Out of the 126 returned surveys from people living close to wind turbines in Ontario, 86 people have reported symptoms since the turbines went up near them. Granted, some of these might be happening whether they lived near turbines or not but this is really a shockingly high number. None of these people opposed the turbines when they went up, they welcomed them into their communities.

See more details here: http://windconcernsontario.org

Please read the comments made by people taking this survey…it is really quite sad. If it was your child suffering, would you still be “damn the NIMBYs” at all costs?

Out of the 126 returned surveys from people living close to wind turbines in Ontario, 86 people have reported symptoms since the turbines went up near them. Granted, some of these might be happening whether they lived near turbines or not but this is really a shockingly high number. None of these people opposed the turbines when they went up, they welcomed them into their communities.

See more details here: http://windconcernsontario.org

Please read the comments made by people taking this survey…it is really quite sad. If it was your child suffering, would you still be “damn the NIMBYs” at all costs?

That said, I offer this hard geological fact: Someday this country will run entirely on renewable energy. That’s not wishful thinking, it has to do with the fact that the earth isn’t producing fossil fuels anymore.

The other hard fact is that when (not if) we reach that point we will have to live with a lot less energy than we do now. We will have to collect it from more diffuse sources in smaller quantities and use it in less convenient ways. We will want every source we can possibly get, including large scale wind.

The question we face is not “Wind power: yes or no?”, but “Wind power: How and where?”

There need to be setback standards, noise standards, and environmental impact standards for wind turbines. Nevertheless, there will always be negative effects, just as there are for highways and cars, airports, fossil and nuclear plants, sewage treatment plants, cities, suburbs, and you name it.

Any calls to “stop the madness” of wind turbines ignore the temporary nature of the fossil fuel age. They should be matched with calls to “stop the madness” of all the much greater health risks in our technologically enhanced lives.

That said, I offer this hard geological fact: Someday this country will run entirely on renewable energy. That’s not wishful thinking, it has to do with the fact that the earth isn’t producing fossil fuels anymore.

The other hard fact is that when (not if) we reach that point we will have to live with a lot less energy than we do now. We will have to collect it from more diffuse sources in smaller quantities and use it in less convenient ways. We will want every source we can possibly get, including large scale wind.

The question we face is not “Wind power: yes or no?”, but “Wind power: How and where?”

There need to be setback standards, noise standards, and environmental impact standards for wind turbines. Nevertheless, there will always be negative effects, just as there are for highways and cars, airports, fossil and nuclear plants, sewage treatment plants, cities, suburbs, and you name it.

Any calls to “stop the madness” of wind turbines ignore the temporary nature of the fossil fuel age. They should be matched with calls to “stop the madness” of all the much greater health risks in our technologically enhanced lives.

These are unpredictable intermittent sources of trickles of electricity, so inefficient that the industry would never exist without tax subsidies and mandates to purchase the output. Have we de-valued the health and welfare of our people to the point that we push health-threatening “tax subsidy plantations” on them regardless of the consequences?

We need to stop the madness!

These are unpredictable intermittent sources of trickles of electricity, so inefficient that the industry would never exist without tax subsidies and mandates to purchase the output. Have we de-valued the health and welfare of our people to the point that we push health-threatening “tax subsidy plantations” on them regardless of the consequences?

We need to stop the madness!