Wind farms, the perfectly safe health hazard

Louise Gray, environment correspondent for the UK’s Daily Telegraph, is confused. The DT’s crack press release recycler reporter filed two stories March 17th and her readers learned that wind farms are perfectly safe to live near, except when they’re not.

First she reported the encouraging news that wind farms don’t make people ill:

From the story:

Flicker
Shadow flicker is the flickering effect caused when rotating wind turbine blades periodically cast shadows through constrained openings, such as windows. The strobe effect could be a problem for the tiny percentage of the population who suffer from epilepsy. Past studies have found the problem could cause “significant nuisance” to residents over the long term. However an official report commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change found that it should not cause “a significant risk to health” in Britain.

But wait, here’s a story that says there is hope for people afflicted by the negative effects of wind-farms:

From the story:

Lynn Harlock, who lives almost half a mile from Redtile wind farm in Cambridgeshire, said she was “sick to death” of flicker.

“You cannot sit in any rooms when the sun is setting at certain times of year,” she said. “It is like flashing strobe lighting. It is quite upsetting not being able to sit in your own home. “People think you are barmy. They think you are after compensation. But all we want is our home back.”

Wind farms are just like global warming, they can do everything.