Sierra Club questions ill effects of turbines

In a recent presentation to Bruce County council John Bennett, Sierra Club Canada's executive director, shows that a link between well placed wind turbines and health concerns is unfounded.

When talking with hundreds of people who oppose windturbines, Mr. Bennett states that "people just don't want them and then they go looking for reasons. . . I think what happens is that people have aesthetic responses to this and then they go looking for arguments." He also says that wind energy companies in Ontario have been more than willing to buy properties of people living next to wind turbines and are ill — something he says is unheard of in the oil and gas industry.

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