Lakeshore Advance, 2013-04-24, Page 9•
Bluewater asks
County Health Unit for
health study on wind
turbines
Melissa Murray
The Clinton News Record
At Bluewater's April 2 meet-
ing, councillors passed a
motion to ask the Huron
County I lealth Unit to under-
take an independent health
study on industrial wind
turbines.
In a phone interview last
week, Councillor John
Gillespie said the request
would take the form of a letter
to the health Unit, which will
be trade public after mnici-
pal staff draft it.
"We'll wait and see what
comes from the health Unit,"
he said adding, the organiza-
tion's mandate says it will
investigate concerns of the
community through research
studies, but ultimately it will
be up to the organization to
decide if it is something they
can do.
"It was an idea I had in rela-
tion to the role of what the
I lealth Unit might be able to
do in relation to industrial
wind turbines," explained
Gillespie.
Ai
It was an idea I
had in relation to
the role of what
• the Health Unit
might be able to do
in relation to
industrial wind
turbines
— Councillor
John Gillespie
"With the mounting evi-
dence locally and in south-
western Ontario with resi-
dents living close to wind
turbines having issues like
sleep deprivation because of
low frequency noise and
shadow flicker, I thought it
would be good to examine the
issue on a broader scale," he
said.
Bluewater has three wind
turbine developments pro-
posed for the municipality,
which are at various stages in
the Ministry of the Environ-
ment's renewable energy
approval process.
"It was appropriate to ask
under the circumstances," he
added.
While council was fully sup-
portive of the notice of motion
brought up last month,
Gillespie said the motion was
not passed unanimously
because of concern about the
cost for undertaking such a
major study.
With other municipalities
and research institutions
looking into the effects of
Industrial Wind Turbines on
residents' health, Gillespie felt
it would be important for the
area to have a local study of
their own residents.
"'Phis continues to he a big
issue and we need more infor-
mation" he said.
Dr. Nancy Cameron, from
the Huron County Health
Unit, said they have received
the request from Bluewater
and they will he putting
together a report to go before
their board at the May `) meet-
ing because the request is out-
side the scope of their day-to-
day work.
"It would require additional
staff and funding. We are a
very small health unit and
we're not a research centre,"
she said in a phone interview.
The I lealth !)nit's position
has been to support the work
of Dr. Arlene King, Chief Med-
ical Officer of 1 lealth Ontario,
who has found through her
review no evidence of a link
between turbines and adverse
health affects. Studies like the
one Bluewater is asking for
are usually done by provincial
health organizations because
they have the research capa-
bilities, Cameron explained.
President of Bluewater
Against 'Turbines, Dave Grif-
fiths, applauded the move by
Bluewater council, especially
because he and his members
are losing faith in the outcome
of the federal health study that
was announced last summer
to be completed in 2104.
"That study is a joke. We
don't know where they are
going with the questions and
people are really upset," he
said.
While some wind turbine
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