Friday, January 20, 2012

Turbines How Close is TOO Close?

Dr. Nina Pierpont recently posted a letter from a man describing his 15-month nightmare caused by six giant wind turbines that he cannot even see from his house. These Turbines are 7.1 miles away from his home as the crow flies. He describes all the classic symptoms of wind turbine syndrome lack of sleep, loss of energy, lack of concentration, He says the noise and not just the lack of sleep is driving him crazy.
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He wrote that ~ he tried last month to go 10 miles away to try find some sleep at friends’ and I couldn’t: the noise, though a bit weaker there, was still around and I slept very badly. Badly enough to see one small hope of living normally from time to time—vanish.
After one year in the dark, I am beginning to think of other people like me around the world.
I am still in great danger, but the thought of others sharing the same nightmare as mine, well, helps, if I may say so.
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This letter got my attention because Cape Vincent is in close proximity to the wind turbines on Wolfe Island, and I have not yet any heard any reports of negative health effects concerning the wind turbines In Cape Vincent.

It would be logical to assume that people may be affected and are just writing in off as something other than wind turbines. They may have considered that their problems are caused by wind turbines and felt that they did not want to be labeled a nut case, or they may be in denial having decided that this cannot be the case because of the distance the turbines are from Cape. There are many other reasons that may come into play as well. I have read that some people are more sensitive to the low frequency noise emitted by wind turbines but ,what is the distance that is necessary for turbines to be safe?

To read the letter to Dr. Pierpont link below

French writer going nuts from wind turbines( France)

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