{"id":18254,"date":"2011-12-12T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2012-01-21T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:12:44","slug":"wind-turbines-and-public-health-its-time-to-act-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/wind-turbines-and-public-health-its-time-to-act-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wind turbines and public health: It’s time to act!” (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPress Release
\n<\/span>.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span>\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n

Wind Turbines and Public Health: It’s Time to Act<\/em>1<\/sup><\/h2>\n

\u00b7<\/span>
\n Waubra Foundation<\/a> (Australia)<\/h4>\n

12-11-11<\/p>\n

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\nIt is now 6 months since the Australian Federal Senate inquiry Report into\u00a0Rural Wind Farms was tabled.2<\/sup> This Inquiry made 7 recommendations,\u00a0including to:<\/p>\n

(1) \u201cInitiate as a matter of priority<\/strong> thorough adequately resourced\u00a0epidemiological and laboratory studies\u201d (recommendation #4).<\/p>\n

(2) Develop noise standards which \u201ccalculate the impact of low frequency\u00a0noise and vibrations indoors at impacted dwellings\u201d (recommendation #1)<\/p>\n

There has been no action on any of the recommendations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Clean Energy Legislation has been passed, which will inevitably result in many more rural residents being driven from their homes and farms, as \u201cwind farm refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Governments in Australia have been warned about these consequences with\u00a0the Explicit Cautionary Notice<\/a> issued by the Waubra Foundation on 29th<\/sup> June,\u00a02011.3<\/sup><\/p>\n

There is willing blindness<\/strong> on the part of the politicians and the bureaucrats, and fraudulent denia<\/strong>l on the part of the wind developers who know only too well about the adverse health problems which are being reported globally.<\/p>\n

These rural residents are being openly referred to as \u201ccollateral damage\u201d or \u201cpolicy roadkill\u201d by developers, and their supporters, some admitting they\u00a0know people are becoming ill, but state it is \u201cfor the greater good.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is yet another lie that \u201cthere are no problems anywhere else in the world,\u201d and that \u201cthings are fine in Denmark.\u201d \u00a0Distinguished Danish acoustician, Professor Henrik M\u00f8ller<\/a>, has been driven to speak out publicly at the current collusion between the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, the wind developers and the Danish Government regarding the proposed new low frequency noise guidelines.4<\/sup><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lousy photo of Dr. Henrik M\u00f8ller<\/span><\/p>\n

All is not \u201cfine\u201d in Denmark, nor anywhere else where wind turbines have been built too close to homes.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the commencement of the Australian Wind Industry\u2019s “talkfest” in Melbourne (Australia), where no doubt the usual denials of any health problems will be evident, it is time for the Australian Federal and State Governments to address these serious and growing health problems in rural residents living within 10 km of current wind developments.<\/p>\n

The latest victims are from the Daylesford region, casualties of Hepburn Wind\u2019s community wind farm, and AGL\u2019s wind development at Glenthompson, not yet commissioned.<\/p>\n

The time for denial of serious health problems is over.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The time to act is now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

References<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WaubraFoundation<\/a><\/p>\n

2. http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/senate\/committee\/clac_ctte\/impact_rural_wind_far ms\/report\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

3. http:\/\/media.crikey.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/caution.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

4. http:\/\/www.epaw.org\/media.php?lang=en&article=pr4<\/a><\/p>\n

.<\/span>
\nMedia Enquiries<\/span>: \u00a0Sarah Laurie, MD, Medical Director, Waubra Foundation<\/a>, \u00a0sarah@waubrafoundation.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Press Release . \u00b7 Wind Turbines and Public Health: It’s Time to Act1 \u00b7 Waubra Foundation (Australia) 12-11-11 . It is now 6 months since the Australian Federal Senate inquiry Report into\u00a0Rural Wind Farms was tabled.2 This Inquiry made 7 recommendations,\u00a0including to: (1) \u201cInitiate as a matter of priority thorough adequately resourced\u00a0epidemiological and laboratory studies\u201d (recommendation #4). (2) Develop noise standards which \u201ccalculate the impact of low frequency\u00a0noise and vibrations indoors at impacted dwellings\u201d (recommendation #1) There has been no action on any of the recommendations. Since then, the Clean Energy Legislation has been passed, which will inevitably result in many more rural residents being driven from their homes and farms, as \u201cwind farm refugees.\u201d Governments in Australia have been warned about these consequences with\u00a0the Explicit Cautionary Notice issued by the Waubra Foundation on 29th June,\u00a02011.3 There is willing blindness on the part of the politicians and the bureaucrats, and fraudulent denial on the part of the wind developers who know only too well about the adverse health problems which are being reported globally. These rural residents are being openly referred to as \u201ccollateral damage\u201d or \u201cpolicy roadkill\u201d by developers, and their supporters, some admitting they\u00a0know people are becoming ill, but state it is \u201cfor the greater good.\u201d It is yet another lie that \u201cthere are no problems anywhere else in the world,\u201d and that \u201cthings are fine in Denmark.\u201d \u00a0Distinguished Danish acoustician, Professor Henrik M\u00f8ller, has been driven to speak out publicly at the current collusion between the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, the wind developers and the Danish Government regarding the proposed new low frequency noise guidelines.4 Lousy photo of Dr. Henrik M\u00f8ller All is not \u201cfine\u201d in Denmark, nor anywhere else where wind turbines have been built too close to homes. On the eve of the commencementRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254"}],"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=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}