Letters / Who to believe?

In reply to Drew Ratter’s ignorant rhetorical rant on the Tom Morton Beatcroft programme there are a few points on which I think he needs to be educated on.

Ratter’s comment of vibroacoustic noise as ‘some rumbles’ and likening it to your bowels was frankly childish.

To then describe shadow flicker as ‘utter nonsense’ and that anyone’s concerns about this is a result of ‘Internet generated drivel’.

Arrogant pronouncements to say the least. When the Viking Energy Windfarm was mooted I was concerned about the health effects and decided to do my own research and contacted Dr. Sarah Laurie, medical director at the WAUBRA Foundation.

Dr Laurie’s research involved a list of worrying health conditions which correspond directly with the operation of wind turbines.

I was contacted by her and this was her reply; “There is increasing evidence that both acute and chronic exposure to operating wind turbines can cause serious problems for people not just within the 2km but well beyond depending on the size of the turbines, the topography, the prevailing winds and the duration of exposure”.

Dr Laurie offered to send me an affidavit so she must have been quite sure of the facts.

I then contacted Professor Emeritus Robert McMurtry in Canada who confirmed the health issues.

So now the question is who to believe? Reports written by eminent doctors or an Ollaberry crofter who was a signatory to the Busta Agreement?

Evelyn Morrison
Weisdale