Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of 41 Citizen’s Groups from across 27 Counties/Districts in Ontario

Information Regarding the Ian Hanna Legal Challenge 

Adverse Health Effects of Industrial Wind Turbines

Ontario Regulations 359/09 Green Energy Act

One Page Summary – Ontario Wind Regulations

List of Wind Projects in Ontario 

Health Survey  WindVOiCe©

Victims  Call 1-800-268-6060 (24 hr MOE Hotline) to report excessive noise

Contact Us:  windconcerns@gmail.com

Mike Crawley, President and CEO of International Power Canada, Inc. (formally AIM Powergen) is also President of the Federal Liberal Party (Ontario).   To date, this company has refused to help any of the residents who are seriously suffering in the Erie Shores complex.

Mike Crawley – president@lpco.ca       Mike Crawley – mcrawley@aimpowergen.com

Letter from Resident of the Lake Erie Shores Wind Facility:

Before my medical appointment, Dr. McMurtry also arranged to have Mike Crawley and David Timm meet with him at St. Joseph’s’ Hospital in London [I was included] to ask them face to face, point blank, “what they were prepared to do to extricate NVoIWT’s from the toxic environment caused by the Low Frequency Vibrations [LFV's] being generated by the IWT’s?” – [testing had been done by Rick James].  Mike and David left the meeting, Aug 26, saying “they would study their notes and consult with their colleagues before replying”.  We have heard NOTHING for three months.

 

So, NVoIWT’s have taken to leaving their homes for as long as is possible within each family’s circumstances just to get away from the LFV’s.  One of our members has been able to get away to Australia, some stay with relatives for 3/4 days every other weekend or weeks on end, some work out of the area and get 10/12 hour “breaks”, others just manage 36 hour overnight escapes sporadically. 

What we NEED is to get away permanently.  Our health will just continue to deteriorate.

By Mary Golem Owen Sound Sun Times

Arran-Elderslie council wants to join forces with neighbouring municipalities to try to stop construction of large wind turbines in the area.

Council will invite councillors from both Chatsworth and Georgian Bluffs to meet in Chesley the first week of December “to form a plan of attack,” Elderslie ward Coun. Mark Davis said Monday.

“Everyone is wondering what to do, and everyone is waiting on someone else to act,” Davis said. “We need to do something . . . these things will affect us all.

“I guess the ultimate control is for farmers not to sign any options,” he said and added that he knows of landowners “who thought it wasn’t a bad idea a few months ago that are now changing their minds. There’s a huge percentage of our ratepayers in Arran-Elderslie that don’t want them and we’ve got to do something.”

Spain’s Self-inflicted Economic Wounds from “Green Jobs” Regimes

…for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, we can be confident that on average 2.2 jobs will be destroyed, to which we have to add those jobs that the non-subsidized investment would have created.

 Study of Effects of Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Wind Concerns Ontario held its first annual general meeting Sunday, November 22 in Orillia, Ontario. Over 75 members and group leaders from 42 counties and municipalities were welcomed by Wind Concerns Ontario president John Laforet. Mr. Laforet paid tribute to the amount accomplished by the coalition since established on October 25, 2008.

Toronto Sun
The government needs to explain why it would agree to pay a private company nearly three times what it pays publicly owned Ontario Power Generation for hydro electricity, the official opposition demanded yesterday.

“Why would your government be willing to pay a private power producer up to 8 cents a kilowatt hour, causing ever-increasing power prices to our consumers, when our regulated power provider, Ontario Power Generation, only receives 3.2 cents per kilowatt hour for their regulated hydraulic resources? Why?” Progressive Conservative energy critic John Yakabuski said during question period.

Nina Pierpont’s Book “Wind Turbine Syndrome” is now available.    Click Here to purchase.

Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD, Wind Turbine Syndrome:  A Report on a Natural Experiment (Santa Fe, NM:  K-Selected Books, 2009), 294 pp.  Paperback, $18 USD. 

“Impressive.  Interesting.  And important.”  –-Professor Lord (Robert) May, PhD, of Oxford University OM AC Kt FRS. 

“Dr. Pierpont’s astute collection of observations should motivate a well-controlled, multi-site, multi-institutional prospective study.” —F. Owen Black, MD, FACS, Senior Scientist and Director of Neuro-Otology Research, Legacy Health System, Portland, Oregon

They’re Not Green Parts 1 & 2

Globe and Mail

by Gwyn Morgan, retired founding CEO of EnCana Corp.

Access to affordable energy is essential to our way of life, making the upcoming gathering of world leaders in Copenhagen profoundly important. Yet few Canadians possess the level of “energy literacy” needed to understand what’s at stake. Here are a few questions that will help test your own energy literacy.

What is the fastest-growing form of global energy use?

If you said electricity, you’re right. And because coal is the major fuel for electricity, power generation contributes about 21 per cent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, compared with land, sea and air transportation at 11 per cent, according to International Energy Agency data.

American Thinker

It seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields.  Words can’t adequately express my astonishment. 

Amid the thousands of files apparently misappropriated from Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) last week sit two documents on the subject of the unit’s funding.  One is a spreadsheet (pdj_grant_since1990.xls) logging the various grants CRU chief PD Jones has received since 1990. 

Orangeville

Orangeville Banner

The Issue:
Industrial wind turbines

Our View:
Province must take a closer look at concerns

It’s hard to question the fact some people experience difficulties while living near industrial wind turbines.

A litany of health complaints — sleeplessness, nausea, headaches and anxiety, among other things — have been reported in Dufferin, elsewhere in Ontario and around the world.

SPECIAL REPORT  By Richard Vivian  Orangeville Banner

Provincial plans to create a streamlined approval process for renewable energy projects have been met with a bevy of objections — from proponents, municipal leaders, and those who believe wind turbines negatively impact human health — and a court challenge.  Read entire article here

Huron-Kinloss Mayor Mitch Twolan

By Don Crosby, The Owen Sound Sun Times

Bruce County is calling on the province to study the health effects of wind turbines.

“The province has stated that they are not going to do a health study. We’re going to encourage them with a letter hoping that they will do an independent study for the health concerns that are out there now and possibly down the road,” said Huron-Kinloss Mayor Mitch Twolan.

by Rick Conroy   Wellington Times
“The DND air traffic control radar at 8 Wing Trenton is essential to the safe transportation of Canadian Forces cargo and personnel in direct support of Canada’s Defence Commitments.”

Already staggering through insolvency, Skypower’s Byran wind energy project suffered yet another, perhaps fatal blow late in September when the Department of National Defence (DND) advised the company that it would not recommend or support the project as proposed.

CBC News

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking Ottawa to fund more scientific research into the potential health effects of wind turbines.

The organization has asked the government to focus on two areas: low-frequency noise and electrical disturbances from industrial-scale wind developments. The issue was raised in September by three municipalities from Ontario at a national board of directors meeting.

Richard Blackwell    Globe and Mail

‘People have good reason to be cautious’ when looking at renewable energy projects, lawyer Eric Gillespie says

On the surface, it looked like bad news for dozens of farmers in Prince Edward County, about 200 kilometres east of Toronto, who had leased portions of their land to SkyPower Corp. for a large wind power project.

SkyPower filed for bankruptcy protection in August, after which a creditor was able to register construction liens against about 150 parcels of those properties.

By Gillian Cormier AllNovaScotia.com
13 November 2009

One of SkyPower’s creditors is looking to put liens on properties owned by people who planned to lease land for a wind farm in Digby.

The Terrain Group Inc, based in Dartmouth, filed a statement of claim this week against SkyPower and 17 landowners, representing 14 plots of land in Gulliver’s Cove, Digby county.

The Terrain Group claims it is owed $42,950 for professional surveying services on the lands.

Upper Ottawa Valley Daily Observer

The article in the Thursday, Oct. 27 edition of The Daily Observer, ‘Energy solution blowing in the wind,’ is an example of alternative energy propaganda funded by wind farm companies and promoted by environmental lobby groups.

Mr. Berton has nothing but praise for Spain and its supposedly 13 per cent production figure, but what he doesn’t tell you is that although the wind is free, the means to produce power from it is twice as expensive as conventional power plants. Furthermore, Spain is now realizing how inefficient wind power is.

England is on the brink of a blackout in about seven years because of its commitment to wind power. The British have spent billions of pounds installing 2,000 wind turbines that barely produce one per cent of the power needed.

by Kent Hawkins November 13, 2009    Master Resource

Editor note: This post will be followed by Part II on additional technical documentation. Mr. Hawkins’s study is presented to increase the interest in this highly important,  politically sensitive issue of incremental pollution from firming up industrial wind power.

Integrating random, highly variable wind energy into an electricity system presents substantial problems that subvert wind technology’s ability to offset the use of fossil fuels–and avoid air emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2). Measuring this accurately is important because many believe that wind projects significantly reduce such emissions.

Leo Mendonca says he’s been plagued by feelings of deep-set anxiety since the turbines started turning in his neighbourhood

By Richard Vivian Orangeville Banner

In the first of a three-part series, reporter Richard Vivian investigates the health-related controversies surrounding turbines 

It was another restless night in a long string of interrupted sleep. Amaranth’s Leo Mendonca didn’t feel quite right, like something was wrong, but he didn’t know what, or why.

When he got out of bed, he was struck by a wave of nausea. He made his way out to the kitchen of the 8th Line home for a drink of water, but that didn’t calm his stomach.

Thinking some fresh air may do the trick, he headed out to the garden. There, he looked up and saw what he now believes is the source of his troubles … an industrial-sized wind turbine about 600 metres away, and many more within sight.      Read entire article here

Northumberland News   By Al Matthews

This is in regard to the ‘Green Energy Bandwagon’ and the media’s comments that go something like, “It’s not as if wind power is controversial.”

Wrong, wrong, wrong. More than 4,000 (some say as high as 7,000) of these massive, noisy, 400-foot high industrial behemoths are being erected in the backyards of people living in developed communities throughout south central Ontario, for no practical reason whatsoever.

Links to Mafia?     By Guy Dinmore Financial Times
Italian finance police, mounting an operation code named “Gone with the wind”, yesterday said they had arrested two of the country’s most prominent businessmen in the wind energy sector.

Police said the charges related to fraud involved in obtaining public subsidies to construct wind farms. They are also investigating the sale of wind farms to foreign companies.

Oreste Vigorito, head of the IVPC energy company and president of Italy’s National Association of Wind Energy, was arrested on Tuesday in Naples. Vito Nicastri, a Sicilian business associate, was arrested in Alcamo, Sicily.

Two other men were arrested in Sicily and the Naples area, while 11 others were charged but not arrested. 

Toronto Star

 It is discouraging to see the executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment providing cover for the wind power industry. The environment does not consist merely of landscape but of people.

It is not enough to say that windpower “must be part of our energy mix.” The question is, what part?  People are suffering.  If Ontario’s chief medical officer of health knows of no scientific evidence “to date” of a causal connection between wind turbine noise and adverse health effects, then he or she is derelict in duty.  There is more than enough expert opinion and action in other jurisdictions to warrant an independent investigation.

By MICHAEL DEN TANDT The Owen Sound Sun Times

George Smitherman, say it ain’t so.  Just kidding.

Smitherman has long been considered one of Ontario’s strongest politicians.  He’s smart, charismatic and has the courage of his convictions. He knows you can’t make a soufflé without breaking an egg or two.

Which is why it’s a really good thing for the people of Ontario that Smitherman is finally (as has long been rumoured and denied) setting his cap for the mayoralty of Toronto.  And leaving the rest of us alone.

Land Locked!

Rough outline of Skypower’s Bryan Project before the company filed for creditor protection

Wellington Times – Prince Edward County, Ontario

Related: Stantec Construction Property Liens list

About 150 properties that make up the Byran wind energy project, part of the failed Skypower Corporation in the northeast corner of Prince Edward County, have had construction liens placed upon their land and registered on title by a creditor to whom Skypower owes a quarter million dollars. Construction liens are legal claims on a project to ensure a builder, tradesperson or consultant gets paid for his or her work.

Worse for the property owners, these construction liens have been perfected through a special court order that was granted last Thursday.

At best this means the property owners will be limited, until the liens are discharged, as to what they can do with their encumbered property. It may be difficult or impossible to refinance mortgages, borrow money using the land as collateral, finance new buildings on the property or even purchase seed and fertilizer for the property as long as the liens remain in place.

At worst the landowners could be on the hook to pay Skypower’s creditor, Jacques Whitford Stantec, the $265,000 it says it is owed by Skypower.

Toronto Star

Wind is not replacing coal; gas is.

Natural gas will need to be burned in gas-fired power plants whether the demand on the grid is high or low and whether or not the wind is blowing. Gas is replacing coal, to be burned to provide base and intermediate load. It also provides load-following and back up to the wind generators because the nuclear plants cannot respond quickly enough, and stored water is a valuable commodity not to be wasted.

The Samsung Group is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in South Korea

Toronto Star - A controversial deal between the province and Samsung Group will not die just because its main champion, George Smitherman, is leaving Queen’s Park, insists Premier Dalton McGuinty.

As first disclosed by the Star, McGuinty’s cabinet is split over the provisional agreement with the South Korean industrial giant to manufacture renewable energy equipment like wind turbines and develop wind and solar farms here.

Posted By MARY GOLEM, Owen Sound Sun Times

An Arran-Elderslie councillor’s attempts to control the construction of large industrial wind turbines in the municipality has hit more roadblocks.

Elderslie ward Coun. Mark Davis said yesterday he’s “getting really tired of hearing what we can’t do” to control the construction of wind turbines which he calls “intrusive” and “an eyesore” on the rural landscape.

Tevy Pilc, Toronto Observer

When Toronto Hydro announced on Oct. 23 it had approved building a wind research platform on Lake Ontario, it was supposed to be a vital step toward the development of sustainable energy in the province.

But since then, opposition and uncertainty have left these accomplishments up in the air. The gang-up on Deputy Premier George Smitherman by Ontario cabinet ministers in a meeting last Wednesday prevented a bid by Samsung to build wind turbines in Ontario.  This has not only disrupted building progress, which was slated to begin last week a few kilometres off the Scarborough Bluffs, but it has also exposed the lack of legitimate planning in the entire project.

Smitherman Quits Ontario Cabinet
CTV Toronto

Some analysts believe that Smitherman’s announcement was hastened by a recent dust-up at Queen’s Park, in which Smitherman was confronted about his dealings with the Samsung Group.

Smitherman had been courting the South Korean industrial giant for a deal to build a multi-billion dollar wind turbine facility in the province.

However, McGuinty stalled the agreement amid concern that too much provincial cash would be used to subsidize the deal.

During one caucus meeting, Smitherman was reportedly attacked by his colleagues about the deal’s specifics.

They’re Not Green Parts 3 & 4

How can we give you straight answers when we have no idea what we're doing?

The Ontario government needs to start giving us some straight answers on ‘green’ energy

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, TORONTO SUN

Normally, I don’t write about problems I encounter in getting information from government because I feel it’s too “inside baseball” for readers.

I’m making an exception because I think this incident illustrates the problems besieged opponents of industrial wind turbines living in communities across Ontario are encountering in getting straight answers from their own government.

Notes to Help Understand the Concept

One often hears the term “setbacks” used for wind turbines, but the concept is not always well understood or explained.  These rough notes are intended to help readers understand the term “setbacks”.  They are a first draft, and will be revised as time permits.

There are safety setbacks, and there are noise setbacks.  They are not the same.

[Note:  The developer of this project is AIM Powergen whose CEO, Mike Crawley is also President of the Federal Liberal Party (Ontario)]

—Tracy Whitworth, Schoolteacher (11/5/09)

Clear Creek, Ontario.  Quiet, peaceful.  The sound of the lake; the overhead passing of migrating geese; tundra swans in the early spring.  Deer and wild turkeys.  Clear starry skies.  Silent except for the sounds of the crickets and bullfrogs.  The sight of a small country church across the way; the church I remember attending as a young girl with my Grandmother.

Sounds nice, doesn’t it? That was my retreat of 11 years.  A place I called home, a place I loved, a place I miss. It was my heaven on earth.

Smitherman's Deal Blowing Apart

Toronto Star    Finally, our premier is listening to more level-headed people in the cabinet. He should have done this long ago. The “green energy” plans his energy and infrastructure minister have presented have set the government against the people it governs, threatened whole communities, make little or no economic or environmental sense, give the appearance that the government is in bed with the wind energy companies, create lucrative opportunities for expensive consultants, and in some cases endanger the public’s health. It is an ill-conceived plan that has removed people’s rights to legitimately object to the actions of their government.

Congratulations to the Liberal cabinet members who finally found the courage to speak up. One hopes this will mean that Dalton McGuinty will rethink his government’s entire approach to green energy and start exploring a range of viable options instead of dumping wind turbines on unwilling communities.

Patricia Spindel, Toronto

ADAM RADWANSKI  Globe and Mail

“…there’s some suggestion that the risk he’s prepared to take – preferential access to valuable transmission capacity, and maybe an investment return above the going rate, to a foreign company with limited experience in developing wind power – is motivated by his eagerness to show quick returns on alternative energy investment before he leaves office.”

George Smitherman is arguably the most powerful minister in Canada’s largest provincial government. He is also a heavyweight contender to become the next mayor of Canada’s largest city.

It’s not a bad position to be in. But it’s increasingly obvious that Mr. Smitherman – who, in addition to being Ontario’s Deputy Premier, serves as its Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Renewal – can’t remain in it for much longer.

Joanna Bull & Krystyn Tully, Waterkeeper.ca Weekly

Earlier this year, Ontario introduced new legislation known as the Green Energy Act. The Act is intended to support the development of the renewable energy industry in Ontario. In so doing, it changes the government approvals process for “green energy” projects by changing a variety of statutes, regulations, policies, and procedures.

TbNewsWatch

A group against a proposed Neebing wind farm is gaining momentum, and is now asking citizens to sign a petition to help fight the Horizon Energy Inc. plan.

More than 200 people packed the large meeting room at the Nor’Wester Resort Hotel Tuesday evening. The crowd was led to the meeting by the newly formed group called the Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee.

“Our main goal was to try to learn what was happening and to get people to know what the ramifications of what is being proposed are,” said Irene Bond, member of the Escarpment Protection Committee. “We found very few people knew.”

Without a doubt our resistance, good research and informed members are helping us change peoples’ minds when it comes to industrial wind power and its flaws.

Being on the side of truth is always helpful – if at times painful.

However, while we have come a long way in pushing our government to marginally addressing our concerns about industrial wind projects, we have a very long way to go in getting them to agree to our demands.

Resolutions in detail below list

1. Township of Chatsworth **NEW**
2. City of Kawartha Lakes **NEW**
3. Township of East Garafaxa (Dufferin County)
4. Township of Warwick (Lambton County)
5. Municipality of Bluewater (Huron County)
6. City of Ottawa
7. Municipality of Huron East Resolution(Huron County) 
8. Township of Montague  (Lanark County)
9. Town of Blue Mountains  (Grey County)  

No one asked for this.  Nobody looked to have their life and homes exposed in the news, trying to explain how the most promising form of renewable energy was causing such destruction of their family. 

Sleep deprivation, headaches, migraines, heart palpitations, tinnitus, pressure in the ears, sores that won’t heal, dangerously high blood pressure and the list goes on.  This was not the plan that any of these quiet and unassuming rural families had in mind, but this is what they got.  And countless months later it continues. 

Nobody wanted to get sick; nobody wanted to be forced to leave their home, the place they raised their children, the place they intended to live out their retirement.  Not one of them asked for this. In almost all cases, these symptoms were non-existent before the start up of the wind farm.

Charles Sousa Liberal Mpp Mississauga talking with Protesters

‘Twas the day ‘fore democracy disappeared from our town;
Wind turbine salesmen were running around
With cheques in their pockets and greed in their eyes,
With hopes that the farmers would believe their slick lies.

After dumping big bucks into Liberal coffers,
Wind companies waited for huge payback offers
To put up the turbines on plains and on hills
And pass them off as efficient windmills.

They’ve done their own research; it works better that way,
Since government’s too stargazed to check what they say.
They’ve grabbed what they could while the gettin’ was good
And then “poof – disappeared!” from this neighbourhood.

Dalton’s throwing them money with his plan, oh so fine.
Just sell them your soul and sign on the line.
They’ve taken your land by the rights of refusal.
You gave up your say.  Yes, you’ve been bamboozled!

SUN MEDIA Sault Star

Local wind farm opponents vowed yesterday to keep pushing for independent studies into the effects wind turbines have on people.

Ontario legislators rejected Bruce- Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch’s call to halt industrial wind farm development until the province’s top doctor can assure the government turbines don’t harm people living nearby.

But defeating Murdoch’s resolution won’t stop growing opposition in rural Ontario, or mounting questions over how the big machines affect people’s health, wind turbine opponents said.

Toronto Star

The Ontario government’s multi-billion-dollar wind turbine deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group is in jeopardy after a power play in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet, the Toronto Star has learned.

Sources say rival ministers opposed to Deputy Premier George Smitherman’s pet scheme, which they fear will mean “billions” of dollars in subsidies to Samsung, have convinced McGuinty to stall the landmark deal first reported in the Star on Sept. 27.

On October 29, 2009, the following MPPs voted to not protect your health because the Ontario Liberal Party has now stripped your rights to complain.   

Aggelonitis, Sophia	Colle, Mike	McNeely, Phil	Sergio, Mario
Albanese, Laura	Dhillon, Vic	Moridi, Reza	Smith, Monique
Arthurs, Wayne	Dickson, Joe	Pendergast, Leeanna	Sousa, Charles
Balkissoon, Bas	Hoskins, Eric	Phillips, Gerry	Van Bommel, Maria
Berardinetti, Lorenzo	Jaczek, Helena	Rinaldi, Lou	Wilkinson, John
Bisson, Gilles	Kwinter, Monte	Ruprecht, Tony	Zimmer, David
Brown, Michael A.	Mangat, Amrit	Sandals, Liz

Read Hansard Transcript Here

MPP Phil McNeely, Hell-bent on Vandalizing Rural Ontario

Posted By Bill Henry Sun Times

Local wind farm opponents vowed yesterday to keep pushing for independent studies into the effects wind turbines have on people.

Ontario legislators rejected Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch’s call to halt industrial wind farm development until the province’s top doctor can assure the government turbines don’t harm people living nearby.

Note:   During Tabun’s speech, several members of the gallery left in tears as they could not bear the revictimization from yet another mindless politician.

Peter Tabuns: You rural people are collatoral damage - Deal with it!

By Antonella Artuso, Sun Media Queen’s Park Bureau London Free Press

TORONTO — Tory MPP Bill Murdoch’s resolution calling for a moratorium on new wind turbines in Ontario pending confirmation that there are no adverse health effects on humans stalled in the legislature.

Murdoch said his resolution was drafted in response to concerns about wind power raised by hundreds of people in his riding and across the province.

“I’m disappointed and where the people go from here I don’t know,” Murdoch said yesterday. “The government of the day has decided that they don’t count by turning down my resolution.”

The Ontario government shouldn’t proceed with its ambitious wind energy plan until it gets the official green light from the chief medical officer of health, Murdoch said, adding people have a right to know if the wind turbines near their homes will make them sick.

You shut your mouth, NIMBY! Don't ruin this for me.

Posted By MICHAEL DEN TANDT  Calgary Sun

The eHealth boondoggle, on its own, is more than enough to split 416 in two years. Every citizen in every emergency waiting room with a sick child today knows that a billion health-care dollars were wasted on computer consultants over the past seven years. That’s all it will take.

If that weren’t enough, there’s wind power. It’s not an issue in the cities. But in rural Ontario, opposition to industrial wind power has reached a slow boil that will not go away. It will only build. McGuinty-Smitherman’s strange insistence on driving these projects forward despite widespread, credible reports that living near a big wind turbine is bad for your health, will crush the Liberals absolutely in the country. Even if they eventually relent and call for more study, which they likely will, the damage will have been done.

Posted By Bruce Urquhart, OXFORD SENTINEL-REVIEW

Intended as an information meeting for township residents, the evening became a series of dire warnings on the alleged adverse health effects of industrial wind turbines.

The evening’s three speakers focused on the symptoms of Wind Turbine Syndrome, a medical catchall of signs that include excruciating headaches, tinnitus, nausea, sleep deprivation and similar debilitating complaints. With a growing number of health-care professionals, researchers and engineers convinced that industrial wind turbines contribute to these symptoms, speaker Carmen Krogh reiterated her position that more epidemiological studies need to be done before further wind-farm developments are approved.