It seems that the hot topic of today in the media is wind
farms, and specifically the need for them to be less of them…and by less I mean
none. Tuesday Health Canada and Stats Canada announced that they were going to
go through with a study of the effects of wind turbines on people.
This doesn’t come as a surprise to me, people have been
whining and complaining louder than the so-called noise these turbines make.
People are complaining about feeling sick, dizzy and suffering other
health-related issues directly linked to the wind turbines- so they think.
Right now, Conservative MPP Fedeli is calling for a
moratorium on wind development until the results of the study. His reasoning is
that there is obviously a reason for the study therefore they are dangerous.
Pushing aside the bandwagoning, of course they’re going to do a study about
wind turbines! People have been fighting them since they were installed,
stating health concerns, regardless if they turn out to be completely fine you
can’t have a large chunk of the population saying they’re getting ill from
these things and not release a study.
This study is created to quell this deep rooted fear that something
that’s good for the environment is bad for your health. From what’s been shown
through the media (I am aware that there is more on this story- so please feel
free to forward any additional expert talk from both sides of this argument
on), that the majority of people opposing it have no background in healthcare
or environmental issues affecting healthcare. Look at Fedeli, he has extensive
experience in his field; which is not healthcare-based. Coming out as a
spokesperson makes you appear as an expert which is why I don’t agree with
someone with no healthcare background stepping into the limelight demanding
action based on a study.
I think that before you can really start to point fingers at
health-related issues you need to look at all the factors affecting the
individual. This isn’t food poisoning where everyone ate at the same place;
this is a dispersed group of individuals leaving near or around wind turbines.
The study needs to take into account the individual lives of these people and
look for what’s hypersensitivity to LFN and what’s other external factors.
All information taken from the Belleville Intelligencer
article:
Stop wind turbines: Fedeli by Intelligencer Staff.
Stop wind turbines: Fedeli by Intelligencer Staff.
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