\u201d but \u201cFirst, be a human being for God\u2019s sake!<\/em>\u201d)<\/p>\n

Rosemary’s own medical\u00a0staff admitted they knew there was a problem with Wind Turbine Syndrome. \u00a0We refer to\u00a0Dr. Simon Slota-Kan and Dr. Stephanie Williams. \u00a0Both physicians admitted to the community and to directors of the Waubra Foundation (meetings in April 2011 at Evansford and on 14th October 2011 in the health department offices in Melbourne), that they knew there were real health problems from turbines!<\/em>\u00a0 Indeed, at the April meeting, Drs. Slota-Kan and Williams said research money was available.<\/p>\n

\u201cUm, Rosemary, what happened to the money, honey?\u201d<\/p>\n

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None of these pleas, none of this evidence, has moved\u00a0<\/span>this\u00a0woman or her department to conduct a health impact assessment, again, despite repeated requests and, indeed, despite it being her legal responsibility. \u00a0And despite it being obvious, for Chrissakes, Rosemary! \u00a0(Why is this woman still in this job? \u00a0Is anyone in the govt.\u00a0<\/span>paying\u00a0attention? \u00a0Where<\/span>\u2019s the media? \u00a0Hello! \u00a0Anyone home in the Land of Oz?) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(Reporting on the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt was struck by what she called \u201cthe banality of evil<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0The government bureaucrat just \u2014 doing his job.) \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Melissa-Ware3\"<\/p>\n

Anyhow, read on. \u00a0Melissa Ware is one of many sufferers under the official, certified, legal, state-mandated, medically approved & authorized & licensed care and protection of Rosemary Lester. \u00a0(Why does she still hold a medical license?)<\/p>\n

What the fuck!?<\/em>
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This abuse and torture have got to stop, now! \u00a0Too many of us, including children, handicapped and elders are physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted, too many of us are fed up, and too many of us are forced to live with preventable pain caused by operating or proposed industrial wind facilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nTo<\/strong>: \u00a0Dr. Rosemary Lester,\u00a0Chief Health Officer, Victoria, Australia<\/span>
\nFrom<\/strong>: \u00a0Melissa Ware, Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia
\nRegarding<\/strong>: \u00a0Abuse & torture of residents by wind turbine infrasound & low frequency noise
\nDate<\/strong>: \u00a0April 2, 2014<\/p>\n

You and your Department are well aware of impacts of industrial wind turbines on human health from reports from Victorian residents.\u00a0 This document explains precisely what is occurring for residents living in quiet rural areas and what physiological harm is occurring (click here<\/a>).
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

We experience many health problems\u00a0living next door to the Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm in South West Victoria. I have read the statement by Mr. Mark Duchamp\u00a0from the World\u00a0Council of Nature (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Today it\u2019s difficult to stop crying.\u00a0\u00a0 Not only is human health being ignored, animals are severely impacted by wind turbines as well.\u00a0 Tears are flowing because not only are animals not protected\u00a0from harm, neither are we residents. We can no longer bear the impact of our experiences near wind facilities not being heard, not being acted on and not being prevented.<\/p>\n

GP\u2019s and Specialists advise the cure is to \u201cmove away,\u201d give limited instructions and advice, proffer prescriptions and pills, request blood tests etc. to discover the cause of ill-health and as required by law to provide correct diagnosis and treatment; expensive measures on a national scale and our health and well-being deteriorates.\u00a0 Relocation is unaffordable, our home deemed unsalable according to the valuer engaged by the bank holding our mortgage.\u00a0 We have followed instructions of the Health Department, Department of Planning, and Glenelg Shire Council and co-operated as requested, with Pacific Hydro whom own the wind facility.<\/p>\n

We are traumatised by the inhumanity being shown towards our communities.<\/p>\n

We hit our heads against a medical system brick wall over and over again, in attempt to be simply being heard.\u00a0 To repeatedly point out independent noise testing in our homes detects noise problems, that these noises are the direct cause of headaches, illness and many health problems. To repeatedly be put down, dismissed and told \u201cthere are no problems near wind farms\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s nothing we can do\u201d or \u201cthere is no evidence\u201d or \u201cmove away.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those responsible for our pain, to legally speak, \u201cIgnorance is no excuse,\u201d and you will be held to account.<\/p>\n

The 2011 \u201cSenate Inquiry into the Impact of Wind Farms<\/a>\u201d\u00a0called for more research into wind farm noise, as does Prime Minister Abbot\u2019s government, as does Minister Guy, as does the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC), as do many senators and professionals and persons of integrity wanting to see justice for people and communities who are negatively impacted and suffering.<\/p>\n

Solid stone homes, concrete slabs, corrugated roofs and sheds, even the ground vibrates to the sound energy emissions from the turbines.\u00a0 Bodies and internal organs and tiny bones, vibrate to imissions and are blasted by pressure waves. Years of exposure to bodily harm; infrasound and low frequency noise bombard every living cell. Prolonged exposure to noise and resulting sleep deprivation causes harm.<\/p>\n

Noise pollution from wind turbines was shown by Dr Neil Kelley, thirty years ago, to DIRECTLY cause a range of symptoms, currently named Wind Turbine Syndrome, to neighbours of bigger and larger wind facilities with ongoing unresolved noise issues (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Negative impacts have been well researched and documented. \u00a0Dr. Kelley defined and established health protective exposure limits for wind turbine infrasound and low frequency noise, which state and federal governments, including the NHMRC, have been repeatedly made aware of, yet choose to ignore.<\/p>\n

The Association of Veterans Affairs Audiologists in America in 2010 documented the effects of infrasound and recommended levels of exposure determined by various highly regarded bodies such as NASA etc. (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

No-one monitors or limits our exposure levels<\/b><\/p>\n

Not to noise, not to infrasound, not to blade flicker, not to vibration within our homes, not to electromagnetic radiation \u2014 no one is monitoring this industry.\u00a0 People living next door are required to report faults, or fires, or blade damage or noises. \u00a0There\u2019s seemingly no safeguarding whistles and bells, as reported at this<\/a> wind facility.<\/p>\n

Environmental noise exposure risks public health, and is recognised by international bodies such as the World <\/b>Health <\/b>Organisation and the US Center for Disease Control.\u00a0 What are your directives for managing wind farm harm?\u00a0 What are you doing to protect people from wind industry interference in health management? Interference revealed by Senator Madigan in parliament recently regarding wind farm communications with medical clinics in the Western District, including two clinics in Portland (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

How much longer are we to bear ongoing wind farm abuses?\u00a0\u00a0 Six, ten, twenty, thirty years reporting problems and nothing<\/span> has been done to cease the pain and harm.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been palmed off from one government department to another and eventually ignored or derided. \u00a0All the while, infrasound and low frequency noise, audible noise and vibration from the turbines tortures us.<\/p>\n

Noises annoy us, sleep eludes us<\/b><\/p>\n

Denial of the problems and this form of torture is unacceptable. \u00a0No doubt litigation will occur here in Australia as it has \u00a0overseas, with turbines being ordered to be pulled down in Portugal, because of proven vibroacoustic disease in animals and humans. \u00a0In December 2013, Justice Muse ordered the wind farm in Falmouth, Massachusetts (USA) to be turned off at night to prevent \u201cirreparable harm to physical and psychological health.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

How often is it to be repeated that people, physicians, the public, administrators must be better educated regarding the issues we\u2019re daily confronted with? \u00a0The Health Department, the EPA, the NHMRC and government are where such awareness and education begin, where solutions are enacted.\u00a0 Departments, professionals and government representatives, including local government, need to consider their advice (or lack of), their own behaviour, adhere to their standards of conduct and act with integrity and honesty, and have no conflicts of interest and actively advocate on our behalf.<\/p>\n

Even the wind industry \u00a0admits to problems of noise, engineering design and maintenance. \u00a0(See, for example, lubrication problems and poor or incorrect installation or siting.) \u00a0Section 5.1.1 of the draft New Zealand standard on wind farm noise, 2009, states:\u00a0 \u201cLimits for wind farm noise are required to provide protection against sleep disturbance and maintain reasonable residential amenity.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

THIS ABUSE AND TORTURE HAVE GOT TO STOP, NOW! \u00a0Too many of us, including children, handicapped and elders are physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted, too many of us are fed up, and too many of us are forced to live with preventable pain caused by operating or proposed industrial wind facilities.<\/p>\n

Raising awareness starts by reading professional and personal statements. \u00a0You may begin here with responses made to the Australian Medical Association’s recent statement<\/a> wrongly proclaiming no health effects from wind farms.<\/p>\n

Your written response to this letter and URGENT action from you and your department, consistent with your legal, professional and ethical duties, are urgently required.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Editor\u2019s note: \u00a0No, this isn\u2019t Rosemary Lester. \u00a0Rosemary Lester is Chief Medical Officer of the State of Victoria, Australia. \u00a0Dr. Lester is the recipient of the letter reprinted, below \u2014 from a woman, a middle-aged woman, who, as she wrote the letter, couldn\u2019t stop weeping. \u00a0Her name is Melissa Ware. Melissa (lovely name) is writing to Rosemary (another lovely name), asking for humaneness, common sense and, not least, proper medical attention. The tragedy is, Rosemary will almost certainly reject Melissa on every request. How so? \u00a0Dr. Lester steadfastly refuses to investigate the screamingly obvious health problems at wind farms within her jurisdiction. \u00a0Instead, her department published a report denying physiological impacts from wind turbine infrasound and low frequency noise (ILFN). \u00a0A report effectively trashing the work of\u00a0Professor Alec Salt (Dept. of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri, USA),\u00a0Professor Colin Hansen,\u00a0Dr. Nina Pierpont, and a host of other researchers & clinicians who have demonstrated \u2014 drum roll, please! \u2014 direct physiological impacts from wind turbine ILFN. \u00a0(Does this tin-horn bureaucrat know something these clinical researchers \u2014 with credentials that eclipse hers \u2014 don\u2019t know?) Leading to the obvious question: \u00a0What happened to Dr. Lester’s duty of care as senior medical officer? \u00a0Where is the state\u2019s duty of care? \u00a0Lester can\u2019t claim she knows nothing about the suffering; Annie Gardner bombards her with emails, even as sick and suicidal residents have met with Lester and her department \u2014 for naught. \u201cRosemary, what the fuck is going on, honey?\u201d (It\u2019s time to use her first name, reminding her that the \u201cdoctor\u201d stuff is professional horseshit. \u00a0Above all, she\u2019s a human being, dammit, and from our perspective she\u2019s doing a really bad job at that task. \u00a0Not, \u201cFirst, do no harm,\u201d but \u201cFirst, be a human being for God\u2019s sake!\u201d) Rosemary’s ownRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}