WIND: Local residents regarded less than butcher's meat

A Polish study, validated by the scientific community in July 2015 ( "The Effect of Varying Distances from the Wind Turbine on Meat Quality of Growing-Finishing Pigs" Karwowska.M. & Al) comes to establish the correlation between the quality meat of pigs and the distance between the wind at their fattening.

These pigs, divided into 3 groups, were brought respectively to 50m distances (Group 1), 500m (Group 2) and 1000m (Group 3) from 2MW wind turbines. At the end of the experiment which was approved by an ethics committee on animal experiments, a first finding has emerged: smaller weight gain was linked to the proximity of wind turbines.

From an initial weight of 30 kg, the animals reached 80 kg respectively for group 1, 82.5 kg for group 2 and 90 kg for group 3. However, significant differences were also found in the composition of meat after slaughter, highlighting a link between the distance to the wind turbine and the PH (acidity of stress-related tissue) of the neck muscles, or the importance of post mortem glycolysis. Numerous other correlations were also found, such as a decrease in the concentration of alpha-linolenic acid with increasing distance to the wind turbines. The literature suggests, in fact, that the animal is subject to fighting against stress. This study concludes unambiguously that there is significant harmful influence of wind turbine noise on the quality of the meat.

This finding should not be surprising since, in 2013, another Polish study established a link between the distances of wind turbines and the impact on fattened geese and cortisol (stress hormone marker). ( "Preliminary studies on the reaction is growing geese to the proximity of wind turbines" J.Mikolajczak & al) . Stress difficult to charge for these animals, a negative attitude towards renewable energy, yet mentioned when it comes to local residents.

Both studies considered both the role of audible noise and the wind infrasound, which we know the potential adverse health effects from NASA studies and the US Department of Energy in the 1980s What that either the frequency range, amplitude modulation (AM). wind noise had already been identified as the main criterion of stress for residents. (ND Kelley, RR Hemphill, ME McKenna. "A Methodology for Assessment of Wind Turbine Noise Generation", 1982 p.113).

Excessive amplitude modulation (EAM) the wind noise has been put back on the front stage by the Member for Daventry, Chris Heaton-Harris, when delivered to the British government's report of a group of independent experts "INWG, Wind Turbine Amplitude Modulation Control & Planning Study, July 2015." confirming its leading role, linked to the rotational speed of the blades and causing a "swishing" each passing those below the bottom end of path.

This report reviews the extensive scientific literature that establishes the reality of the adverse effects of wind turbines on sleep and health. It evokes the constant denial of the industrial sector to avoid being able the major criteria of discomfort and means employed to minimize the value when forced to do so. (Work Package 4, p 3, §1.6) This report appears to have caused a stir across the Channel, in a press denouncing the maneuvers and does not hesitate to draw a parallel with the scandal VW .

For years, scientists such as epidemiologist Carl V.Phillips yet recall the overwhelming presumptions which means responsibility in severe wind and identical symptoms of thousands of their residents worldwide. Carl V. Phillips demand that we stop playing with words on scientific evidence to try to deny this major health problem.

In June 2014, the report of the Finnish Ministry of Health called for a minimum distance of 2 km from houses by concluding: "The actors of development of wind energy should understand that no economic or political objective must not prevail over the well being and health of individuals. "

In France, the March 2008 report of the French health agency AFSSET had not retained the distance of 1500 m recommended by the National Academy of Medicine, considering in particular that: "The benefits of the generalization of such a distance, must be weighed against the slowing on development. "(P 15)

Today, protection of biodiversity, landscapes and historical monuments has been set aside to allow for the proliferation of wind turbines. It is shocking that in Poland, the "Department of Technology of Meat and Food Quality of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin" has raised concerns about the impairment of the quality of pig meat yet legal distances are not addressed when it comes to local residents.

Translation from French assisted using Google translate.