***Official Wind Turbine Syndrome Survivors Thread*** (1 Viewer)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Good gravy...

Highlights...

Sue Hobart, a bridal florist from Massachusetts, couldn't understand why she suddenly developed headaches, ringing in her ears, insomnia and dizziness to the point of falling "flat on my face" in the driveway.

"I thought I was just getting older and tired," said the 57-year-old from Falmouth.

Months earlier, in the summer of 2010, three wind turbines had been erected in her town, one of which runs around the clock, 1,600 feet from her home.

The name was coined by Nina Pierpont, a John Hopkins University-trained pediatrician, whose husband is an anti-wind activist, criticizing the economics and physics of wind power. Pierpont, who lives in upstate New York, calls wind turbine syndrome the green energy industry's "dirty little secret." She self-published "Wind Turbine Syndrome" in 2009, including case studies of people who lived within 1.25 miles of these "spinning giants" who reportedly got sick.

But her wind-turbine research has been criticized for improper peer review (Pierpont reportedly chose her reviewers), and for its methodology -- small sample size, no control group and the fact that she did not examine her subjects or their medical records but interviewed them by phone.

 

[Fritz Funk]

If it weren't for that darned Global Warming, er I mean Climate Change

 

[Apes with Guns]

this has as much science behind it as the vaccine truthers, and look how far that thing has gone.

 

[Lutherman2112]

Falmouth board: Turbine not a nuisance
By Sean F. Driscoll
sdriscoll@capecodonline.com
May 03, 2014

FALMOUTH — The Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals declined to call a privately owned wind turbine a nuisance Thursday night, saying that claims of detrimental health effects because of its operation were insufficient.

The turbine at 82 Technology Park Drive in East Falmouth is owned by Notus Clean Energy LLC. Ed and Sue Hobart, formerly of 476 Blacksmith Shop Road, complained last year about the turbine's noise and the subsequent effects on their health. Building Commissioner Eladio Gore found the turbine did not constitute a nuisance, and the Hobarts appealed his ruling to the zoning board.

Zoning Administrator Sari Budrow said the four members of the board who participated in the discussion Thursday night, which was the conclusion of a hearing that began in March, unanimously found the health complaints were not persuasive.

The Hobarts have sold their house and argued the loss they took on the sale was a direct result of the turbine; however, other factors, including mold and radon on the property, also were found to be at work, Budrow said the board determined.

The Hobarts can appeal the decision to Barnstable Superior Court, but Sue Hobart said Friday she wasn't sure if they could afford to keep fighting. She said she was "floored" by the zoning board's decision, given its recent rulings in favor of residents who live near the two town-owned turbines at the Falmouth wastewater treatment plant.

"I think I just want to go away. I never did a thing to make this happen to me," she said. "Nothing in Falmouth is worth doing anymore."

The town's turbines have been the source of constant controversy since they began operation.

Twice the Zoning Board of Appeals has ruled that those devices, which are larger than the Notus turbine, are a nuisance to neighbors.

In both cases the town has appealed the rulings in court. A judge ordered the turbines' operation curtailed while one of the cases is pending.

 

[Freelove]

If it weren't for that darned Global Warming, er I mean Climate Change

Stupid Frank Luntz and his conservative talking points memos.

 

[Lutherman2112]

Zoning Board notes:

...
D.Haddad – Clancy’s appraisal mentions the size of your property and homes that appear to be affected by the three turbines. He did not pin it down to this one.

D.Haddad – Was radon and mold testing done?

S.Hobart – The last home inspection was in October. The new buyers have accepted it. The house was locked up tight for a long time and the levels for radon have since gone down.
...

 

[Apes with Guns]

maybe if they made Gluten free wind turbines, none of this would happen. or take the vaccines out of them.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Score one for common sense/science.

 

[Lutherman2112]

Score one for common sense/science.

After finding mold and radon, how could these people continue to blame their ailments on the damned turbines?