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Perhaps many rural residents had the same wake-up call to wind turbines as I did this spring. I didn’t know about the 40 wind turbine TCI development in Adelaide… in fact as far as I knew, the only wind project was a 12 wind turbine proposal by FPL Energy, and we hadn’t received any correspondence from them since their [...]

Barbara Ashbee Interview - Part 1 of 2 January 15th, 2009 Lorrie Gillis interviews Barbara Ashbee in

In this interview by Save Our Skyline Renfrew County (sosrenfrewcounty.wordpress.com), Helen Fraser

University of Calgary researchers provide answers to the mysterious deaths of bats and wind turbine

Shadow flicker- just one issue among many about wind turbines, but this one is visual. How do you react when there is someone flicking the lights on and off in your house? It's irritating: you ask them to quit it. But you can't tell the wind turbine to stop- you don't have control of that switch. 
“When turning with the sun behind them, turbine blades cast moving shadows across the landscape and houses, creating a strobe effect within houses which can be difficult to block out. Some people get dizzy, lose their balance, or become nauseated when they see the movement of shadows or the movement of the huge blades themselves. As with car or sea sickness, such symptoms occur when the three organs of position and movement perception (the inner ear, eyes, and stretch receptors in muscles and joints) do not agree with each other: the eyes perceive movement while the ears and stretch receptors do not.
People with a personal or family history of migraine, or migraine-associated phenomena such as car sickness or vertigo, are more susceptible to these effects. The strobe effect also has the potential, like other flashing lights, to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.”      – Nina Pierpont Wind Turbine Syndrome 8-1-06
Take a look at this clip:

 
Now take a look at our major Highway 402.  A 9 Kilometre stretch of this major highway will have industrial wind turbines along it. 15 wind turbines will be less than 500 metres from the highway. Imagine driving this stretch of road in the morning, with blustery conditions, and the strobe effects of the blades spinning shadow flashing across the highway as you drive....for 9 kilometers. As many know in this area, this section of the highway is particularly bad in the winter, as in, "it was fine driving until I got to the Kerwood exit."
 

15 of these turbines are less then 500m from the highway.
 
There are also 12 residences in the Adelaide project that will have shadow flicker on their homes. The residences th

Dr. Nissenbaum, a radiologist at the Northern Maine Medical Center, conducted interviews with fifteen people living near the industrial wind energy facility in Mars Hill, Maine and on March 25th, 2009 and presented his preliminary findings before the Maine Medical Association. The purpose of the interviews was to investigate and record the health effects on those living within 3500-feet (1066m) of industrial-scale turbines. In light of our elementary school, Adelaide W.G. MacDonald, being surrounded by Industrial Wind Turbines, the quote below highlights our concerns of the health of the children that will sleep and learn in this environment

"I did not even get into the issue of the sixteen children who live there. The WHO (World Health Organization) has identified children, along with the elderly, as being particularly susceptible. This would require a fair amount of time, and special expertise, as children manifest in many ways besides, or instead of, simple sleep disturbance including disturbed learning, acting out, etc."~Dr. Michael A. Nissenbaum

Below are two recent radio interviews with Dr. Nissenbaum: 
Wind Turbines and health Pt 1, an interview

Wind Turbines and health Pt 2, an interview

You can also view his presentation to the Maine Medical Association in March 2009 here: Dr. Nissenbaum presentation

My request for an elevation mainly concerned the lack of notification and recognition of the school and its occupants: the children and staff.
If this interests you,you can download it here:
 Request for Elevation for Adelaide Wind Farm


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