A Deceitful Pattern Includes Ontario

"Fallen blades and turbines left to rust at Pattern's Campo wind farm"

An update from California, where planners approved Pattern Energy's Ocotillo wind project.  Extensive reporting notes Pattern cited research from Ontario in concluding there are no health impacts from living near wind turbines. 

PLANNERS APPROVE OCOTILLO WIND, IGNORE SERIOUS HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, COMMUNITY AND TRIBAL CONCERNS | East County Magazine:

Pattern cited studies it claimed have concluded there no health impacts from living near wind turbines, citing research in Ontario among others. But residents provided documents showing serious health effects documented in scientific literature, with impacts ranging from headaches to heart problems such as Vibraacoustic Disease and Wind Turbine Syndrome, articles in scientific journals such as this one, and a warning from a global activist group claiming health problems among people living near wind turbines worldwide is pandemic.

Residents of Ocotillo, a low-income community, gave emotional testimony, nearly all in opposition to the project.

“There are 400 people there whose lives will be destroyed, said Cheryl Pelley, who lives less than a half-mile from the project site..

The full article is available at the East county Magazine