Windfarms and Health and Safety
The main effects of living near turbines are :
 
In 2007, Dr Amanda Harry studied the effects on health of living close to wind turbines.
The research showed that 81% felt that their health had been affected and 73% that their quality of life had suffered.
For more in depth information on these health issues and links to research papers see
www.nhwag.co.uk/health
  Most common symptoms   Number suffering these symptoms
from the survey by Dr Amanda Harry
Tiredness/lack of sleep over 70%
Headaches over 70%
Migraine over 25%
Stress anxiety over 50%
Ear/hearing/balance    
Concentration    
Palpitations over 15 %
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
  Factors affecting Health & Safety    
Proximity to turbines    
Wind and speed direction    
Size/power of turbines    
Pre existing medical conditions    
Not everybody is affected to the same degree    
A Swedish Experience

Wind turbines produce nothing but a nightmare for neighbourhoods: conflicts between former friends and within families, stress, ill health ... I left my home because of a wind turbine placed 650 m from my house. One day in 1998 mine and my neighbours' lives changed dramatically. The noise is a torture."

Lotta Nilsson, Laholm Sweden
An English Experience

...8 turbines of 100m became operational in the summer 2006. By May 2007 we were forced to abandon our home as a place to sleep and live...

Jane Davies, retired Nurse and Health Visitor, Spalding S Lincs
930m and downwind from a windfarm
An English Experience

We did not object to the windfarm in the planning stage as we had no reason to think that there would be any issues for us and we believed, at that time, that wind power was good way of meeting the energy gap.
As a result of our experiences, ...
...we have been invited to talk to in excess of 40 communities across the UK where windfarms are proposed

Jane Davies, retired Nurse and Health Visitor, Spalding S Lincs
930m and downwind from a windfarm
Country Guardian

Wind farms 'make people sick who live up to a mile away'

An article about the effects of low frequency noise on people living near wind farms.
The Caithness Campaign

The statistics are at www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk

The Caithness Campaign has collected and catalogued accident statistics over a long period of time.
An Australian Experience

Electricity Nightmares

A powerful presentation from Australian TV of the effects on residents living near a Spanish built wind farm.
     

Appleton Wiske sponsors NHWAG