Link to source for some of the data:
Submission to Legislative Committee on Bill 150:
http://energy.probeinternational.org/two-types-greens
Michael Trebilcock, a renowned economist and friend of the environment, will be appearing at the Ontario legislature tonight {8 Apr 2009}, arguing against the Ontario government’s proposed Green Energy Act. For the many good reason he outlines, this green act is anything but green.
Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Danish experience is instructive. Its electricity generation costs are the highest in Europe (15 cents/kwh compared to Ontario’s current rate of about 6 cents).
A growing body of scientific and medical evidence suggests that the health effects on those subjected to long and frequent periods of pulsating, low-frequency noise associated with wind turbines include sleep disturbances leading to depression, chronic stress, migraines, nausea and dizziness, exhaustion and anger, memory loss and cognitive difficulties, cardiac arrhythmias, increased heart rate and blood pressure. Kamperman and James[11] list no fewer than 13 studies that show noise from wind turbines at night can disturb residents more than 2 km away.