Real Farms and Wind Farms and Sen. Frank Lasee on Health Impacts WWR. Sunday 7/8/12 7pm ET.
Coming up:
On tonight's program, Real Farms and Wind Farms, we will be talking to folks about the impacts of industrial scale wind on agriculture — crops, livestock, etc.
Our first guest will be Anne Gardner from Southwest Victoria in Australia.
Anne and her husband Gus raise some of the finest merinos in the world and are being impacted by a massive industrial wind development.
Our second guest will be Kim Schertz from Hudson, Illinois.
We will talk about groundwater problems in fields, GPS effects for tractors and aircraft, crop dusting dangers, the impacts on share croppers/tenant farmers and and other issues
McLEAN COUNTY - Bright Stalk - Testimony of Mosier and Kelley:
Kevin Ashenbrenner will also be on. He will talk about his experience with turbines impacting his livestock.
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Wisconsin State Senator Frank Lasee will join us to talk about his recent efforts to address the concerns about the health and well being of folks too close to industrial-scale wind turbines in his state.
Here is a bit of his recent op-ed:
How would you feel if you and your kids started feeling sick? What if you, your wife, or your kids suddenly
started having headaches, earaches, nausea, dizziness, and couldn’t sleep well anymore. In your own home.
And you knew it wouldn’t go away?
This is the experience some people have when Industrial Wind Turbines (IWT’s), they’re nearly twice as tall as
the state capitol building, and some are built too close to people’s homes. Wind turbines aren’t necessarily a
bad thing; we should just make sure they aren’t making people sick.
Some people experience very serious symptoms like high blood pressure, tinnitus, ear pressure, vertigo, visual
blurring, heart arrhythmia, irritability, problems with concentration and memory, even panic attacks when they
are near IWT’s. They emit high levels of low frequency noise which makes people sick. When these people
are not around IWT’s, their symptoms vanish. It’s not hard to connect the dots.
At least three families from my district have abandoned the homes where they were raising their children and
planned to retire because IWT’s have made them sick. These houses sit empty now, no one wants to buy
them, and these families are stuck paying two mortgages.
You may be asking yourself, why are wind farm developers allowed to build IWT’s so close to people’s houses.
So close that it makes them sick? Why doesn’t the government prevent this?
We will be asking Senator Lasee what he is proposing to help answer those questions.
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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