In 2011, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the ASTHMA Society of CANADA and the Ontario Lung Association sponsored an advertising campaign that voiced this MESSAGE: “Ontario doctors, nurses and other health professionals support energy conservation combined with wind and solar power, to help us move away from coal.”

Over 30 years of studies by PROTAGONISTS and antagonists alike have failed to show scientific evidence that wind turbines are actually able to make people sick. Over 100,000 turbines are currently in operation throughout the world right now, mostly in Europe, many within a short walk of the owners’ homes.

Conversely, it is a well proven fact that burning coal causes the premature death of HUNDREDS of Ontario residents, and debilitates those with asthma and other respiratory ailments. Similarly, there are multitudes of reports which conclusively demonstrate the dangers of nuclear energy, including a list of over 800 “incidents” such as Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and many less well known, including incidents at Elliot Lake and Pickering in Ontario. A growing body of local and international studies has repeated proven that wind energy poses no meaningful health risk to humans, and indeed wind plays an important role in helping us move away from more dangerous alternatives like coal and nuclear.

In 2011, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the Asthma Society of Canada and the Ontario Lung Association sponsored an advertising campaign that voiced this message: “Ontario doctors, nurses and other health professionals support energy conservation combined with wind and solar power, to help us move away from coal.”

Over 30 years of studies by protagonists and antagonists alike have failed to show scientific evidence that wind turbines are actually able to make people sick. Over 100,000 turbines are currently in operation throughout the world right now, mostly in Europe, many within a short walk of the owners’ homes.

Conversely, it is a well proven fact that burning coal causes the premature death of hundreds of Ontario residents, and debilitates those with asthma and other respiratory ailments. Similarly, there are multitudes of reports which conclusively demonstrate the dangers of nuclear energy, including a list of over 800 “incidents” such as Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and many less well known, including incidents at Elliot Lake and Pickering in Ontario. A growing body of local and international studies has repeated proven that wind energy poses no meaningful health risk to humans, and indeed wind plays an important role in helping us move away from more dangerous alternatives like coal and nuclear.