{"id":16793,"date":"2011-08-23T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2012-01-25T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T13:52:26","slug":"i-want-my-life-back-wind-turbine-syndrome-victim-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/i-want-my-life-back-wind-turbine-syndrome-victim-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"“I want my life back!”: Wind Turbine Syndrome victim (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Leonards Hill couple \u2018under siege\u2019 due to wind farm noise”<\/h4>\n

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—Brendan Gullifer, The Courier<\/a> (8\/19\/11)<\/p>\n

Trevor and Maree Frost say they are under siege in their Leonards Hill home of 30 years because of noise from the Hepburn wind farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mrs Frost, a part-time cleaner at Daylesford District Hospital, said she had suffered extreme sleep deprivation since the two turbines began operating earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had enough,\u201d Mrs Frost, 57, said this week. \u201cI want something done. I want my life back. That\u2019s all I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Frost, a 65-year-old firewood supplier, said he was not so badly impacted but had witnessed the deterioration of his wife over recent months.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe makes a lot of mistakes because of a lack of sleep,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Frost said the noise varied from a low whoosh to like a jet engine, depending on wind velocity and direction.<\/p>\n

She said she was forced to wear earplugs while working outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not acceptable for country life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve worked for in the last 20 or 30 years, it feels like it\u2019s all been for nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our place. I\u2019ve never had anything that has interrupted my sleep like this, even when you\u2019ve lost someone in your family. The stress is there all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the couple say their daughter, Jenna, 22, was forced to move away from home because of noise from the turbines, about 520 metres from their house.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe couldn\u2019t hack it,\u201d Mr Frost said. The situation is complex for the tightly-knit Leonards Hill and Korweinguboora communities around the wind farm.<\/p>\n

The turbines are located on land owned by Mr Frost\u2019s cousin, Ron Liversidge. The two men haven\u2019t spoken in recent months.<\/p>\n

Mr Frost said he and his wife had made an official complaint to Hepburn Wind and were keeping a diary of the noise impact.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Simon Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court<\/a>, Chairman, Hepburn Wind<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nEditor’s comment<\/span><\/em>: \u00a0It’s worth reading Dr. Sarah Laurie’s response to the<\/span> Hepburn Wind Farm fiasco<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out the “Hepburn Wind” crowd (including\u00a0Simon Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court, Chairman of Hepburn Wind) were given explicit warning by Dr. Laurie and others about siting their turbines too close to people’s homes. \u00a0The Hepburn Wind Gang turned a deaf ear. \u00a0The result is casualties like the Frosts and<\/span> Dr.\u00a0Andja Mitric-Andjic<\/a>\u2014herself a victim of Wind Turbine Syndrome.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSarah Laurie, MD<\/a>, Medical Director of the\u00a0Waubra Foundation<\/a><\/h6>\n

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\nHepburn Wind Chairman Mr Simon Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court was warned this was the inevitable consequence of locating turbines too close to homes in October 2010, before the turbines were constructed. I wrote to him informing him of this by email on 18th October, 2010 and was subsequently\u00a0interviewed by a local journalist<\/a>, who quoted a representative from Hepburn Wind saying that they were confident there would be no problems, \u201cas there were plenty of studies showing there were no problems\u201d and they had no intention of waiting until independent health studies were completed.<\/p>\n

Hepburn wind representatives and directors cannot say they were unaware of the issues, and the possibility that their turbines might have this effect, because of where they were sited. They chose to ignore that advice at their peril, and have instead chosen to \u201cshoot the messenger\u201d.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when I met with Mr Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court earlier this year, to plead with him to delay starting the turbines until a health study had been done, he admitted he had not read Dr Pierpont\u2019s study, and proceeded to accuse me of scaremongering, both in a private meeting with him and publicly in the oral evidence he gave to the Australian Federal Senate Inquiry into Rural Wind Farms (Melbourne hearing 29\/3\/11, p. 54 onwards<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This conveniently ignores the fact that problems with wind turbines in Australia were being publicly reported well before I became aware of the problem in July 2010. For example, Dr David Iser was an Australian GP who documented cases in Toora in 2004 and notifed health authorities and the then government, but he was ignored.Trish Godfrey<\/a>, the Waubra resident, had publicly\u00a0discussed her problems on a number of occasions<\/a>,\u00a0well before July 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cClinical whistleblower\u201d is a far more apt description than \u201cscaremonger\u201d, and\u00a0I join the ranks of others<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0Dr Amanda Harry<\/strong>\u00a0(UK),\u00a0Dr David Iser<\/strong>\u00a0(Australia),\u00a0Dr Nina Pierpont<\/strong>\u00a0(USA),\u00a0Dr Robert McMurtry<\/strong>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0Dr Michael Nissenbaum<\/strong>\u00a0(USA),\u00a0Dr Chris Hanning<\/strong>\u00a0(UK),\u00a0Dr Mauri Johansson<\/strong>\u00a0(Sweden),\u00a0Dr Henning Theorell<\/strong>\u00a0(Sweden),\u00a0forty physicians in Quebec, Canada<\/a>, who have petitioned the Quebec government to do health proper health studies, and numerous others including more recently Australian doctors such as\u00a0Dr Andja Mitric-Andjic<\/strong>,\u00a0Dr Max Whisson<\/strong>, and\u00a0Dr Wayne Spring<\/strong>, the\u00a0Sleep Physician at Ballarat who has seen a number of patients from Waubra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We now have the dangerous situation of an\u00a0Australian Federal Government<\/a>\u00a0hell-bent on implementation of a technology which is causing serious harm to health around the globe when it is sited inappropriately, yet no action has yet been taken on the findings of their own Federal Senate Inquiry, which recommended urgent research to investigate this problem. It\u2019s full steam ahead, reminiscent of the Titanic\u2026<\/p>\n

The same government is using buckets of taxpayers’ money to advertise this new government policy, featuring Hepburn Wind in it\u2019s advertisements for its government policies, while at the same time this well-intentioned \u201ccommunity-owned\u201d (actually, it is shareholder-owned) wind development is driving people out of their homes of 30 years. And there are apparently 50 more such \u201ccommunity\u201d wind developments planned across the country by Mr Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court and his colleagues. One can only hope that the others are more appropriately sited, based on good independent scientific study, not yet done, or a very conservative setback buffer. Why are they not apparently listening to the\u00a0National Health and Medical Research Council\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0own advice to adopt a \u201cprecautionary approach\u201d?<\/p>\n

No amount of well-intentioned wishful thinking on the part of the directors and investors in these community wind development initiatives will protect nearby residents from the deleterious effects of physical forces such as sound waves, particularly the\u00a0extremely low frequency sound waves emitted by wind turbines<\/a>, both\u00a0airborne and seismic<\/a>, and which are uniquely disturbing, and uniquely penetrating.<\/p>\n

It is high time that Mr Holmes \u00e0\u00a0Court and all the other directors of Hepburn wind faced up to their legal responsibilities as company directors, and took those responsibilities seriously, and did their due diligence with respect to the adverse health effects of these wind turbines. They need to ensure that the acoustics advisers they are using are indeed doing their job properly.<\/p>\n

Already, after a very short time operating under the company Hepburn Wind,\u00a0the turbines are causing harm to health<\/a>, and have had a devastating impact particularly on one family living 500 metres away, with two of the family members being so severely impacted that they have had to move out, or go away, to get relief from the symptoms and problems they are experiencing.<\/p>\n

ALL PREDICTABLE. And ALL PREVENTABLE with the safe siting of turbines, well away from homes.<\/p>\n

We know from the\u00a0Falmouth, Massachusetts (USA) experience<\/a>, that just one turbine is enough to cause serious harm to human health, from the case reports of serious consequences for\u00a0neighbouring residents<\/a>, and visitors (including acoustician\u00a0Rob Rand<\/a>).<\/p>\n

THE TIME FOR DENIAL OF SERIOUS HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THESE TURBINES IS OVER.<\/p>\n

IF THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED BEFORE THE NECESSARY INDEPENDENT ACOUSTICS AND HEALTH STUDIES ARE DONE, THEY MUST BE CONSTRUCTED WELL AWAY FROM HUMAN HABITATION.<\/p>\n

IN AUSTRALIA, THE LIMITS OF CURRENT REPORTS OF SYMPTOMS DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO WIND TURBINES OPERATING (highly\u00a0characteristic body vibrations and the nighttime waking in a panicked state with prolonged difficulty getting back to sleep<\/a>) is 10 kilometres, which is why our\u00a0Explicit Cautionary Notice<\/a>\u00a0has given this distance as the necessary buffer, based on current knowledge. As turbines increase in size and power generating capacity, this may well need to increase, because of the increase in low frequency sound generated (see Moller & Pedersen\u2019s recent paper<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\nDr Sarah Laurie<\/a>
\nMedical Director,\u00a0Waubra Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Leonards Hill couple \u2018under siege\u2019 due to wind farm noise” —Brendan Gullifer, The Courier (8\/19\/11) Trevor and Maree Frost say they are under siege in their Leonards Hill home of 30 years because of noise from the Hepburn wind farm. Mrs Frost, a part-time cleaner at Daylesford District Hospital, said she had suffered extreme sleep deprivation since the two turbines began operating earlier this year. \u201cI\u2019ve had enough,\u201d Mrs Frost, 57, said this week. \u201cI want something done. I want my life back. That\u2019s all I want.\u201d Mr Frost, a 65-year-old firewood supplier, said he was not so badly impacted but had witnessed the deterioration of his wife over recent months. \u201cShe makes a lot of mistakes because of a lack of sleep,\u201d he said. Mrs Frost said the noise varied from a low whoosh to like a jet engine, depending on wind velocity and direction. She said she was forced to wear earplugs while working outside. \u201cIt\u2019s not acceptable for country life,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve worked for in the last 20 or 30 years, it feels like it\u2019s all been for nothing. \u201cThis is our place. I\u2019ve never had anything that has interrupted my sleep like this, even when you\u2019ve lost someone in your family. The stress is there all the time.\u201d And the couple say their daughter, Jenna, 22, was forced to move away from home because of noise from the turbines, about 520 metres from their house. \u201cShe couldn\u2019t hack it,\u201d Mr Frost said. The situation is complex for the tightly-knit Leonards Hill and Korweinguboora communities around the wind farm. The turbines are located on land owned by Mr Frost\u2019s cousin, Ron Liversidge. The two men haven\u2019t spoken in recent months. Mr Frost said he and his wife had made an official complaint to Hepburn WindRead 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\/16793"}],"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=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}