{"id":1345,"date":"2014-11-10T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-11-10T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:39:55","slug":"survey-says-wind-farms-dont-hurt-peoples-health-but-some-people-find-them-annoying-environmental-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Survey Says&#8230; wind farms don\u2019t hurt people\u2019s health. But some people find them annoying. | &#8211; Environmental Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/blog\/survey-says-wind-farms-don\u2019t-hurt-people\u2019s-health-some-people-find-them-annoying\">Survey Says&#8230; wind farms don\u2019t hurt people\u2019s health. But some people find them annoying. | &#8211; Environmental Defence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">We now have\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hc-sc.gc.ca\/ewh-semt\/noise-bruit\/turbine-eoliennes\/summary-resume-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\">another study<\/a>\u00a0that confirms that there are no health impacts associated with living near wind farms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">The study, conducted by Health Canada at a cost of $2.1 million, agrees with the findings of the study by\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mohltc\/en\/2010\/05\/new-report-from-ontarios-chief-medical-officer-of-health-says-there-is-no-direct-causal-link-between.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario\u2019s Medical Officer of Health<\/a>, which found no \u201ccausal link between wind turbine noise and adverse health effects.\u201d A\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/psycinfo\/2013-07740-001\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0by the American Psychological Association\u00a0 found the same. So have a myriad of other studies done over the years in multiple jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"><a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hc-sc.gc.ca\/ewh-semt\/noise-bruit\/turbine-eoliennes\/summary-resume-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\">Health Canada\u2019s study<\/a>\u00a0found that there was\u00a0<strong>no relationship<\/strong>\u00a0between wind turbines and reports of trouble sleeping, incidence of self-reported illness, stress, or quality of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">They did, however, find that some people are annoyed by wind farms. In the language of epidemiology, the study found a correlation, but not a causal relationship, between increasing levels of wind turbine noise and \u201cannoyance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey Says&#8230; wind farms don\u2019t hurt people\u2019s health. But some people find them annoying. | &#8211; Environmental Defence. We now have\u00a0another study\u00a0that confirms that there are no health impacts associated with living near wind farms. The study, conducted by Health Canada at a cost of $2.1 million, agrees with the findings of the study by\u00a0Ontario\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[395,884,998],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-health","tag-wind-energy","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}