News Release
Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County
P.O. Box 173
Milford, Ontario K0K 2P0
APPEC Response to ERT Decision on Ostrander Point
Milford, ON/ July 4, 2013 The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC) congratulates the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists on the success of its appeal on the Ostrander Point wind power project. The Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) has recognized that Ostrander Point provides critical habitat for endangered species such as the Blanding’s turtle.
However, APPEC is baffled by the ERT’s decision on human health. The panel accepted key findings in the Erickson ERT decision (2011) that turbines can cause serious harm and some people will experience symptoms arising from “extreme annoyance.” It also found “credible” the testimony of eleven rural Ontario residents who reported their ill health following the start of operations by six different wind projects. Finally, it heard that these reports meet Dr. Robert McMurtry’s case definition for adverse health effects in the environs of industrial wind turbines.
Yet the ERT panel declined to connect the health evidence with expert opinion. Instead, it argued that medical diagnoses and noise studies are required. These demands far exceed the legal test that wind victims are “more likely than not” suffering “serious harm to health” from wind turbines.
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