Recommendations

The Government would be prudent to institute an immediate and mandatory minimum buffer of 2kmbetween a dwelling and an industrial wind turbine, and with greater separation from a dwelling for a wind turbine with greater than 2MW installed capacity.

There is a need for a multidisciplinary team of experts – independent of the wind energy industry – to assess clinically and to investigate epidemiologically, the health impacts on people where industrial wind turbines have been located too close to their dwellings.

Governments are appealing to the social and ethical conscience of commerce to become carbon neutral and mitigate the effects of global warming. In an appeal to the ethical and social conscience of bankers and investment institutions, we recommend that before providing finance to wind turbine developments that are near family homes, the Investors should demand from the developers a
Guarantee Bond that unreservedly guarantees that the operation of the wind turbines will not violate the families’ right to respect for their homes and private lives. This would be a prudent caution to take in order to lessen the risk of potential environmental and medical claims at some future time.

With an annotated review of the research and related issues.

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