Windfarms in the News Today

The Cooper report is getting a lot of attention. Today, Cooper will be doing a presentation in Portland to the local community. Meanwhile, Graham Lloyd in today’s Australian, has Cooper attacking Media Watch who will be running a story on wind turbines and on Cooper’s findings. Lloyd has created more interest with his story on Saturday which mentioned a “review” by Paul Schomer and George Hessler. This review, in my opinion, falls very short of the mark and is disappointing coming from these two acousticians. As does Cooper’s claims. Watch Media Watch tonight. This saga will play out against the backdrop of the wind farms and health review released last week by the NHMRC. The NHMRC called for high quality research. The information paper states that “

After careful consideration and deliberation, NHMRC concluded that there is currently no consistent evidence that wind farms cause adverse health effects in humans. This finding reflects the results and limitations of the direct evidence and also takes into account parallel evidence on the health effects of similar emissions from other sources.

On this basis, and given over 20 previous reviews that drew the same conclusion, I don’t believe further research is warranted.

Do you think further research is needed?