The Industrial Wind Action Group posted a translation of an article from the Danish Daily Politiken. It's a very important read, centred on Doctor Mauri Johansson taking concerns, and evidence, to the March 29 annual meeting of Vestas, it notes the wind industry's ability to smear those with valid concerns.
www.windaction.org | Vestas smears wind turbine neighbours:
The Danish Association of Neighbours of Giant Wind Turbines (Landsforeningen Naboer til Kæmpemøller) is, for example, in favour of wind turbines, but argues that most of them should be located offshore. Scientists both abroad and in Denmark have warned that the authorities apply less strict requirements to the wind turbine industry than to other types of industries.
As previously mentioned in the Politiken newspaper, the new Danish Executive Order issued by the Ministry of the Environment has been criticised by internationally renowned experts such as Professor of Acoustics, Henrik Møller from Aalborg University, and Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kerstin Persson from Gothenburg University.
Even the Danish Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine pointed out during the hearing in November that "the Executive Order does not provide sufficient protection against the health risks associated with the noise" - but the Executive Order, nevertheless, has not been amended.
"It's the wind turbine people who don't have their facts in order these days.
The only chance ordinary citizens have to get the message through politically is to have all the right documentation," says Doctor Johansson.
Conscious smear
However, neither he nor the neighbours of giant wind turbines stand much chance according to Professor of Political Science, Peter Nedergaard from Copenhagen University. He is of the view that the wind turbine industry's status as a supplier of ‘good' energy means that it is extremely difficult for critics of the industry to have their points of view taken into account.
Read the full article
Related: http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/2012/gutsy-doc-gives-vestas-hell-denmark/
While Vestas may be out there doing the smearing thing, the problem really is the Ministry of the Environment (or whatever they call it in Denmark) not protecting its citizens.... just like everywhere else on the planet but especially Ontario. By the way, Denmark is often held up as this wonderful model for the world to emulate. The next time that someone says “But the Danes are using wind power and it’s working just fine....” be prepared for them. The Danes may be getting close to 20% of their needs being supplied by wind but this is only possible because they have direct connections to neighbours that are much larger than they are... Germany, Sweden and Norway. Thus when the wind blows and Denmark can’t use all the power, it goes to their neighbours at a spot market price which means close to zero..... sound familiar? It has been recently estimated that Denmark essentially gives 40% of their power away. Lots of it goes to Norway who use it to pump water up to reservoirs and then it is available to use it to generate power. One way to look at this is that due to Denmark’s foolish overindulgence into wind, they are keeping Norway’s battery (reservoirs) charged at all times.... and basically doing so for nothing.
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