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“‘When the wind is blowing north I got a thumping headache, like someone belted me over the head with a plank of wood and I didn’t know whether to go to the hospital or what to do. You couldn’t really work.’ It was only after the 57-year-old couple travelled to their other property, in Donald, in northern Victoria, and instantly felt well again, that they wondered whether the turbines were churning away at their health.”
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“‘As soon as they turned on the first windmill, I knew they were wrong,’ she recalled. ‘People here were just flabbergasted. We had already dealt with the noise of them blasting and clearing land, and then we heard the windmills. We knew we had made a mistake.’ The Todds described hearing a ‘phfoop . . . phfoop . . . phfoop’ noise when the first windmill was turned on. Noise issues were taken to town officials in January 2007.
“Haying,” by Grant Wood (1939)
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*“According to the land registry office in Orangeville, six homes in Dufferin County [Ontario, Canada] have been purchased by wind developers after serious [health] complaints. Most recently June 26th, 2009, the Barbara Ashbee home.
“Before these families could escape the nightmare of their unliveable homes, they had to agree to sign strict nondisclosure contracts—in other words, gag-orders to protect the wind companies. The wind company has spent over $1.75 million dollars clandestinely buying out these people, yet it claims there were no [health] complaints.
“Since moving here, my husband suffers tinnitus and I have the odd panic attack and heart palpitation that I can actually feel in my chest—that vibration [Visceral Vibratory Vestibular Disturbance] that [Dr. Pierpont] talked about.”
