Clinton News Record, 2016-03-09, Page 19Wednesday, March 9, 2016 • News Record 19
Board of Health hears delegation on wind turbine health issues
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The release states, "On March
1, 2016, the Huron County
Health Unit (HCHU) stated it
will investigate the concerns of
residents regarding potential
health effects of wind turbines,
in keeping with their legislative
duty to investigate potential
population health hazards!' It
goes on to state, "The HCHU
made this decision as a result of
correspondence from numerous
residents of Huron County to
the HCHU describing negative
health impacts from living close
to Insudustrial Wind Turbines
(IWTs)."
It was explained that as the
delegation for the Concerned
Residents was requesting infor-
mation to prepare for their pres-
entation on March 3, and the
HCHU had decided to proceed
with the health investigation,
that two meetings were sched-
uled for March 1. Dr. Clark and
Carmen Krogh had been work-
ing together since they were
introduced to each other by Safe
Wind Energy for All Residents
(SWEAR) in 2014. The first meet-
ing on March 1 had HCHU
meeting with Carmen Krogh to
discuss the complaint tracking
form that had been developed
with Public Health Ontario in
2015.
The second meeting had
representatives of the HCHU
meeting with the Concerned
Residents representatives. The
representatives for HCHU were
Dr. Janice Owen Medical
Officer of Health, Dr. Erica
Clark from epidemiology and
Jean -Guy Albert from environ-
mental health. Concerned Res-
idents representatives were
Jeanne Melady, Gerry Ryan,
Carla and Mike Stachura. It
was these representatives of
Concerned Residents who sub-
mitted the information on
these meetings. In this particu-
lar meeting, the HCHU out-
lined their plan to implement
an investigation on health
complaints from IWTs.
The investigation will be in
two phases with the first being
to gather information and the
second being to analyze the
results from phase one to
determine next steps in the
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investigation.
Phase one has the HCHU
developing a survey to track
wind turbine complaints with
the involvement of Carmen
Krogh and Tanya Christidis of
the University of Waterloo. A
small pilot test of the survey
will take place in April. The
goal is to have the survey
launched both electronically
as well as a paper survey in
May.
In order to participate in the
survey, prior registration will
be required with HCHU. This
will involve answering an ini-
tial series of questions which
will not be part of the wind tur-
bine complaint tracking, but
will provide a base of informa-
tion to work from. Once regis-
tered, participants will each
receive a personal code which
will streamline the survey pro-
cess by not requiring partici-
pants to fill in their personal
information each time they
access their survey. The survey
would be completed each time
a participant is experiencing
negative impacts with each
survey session requiring less
than 10 minutes to complete.
Residents who do not have
internet will be supplied with
paper surveys to have their
information entered into the
system later. The information
will be gathered for each per-
son for one year as negative
health effects are often
dependent on seasonal
weather patterns.
The data will be analyzed sea-
sonally to determine trends. For
a transparent process, results
will be made available to the
public on a seasonal basis.
Results will not include personal
information, but be reported as
a grouping of data.
The release stated, "This is the
first county health unit investiga-
tion, in Ontario, regarding indus-
trial wind turbines, where the
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It was standing room only in the Auditorium of the Health Building in Clinton when the Huron County Board of Health allowed a
delegation from the Area -wide Concerned Residents of Huron County give a presentation on the health effects several families
are experiencing and the lack of a method for recourse regarding continuing wind turbine development and operation they have
encountered.
affected resident's health com-
plaints will be tracked long term"
Furthermore, "Dr. Owen
stressed that this is not a
research study. It is an investiga-
tion. It will not prove causality.
The HCHU is required to do an
investigation when there
appears to be a community
environmental health issue. Due
to the number of complaints the
HCHU is receiving from the
community, they believe they
must do an investigation. The
Health Unit is not making a
judgement on wind turbines
with the survey. They are only
investigating whether there is a
potential population health
hazard."
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