French Academy of Medicine Declare Wind Turbines Health Nuisance

National Academy of Medicine May 9, 2017 France

Nuisances Sanitaires des Éoliennes Terrestres — Académie Nationale de Médecine

Author: Tran Ba Huy, Patrice; and French Academy of Medicine

Health nuisances of onshore wind turbines

The new report of the National Academy of Medicine, adopted on 9 May 2017, recommends reducing the emergence trigger level to 30 dB (A) outside dwellings and 25 dB (A) to l inside.

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The planned extension of the terrestrial wind energy sector raises an increasing number of complaints from associations of local residents reporting functional disturbances achieving what is known as the "wind turbine syndrome". The aim of this report was to analyze the real health impact and to propose recommendations that could reduce its potential impact.

If the terrestrial wind does not seem to directly induce organic pathologies, it affects through its noise and especially visual nuisance the quality of life of a part of the residents and thus their "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being "Which today defines the concept of health.

In order to improve the acceptance of the wind and to reduce its direct or indirect health impact, the working group recommends:

To ensure that during the authorization procedure the public inquiry is carried out with the aim of fully informing the local populations, facilitate consultation between them and the operators and facilitate the referral of the prefect by the complainants,

To allow the installation of new wind turbines only in areas where there has been consensus among the population concerned as to their visual impact, given that the increase in their size and their planned extension may permanently alter The landscape of the country and to arouse on the part of the riparian population - and general - opposition and resentment with their psychic and somatic consequences.

To systematize acoustic compliance checks, the frequency of which must be specified in all authorization orders and not on a case-by-case basis,

To encourage technological innovations likely to restrict and "bridle" in real time the noise emitted by the wind turbines and to equip the oldest wind turbines,

To reduce the threshold for triggering emergencies to 30 dB A outside the dwellings and to 25 inside (while leaving the wind turbines under the Environmental Protection Schemes),

To undertake, as recommended in the previous report, a prospective epidemiological study on health nuisances.

Full report
Report of the National Academy of Medicine - May 9, 2017

Source

https://www.wind-watch.org/doc...

https://mothersagainstturbines...

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Académie nationale de médecine ... NUISANCES SANITAIRES DES EOLIENNES TERRESTRES. Patrice TRAN BA HUY *,

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