Category: Health

You can hear it – and it’s coming here fast

How many times has he said it? How many times has Sydney University's Simon Chapman made the comparison between Wind Turbine Syndrome and the plague of "modern health worries" ... like anxiety about mobile phones for instance? We've lost count. But here's one example. And another. And another. Here's his PowerPoint presentation where he compares … Continue reading You can hear it – and it’s coming here fast

Blaming the victims of Big Wind

This post by Curt Devlin first appeared on http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com. Devlin is a software architect, has worked with Microsoft and is a former teaching fellow in the Tulane University Department of Philosophy. Founded in 1834, Tulane is one of the most highly regarded and selective independent research universities in the United States. During my years at … Continue reading Blaming the victims of Big Wind

Wind energy and the reconstructed smoking milk bottle

It's the transcript of an information session held in Melbourne last year grandly titled "The Future of Wind Energy in Australia". It was organized by The Grattan Institute. Jonathan Upson (pictured) is senior development manager at Infigen Energy. Now, when one of our group relayed his comments, we thought it was a joke. It had … Continue reading Wind energy and the reconstructed smoking milk bottle

Wind farm noise? It’s the sound of lawyers going to court

Try this. Google the words "wind farm lawsuit" and see how many listings you get. When we did this, the result was 897,000. Around the world, plaintiffs are busy. In courts throughout Europe, Canada, the US and Britain a massive number of litigation actions are underway. Many of these relate to health impacts. The University … Continue reading Wind farm noise? It’s the sound of lawyers going to court

These are our questions for Simon Chapman

These are our questions for Simon Chapman, professor in public health at the University of Sydney. 1. From your extensive CV, we notice you don’t have a medically related qualification, or specialize in hearing and hearing disorders, nor are you an acoustic engineer.  Is that correct? 2. In the first paragraph of page 1 in … Continue reading These are our questions for Simon Chapman