{"id":14881,"date":"2011-03-28T21:57:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=14881"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T14:15:29","slug":"vomited-5-more-times-by-9-am-ontario-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/vomited-5-more-times-by-9-am-ontario-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"“Vomited 5 more times by 9 am” (Ontario, Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note<\/em>: \u00a0The following is the submission<\/a> by a man named Paul Thompson to the Australian Federal Senate hearing<\/a> on the Social & Economic Impacts of Rural Wind Farms<\/a>. \u00a0Mr. Thompson lives across the road from a wind farm substation (power collecting station, which then sends the power on to the grid). \u00a0The turbines, themselves, are (I believe) several miles away. \u00a0How much of his Wind Turbine Syndrome is owing to the substation and how much to the turbines themselves—I have no idea. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>
\n\u2014Paul Thompson<\/p>\n

I reside in the\u00a0township of Amaranth in the County of Dufferin in the Province of Ontario, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0I have lived for 5 years (on February 16, 2011) with a Commercial Electrical\u00a0Substation (T\/S) energized 360 meters (1,181 feet) from my home, which provides\u00a0the provincial grid connection for a 199.5 MW industrial wind turbine\u00a0facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was born on this \u201c97-acre more or less\u201d rural property 47 years ago and\u00a0severed off a 1 acre parcel in 1989 and built my current home from the ground up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have included excerpts from my daily diary in an attempt to help demonstrate to\u00a0you the adverse effects imposed on my body by this installation. I have been renting\u00a0other accommodations to sleep in at night since May 1, 2009, and driving to and\u00a0from daily, thereby increasing substantially the financial encumbrance and wear and\u00a0tear on my vehicle and my person.<\/p>\n

I have been to my family doctor and have exhausted the headache, tinnitus\u00a0testing regimen of my physician, including a MRI, CT scan, neurologist and a pain\u00a0management clinic, etc.<\/p>\n

The conclusion reached by the medical profession after all\u00a0of these tests seems to be that the problem is not with me. The \u201cpain management\u00a0clinician\u201d told me \u201cthis is my shortest diagnosis ever. \u00a0You already know what the\u00a0problem is. \u00a0What are going to do to move out?”<\/p>\n

The only conclusion I can\u00a0reach is that it must be the environment I live in. The only change in the environment\u00a0I live in since my home was built is the installation of the T\/S across the road from\u00a0my property.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An example from my diary of my worst day yet to occur on my property:<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Arrived home at 6 am OK. (I discovered last October what I have been calling\u00a0OK in my diary for years is just what has become a \u201cnormal\u201d amount of adverse effects to me, this I determined after spending two days in a secluded cabin in the\u00a0woods with electricity. \u00a0It is possible, in a \u201cclean” location, to enjoy no ringing in ears\u00a0at all and not even a slight headache.)<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Wicked ringing in ears on entering house.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By\u00a06:30 am could easily vomit, wickedly dizzy, nauseous, medium headache, and\u00a0diarrhea.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By 6:45am felt really rotten (vomited twice) after having one bite of a waffle\u00a0for breakfast, which I threw up almost instantly along with a sip of my morning coffee\u00a0before I left the house for outside (being outside usually helps to alleviate symptoms)\u00a0at 7 am.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By 7:30 am condition has worsened. \u00a0It is unsafe (extremely dizzy) to drive to\u00a0leave here, so I lay down in my pickup in the front yard (where I parked it on coming\u00a0home, unfortunately, between my house and T\/S—I had to move very slowly to\u00a0avoid falling and vomiting) until 12:20pm.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Vomited 5 more times by 9 am.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Entered\u00a0house for lunch (unsuccessful). \u00a0Still same symptoms as above except now I have\u00a0progressed to a wicked headache.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> In house I could hear an \u201celectric motor running\u201d\u00a0type noise coming from the T\/S. (This happens on occasion, may be the low\u00a0frequency noise aspect affecting my brain?)<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> In house until 1 pm. \u00a0Struggled outside to\u00a0truck parked in front yard till 3 pm. \u00a0By then felt capable (vision cleared to the point of\u00a0being able to see and feel well enough to drive around house and shed, hopefully\u00a0without hitting it) of moving the pickup to back yard out of view of passersby (two\u00a0visitors came by while parked in front yard; it’s hard to talk when this sick without\u00a0vomiting) and behind shed hoping, that with the house and my shed behind house\u00a0blocking \u201cline of sight” to T\/S, I might feel better. Stayed there until 7 pm. By then\u00a0symptoms had backed off to slight headache and medium ringing in ears (almost\u00a0\u201cnormal\u201d). \u00a0Other symptoms have backed off as well.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Entered house. \u00a0By 7:20 pm back\u00a0to medium headache and slight ringing in ears, almost diarrhea, had something to\u00a0eat (first time today it stayed down) by 9:30pm, when felt semi-safe to drive to leave\u00a0here—I could easily vomit again.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By the next morning on awakening at 6am, all is well again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An example of a good day:<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Awoke at 6:15 am. \u00a0Arrived home at 6:45 am. \u00a0Felt OK.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Instant medium ringing in ears\u00a0on entering house.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By 7 am, medium headache started. \u00a0In house until 7:45 am.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Away\u00a0on service call until 11:40 am. \u00a0Felt OK by 10:30 am, on entering house at 11:40am\u00a0OK until 11:50 am then slight ringing in ears and slight to medium headache started.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> Left house at 12:30 pm on service call. \u00a0Away until 7:45 pm. I felt OK by 2 pm. On\u00a0entering house at 7:45 pm instant medium ringing in ears started and slight to\u00a0medium headache.<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> By 8:40 pm it had progressed to medium ringing in ears and\u00a0medium headache<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> I left house at 9:30 pm.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my opinion the reason this is an example of a relatively good day is the fact I spent\u00a0less than 4 hours on my property in three batches of time, separated with a\u00a0\u201cdetoxification” period in between.<\/p>\n

An example of an average day:<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span> An average day usually starts out with no issues (OK) while sleeping elsewhere. On\u00a0entering my home (on many occasions when unlocking the door) I have up to a\u00a0maximum of 17 minutes in the house, if I\u2019m lucky, before ringing in ears at various\u00a0intensities and headache at various intensities starts, interspersed on some days with\u00a0alternating bouts of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, occasional chest\u00a0tightness (plus stiff, seized limbs, if I spend too much time in the house or sleep here), short-term (new) memory loss. \u00a0(Just yesterday, in a restaurant, I had decided\u00a0what to order and asked the lady with me to order first. By the time she was done\u00a0ordering chicken fingers and a drink, I had totally forgotten what I wanted to order. \u00a0How embarrassing!) This problem [memory loss] seems to linger (based on conversations with\u00a0people who are no longer exposed and haven\u2019t been for years), and in my case it seems to be getting worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In short, I know something bad will happen every day I reside on my property. \u00a0The\u00a0only variables are which symptoms, besides the headache and ringing in ears, how\u00a0bad, and how long will they last.<\/p>\n

I have learned to spend as little time as possible on\u00a0my property, as it is the only sure way to prevent or alleviate my symptoms.<\/p>\n

I have\u00a0found no \u201cpain killers\u201d that work, and my doctor tried me on many different ones\u00a0before I discovered the \u201ccure\u201d for my headache was to essentially abandon my\u00a0property as much as possible.<\/p>\n

I have had several persons (some of which had never been on my premises\u00a0before) visit my home. \u00a0Ninety-nine percent of them left in 5 to 30 minutes, either with a feeling of\u00a0tightness in their chest or a headache, or both. \u00a0Some have also experienced the ringing\u00a0in their ears. All these symptoms dissipate for them within an hour or so of leaving\u00a0my home, depending on how long they have been visiting.<\/p>\n

I also have had on some occasions a severe problem with an audible hum\u00a0emanating from the T\/S (distinctly audible inside the house with doors and windows\u00a0closed, wearing 27 dB noise reduction rated ear protection).<\/p>\n

In my opinion, the reason\u00a0the hum is such a problem is the fact that the Ontario Ministry of the Environment\u00a0(MOE) decided that a noise level of 40 dBA on the A-scale was an appropriate\u00a0level for a rural area at night, when in fact, during short term testing at my property by\u00a0a qualified acoustic consultant at approximately 2 am, the noise level was 16 dBA. \u00a0An increase in noise level of 20dBA is accepted as a minimum of a 4-fold increase of the noise level to the human ear—an increase in \u201cpower level\u201d of well over\u00a0100 times. This is due to the logarithmic scale used to measure noise levels.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Another way of putting this is to quote the wind developers’ mantra: \u00a0\u201c40 dBA is no louder than a library or a refrigerator.” The World Health Organization\u00a0(WHO) has determined that the difference in the noise level between inside and\u00a0outside a home (even with windows open) will be approximately 15 dBA. According\u00a0to a noise level comparison chart on the Internet, 0 dBA is regarded as the\u00a0threshold of hearing, 10 dBA is a sound-proof room, and 20 dBA is the equivalent of a recording studio.<\/p>\n

If we factor in my 16 dBA outside, minus WHO’s 15 dBA reduction, I have\u00a0essentially been forced from a room at almost the threshold of hearing (1 dBA, 9\u00a0dBA quieter than a \u201csoundproof\u201d room), to a room in a library with a refrigerator in it\u00a0when the T\/S was first energized. This demonstrates the \u201cflaw\u201d in the audible portion\u00a0of the MOE noise guideline.<\/p>\n

I have tried 3 times to have the guideline revised. All\u00a0were refused. The guideline also makes no attempt to address low frequency noise, or Infrasound, which I fear may create even larger problems at by these rural\u00a0installations.<\/p>\n

I trust no one reading this submission would willingly accept an increase in the\u00a0noise level of 4 times as loud to the ear where they attempt to sleep at night. Bear in\u00a0mind, this could very well be non-stop, 24\/7, for potentially the rest of your life, or until\u00a0you can\u2019t stand it any longer and move away. \u00a0Or, as I have been forced to do, rent\u00a0other accommodations in which to enjoy a night’s sleep with all the attendant\u00a0expenses thus incurred.<\/p>\n

I have attached the decision rendered (September 12, 2008) in my case by the property tax Assessment Review Board (ARB), as\u00a0an example of the impact of wind development on the municipal tax base and the\u00a0ratepayer (me). (Thanks to the detriment across the road, I believe my property is not\u00a0salable. \u00a0A clause in the real estate law in this province states you must reveal to a\u00a0potential buyer any detriments to your property or face legal repercussions.)<\/p>\n

This decision represents a 50% loss to the municipality, possibly a complete loss of\u00a0value to the ratepayer. Since the rendering of this decision, the T\/S has been\u00a0expanded to double its size. I will be appealing once again to the ARB in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After reading the above letter, ask yourself, How much would\u00a0you be willing to pay for my property?<\/em><\/p>\n

The more important question: How many of your fellow residents are you willing\u00a0to force to endure this situation or one similar, possibly worse, in the name of\u00a0unproved to really be \u201cgreen\u201d energy?<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note: \u00a0The following is the submission by a man named Paul Thompson to the Australian Federal Senate hearing on the Social & Economic Impacts of Rural Wind Farms. \u00a0Mr. Thompson lives across the road from a wind farm substation (power collecting station, which then sends the power on to the grid). \u00a0The turbines, themselves, are (I believe) several miles away. \u00a0How much of his Wind Turbine Syndrome is owing to the substation and how much to the turbines themselves—I have no idea. \u00b7 \u2014Paul Thompson I reside in the\u00a0township of Amaranth in the County of Dufferin in the Province of Ontario, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0I have lived for 5 years (on February 16, 2011) with a Commercial Electrical\u00a0Substation (T\/S) energized 360 meters (1,181 feet) from my home, which provides\u00a0the provincial grid connection for a 199.5 MW industrial wind turbine\u00a0facility. I was born on this \u201c97-acre more or less\u201d rural property 47 years ago and\u00a0severed off a 1 acre parcel in 1989 and built my current home from the ground up. I have included excerpts from my daily diary in an attempt to help demonstrate to\u00a0you the adverse effects imposed on my body by this installation. I have been renting\u00a0other accommodations to sleep in at night since May 1, 2009, and driving to and\u00a0from daily, thereby increasing substantially the financial encumbrance and wear and\u00a0tear on my vehicle and my person. I have been to my family doctor and have exhausted the headache, tinnitus\u00a0testing regimen of my physician, including a MRI, CT scan, neurologist and a pain\u00a0management clinic, etc. The conclusion reached by the medical profession after all\u00a0of these tests seems to be that the problem is not with me. The \u201cpain management\u00a0clinician\u201d told me \u201cthis is my shortest diagnosis ever. \u00a0You already know what the\u00a0problem is. \u00a0What are going to do to moveRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881"}],"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=14881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}