{"id":4264,"date":"2009-10-03T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2012-02-02T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T12:10:41","slug":"vad-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/vad-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"How does one respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\""Grief"\"<\/a>
\n“Grief,” by <\/span>John Clum<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How does one respond to the letter, below?\u00a0 (Click here<\/a> for the original text.)\u00a0 From Sharon Ward in Texas.\u00a0 About Vibroacoustic Disease (VAD) caused by low frequency noise (LFN) from natural gas compressors.\u00a0 One hundred thirty compressors in her county.<\/p>\n

Sharon says\u00a0a member of their group (Citizens for Environmental Cleanup) has been diagnosed with VAD by Dr. Debbie Wright, a cardiologist in Lafayette, IN.\u00a0 Dr. Wright has studied with the Portuguese VAD group, led by pathologist N. A. A. Castello Branco.\u00a0 (See\u00a0NAA Castelo Branco\u00a0and M\u00a0Alves-Pereira, “Vibroacoustic disease,” Noise Health<\/em> 6:23 [2004]: 3-20.)\u00a0 Dr. Wright understands VAD.\u00a0 So does Dr. Pierpont, although she claims no special expertise in it.\u00a0 (Click here<\/a> to read what Pierpont has written about VAD in her WTS book.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

So how does one reply to this letter?\u00a0 Where is the National Institutes of Health?\u00a0 The CDC?\u00a0 The Texas Department of Health.\u00a0 Where are all the Texas doctors?\u00a0 Understand that Sharon is not talking about wind turbines.\u00a0 Nor is VAD likely to be a significant element in Wind Turbine Syndrome, argues Pierpont.\u00a0 VAD is, however, acknowledged in numerous European countries as a genuine industrial disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover, Dr. Pierpont will tell you that any physician worth her (his) salt listens to people like Sharon Ward, taking their complaints seriously.\u00a0 It’s only quacks, light-weights, the callous, or the poorly trained who brush them off—because they’re frightened by the symptoms and know they can’t figure them out.\u00a0 Or they’re shills for industry.\u00a0 Or just plain insensitive.<\/p>\n

Nina Pierpont is a country doctor.\u00a0 Just one person.\u00a0 How on earth can she shoulder this huge undertaking in addition to WTS and having a full medical practice?\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if she won’t, who will?\u00a0 Who has?\u00a0 Where’s the government?\u00a0 What’s it for?\u00a0 What is the government doing?\u00a0 (Obama, are you reading this?\u00a0 And if not, why not?)<\/p>\n

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.<\/p>\n

—Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—the Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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September 26, 2009<\/p>\n

Dear Dr. Pierpont,<\/p>\n

I would like to thank you for making time to read this. Also, for your excellent work on WTS.\u00a0 It is so similar to VAD Vibroacoustic Disease caused by low frequency noise. Initially identified in the aeronautical field, by military pilots and aircrew. I am sure you are aware ofVieques, Puerto Rico studies.\u00a0 The Navy bought the end of this small island for artillery practice. Poor people lived at the other end of the island. They have since suffered high cancer rates, heart problems, internal problems, and low birth weights.<\/p>\n

I live in Texas, the state with the most gas wells (95,000+). The gas from the wells is piped to compressor stations. Our county has 130 or more compressor stations. The low frequency noise travels up to 5 miles radius, thereby overlapping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our director, Charles Morgan, has been diagnosed with VAD by a Dr. Wright in Indiana.\u00a0 Feel so bad for him.\u00a0 Sometimes he drives 150 miles just to sleep.\u00a0 His eardrums have burst twice. He has very bad headaches and burning in his veins.<\/p>\n

We have tried all means to get to get Noise Law (1982) given to states re-enacted, to no avail.\u00a0 We have tried to get school districts to have a noise assessment. We have been to Austin to see Representatives and Senators. We are not trying to stop big oil & gas, just get them to give up some of those\u00a0billions in profit and do the responsible thing by enclosing, or using noise abatement, on these compressor stations.\u00a0 Yes, even the rural ones.\u00a0 To protect us and the wildlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Could I be so bold to ask if you could do a paper or write something on this subject you know so much about? \u00a0Please help us!\u00a0 I wear earphones and take\u00a0[redacted] medicine, and can’t afford to move away.<\/p>\n

Enclosed please find our brochure. Thank you again for your time.<\/p>\n

Sincerely<\/p>\n

Sharon Ward, Secretary
\nFairfield, TX 75840
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