The Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-02-24, Page 66 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Huron Health Unit to hear presentation on industrial wind turbines
Mike Stachura
Goderich
On Thursday, March 3,
2016 @ 9:00 a.m. at 77722
London Rd. in Clinton,
ON., Jeanne Melady and
Gerry Ryan will be making
a presentation at the
Huron County Health Unit
on industrial wind tur-
bines and the adverse
health impacts experi-
enced by Huron County
residents. This meeting is
open to the public. Please
show your support by
attending.
Shaun Gregory from the
Huron Expositor wrote an
article in November 2015
entitled, "Residents say
some children are alleg-
edly receiving nosebleeds
from wind turbines." The
article detailed a meeting
between the
wind company and the
community in the St.
Columban Wind project. It
was standing room only as
the testimonials from 14
households were read
aloud and projected onto a
screen.
In response, Huron
County affected residents
have been reaching out to
one another and relaying
similar experiences and
forming informal support
groups. In Huron County,
there are 6 Industrial
Wind projects consisting
of over 300 industrial wind
turbines - St. Columban,
Kingsbridge 1, K2, Varna
Bluewater, Goshen, and
Grand Bend.
What was remarkable
about the St. Columban
community meeting was
that the wind company
admitted the health
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effects reported were
common occurrences for
most of the wind projects
throughout the province.
Even Health Canada,
and the Canadian Wind
Energy Association (Can -
WEA) have acknowledged
that people living in the
vicinity of wind turbines,
at the distances permitted
by the Ontario govern-
ment, can result in a sig-
nificant percentage of res-
idents being highly
annoyed by audible noise,
and in particular low fre-
quency noise - a tonal sig-
nal of sharply rising and
falling pulses. This con-
tributes to well-known
noise stress effects includ-
ing: sleep disturbance,
psychological distress,
headache, tinnitus, ear
pressure, dizziness, ver-
tigo,
nausea, visual blurring,
tachycardia, irritability,
problems with concentra-
tion and memory, panic,
episodes of internal pulsa-
tion or quivering when
awake or asleep. In addi-
tion, it is recognized that
chronic strong annoyance
can lead to an increase in
disease.
A letter by the HCHU to
a family with seven chil-
dren under the age of 18,
that began experiencing
many of the above symp-
toms when the turbines
became operational, was
that the HCHU would
"stay up to date on the lat-
est evidence" and
expressed that it would
take many years of better
measurements and of the
people exposed to deter-
mine cause and effect.
Currently, the health
unit has no plans to gather
and track health com-
plaints of local residents
living within these electri-
cal generation facilities.
There is no mechanism in
place to determine the
scope and severity of the
health problems being
experienced by Huron
County residents living in
close proximity to poorly
sited turbines.
As a community, it is
unacceptable to continue
to put our "heads in the
sand" and pretend these
people do not exist. They
are our friends, family and
neighbors. Ignoring the
health impacts being
experienced will only lead
to further negative emo-
tions including anger, dis-
appointment, dissatisfac-
tion, withdrawal,
helplessness, depression,
anxiety, agitation, or
exhaustion.
The presenters will be
requesting the formation
of a working wind turbine
committee to include
affected residents living in
close proximity to indus-
trial turbines. The goal
being to develop a method
to accurately track com-
plaints, produce a study to
determine the scope and
severity of the problem in
Huron County, and to
develop solutions.
For more information,
or to connect with health
affected residents in your
area, please contact:
huronwindaction@gmail.
com or phone (519)
529-7624.
Please show your sup-
port by attending on
March 3, 2016 @ 9 am @
the HCHU.
Over 600 people attend Dungannon -area Brindley Snowmobile Day
Shag Campbell
Dungannon News
The weather might have
been frosty but that didn't
stop over 600 hardy folks
from attending Ron Brind-
ley's Snowmobile Fun Day on
Feb. 14. The avid sportsmen
came from near and far.
Jessica Adams was kept busy
at the grill cooking sausages
and hot dogs. There was also
coffee, doughnuts and apple
fritters for the hungry crowd to
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munch on and warm up with.
There was also afresh baked
goods and sandwiches.
Somebody must like snow-
mobilers because the sun
was shining with very little
wind. A welcome relief after
the previous couple of days of
storms and road closures.
Around here you have to
get up real early to see the
neighbours getting off to
work even when the roads
seem almost impassable.
On Feb. 15 Shag Campbell
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got two leghorn roosters from
Lynn at the Carlow Store. He
had to pick them up in St. Hel-
en's and did so with the help of
Lynn's husband Serge. He then
took them to Menno Miller's
where he got stuck in the lane
way four times in two feet of
snow. Finally got out and deliv-
ered the roosters. They were
happy to get out of the bags
and went to see the Banty
hens. Too bad Shag didn't have
four-wheel drive on the truck
The Miller family were busy
NWMO Learn More Centre
The Township of Huron -Kinloss is one of nine communities
involved in a process of learning about Adaptive Phased
Management (APM), Canada's plan for the safe, long-term
management of used nuclear fuel. The Nuclear Waste
Management Organization is working collaboratively with the
community to advance preliminary assessment studies.
Learn about APM, meet NWMO staff, ask questions and offer
your thoughts. Drop in to the NWMO community office and
Learn More Centre in Ripley.
Everyone is welcome.
grinding meat. Albert Shetler
came in to get Menno to help
him in the afternoon.
In the evening Shag and
Joan visited Joe and Lois
Psutka for tea and Saska-
toon berry muffins.
Gas in St, Catharines is
down to 64.3 cents per litre.
Sure wish it would get
down that low here.
Birthday wishes going
out to Brett Alton who will
be 12 years old on the 25 of
Feb. How time flies.
NWMO Learn More Centre (Huron -Kinloss)
80 Huron Street, Ripley ON
519.386.6711
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