Wind power group slams health review

The Irish wind energy lobby has derided a Department of Health review which gave credence to ‘wind turbine syndrome’, describing the review as “extremely limited and incomplete”.

Wind power group slams health review

In the literature review, deputy chief medical officer, Dr Colette Bonner, concluded wind turbines are not a threat to public health, but that “there is a consistent cluster of symptoms related to wind turbine syndrome which occurs in a number of people in the vicinity of industrial wind turbines”.

She said people at risk of the syndrome “should be treated appropriately and sensitively”.

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