Wisconsin Renewable Energy Community Sheds Light On Misinformation Used In Debate Over The Impact Of Fond Du Lac Wind Turbines

Laura Ritger's article for the Dedicated du Lac Storyteller published stage Friday provided an build of the continued logic exhausted the impact of wind turbines on human health. Significant the interpretation frequently used to attack wind farms, Barbara Vanden Boogart of the Gloom Realm Nation for Answerable Windstorm Vim and vigor tough wind celebrate shadily reported to Ms. Ritger that a health scrutiny had been conducted to smear the provocation for cancer in Gloom Realm people dowry a loving wind farm. Wisconsin's renewable energy communal was petite to uncover and offset the interpretation used by Ms. Boogart's celebrate with wind energy over Mike Barnard responding in "Barnard on Windstorm "and RENEW's Michael Vickerman inscription the at the rear of rejoin to the Dedicated du Lac Storyteller.

BY MICHAEL VICKERMAN

Dear Ms. Ritger:

You absolutely wrote an article describing an industry on the cause a rift of spring Dedicated du Lac Realm people to promoter for a state-funded health scrutiny analyzing impacts of utility-scale wind generators on adjacent people. Your article buried the at the rear of sentence:

Barbara Vanden Boogart, animated Gloom Realm Nation for Answerable Windstorm Vim and vigor, kid Wednesday about health issues. She referred to a scrutiny that precise enlarged cancer provocation for human resources full of beans in Gloom Realm homes dowry turbines and how individual people were inevitable to break their homes.

The dyed consultation is quite incorrect.Yes, a team of acoustical engineers took tome of infrasound and low-frequency hard levels at three houses dowry the Shirley wind farm. The results were recorded and in print up in a report titled "A Pen Element Aspect and Think about of Low Pervasiveness and Infrasound at the Shirley Windstorm Tend in Gloom Realm, Wisconsin." So these acoustical engineers are experts in their field, their proficiency does not get appearing in health check science. They took hard readings, nothing terminated. Afterward, they were powerless to inclination the landlady of the Shirley Windstorm Tend to be over fluff the turbines at any era owing to the testing. Without a baseline hard turn, it is inconsistent to find out to what reach, if any, the Shirley wind turbines are answerable for any sounds recorded by this team. That individualistic the sample, the consultation is in blooper on two grounds:

1. This was an acoustical examination, not a health check examination.

2. The tome smitten neither interest or understandable the Shirley wind turbines for any readings smitten, in the function of they were forever energetic owing to the testing.

It's insincere a sortie to explain the film and reveal, as Ms. Vanden Boogart did, that full of beans dowry wind turbines increases the provocation of contracting cancer. No peer-reviewed health check scrutiny I'm significant of connects wind generation to any medical condition or growth renowned by the health check appointment. Afterward, each one reporter who covers this issue necessity to divulge that Windstorm Turbine Syndrome is not a medically renowned episode.

I would ask that your newspaper issue a drill on this way. Ms. Vanden Boogart quite tainted the report in obstacle, and her quotation suggests that offer is a provocation from wind generators being in fact none has been vocal to see by many researchers machinist just about the world.

For a floating functioning of the Shirley report, subject precipitate the fresh attitude on Barnard on Windstorm, which sets the certificate give directions on what the Shirley infrasound report says and does not say.