Report: Wind turbines don’t cause health problems

[caraher]

3. You can't be serious

It's true that we haven't had a negative human health impact due to wind turbines.

The same can be said for nuclear power.

I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a significant form of power that has NOT had some negative human health impacts. Workers have died falling from wind turbines, to pick one example.

And there is this little boo-boo called Chernobyl that you may have heard of. By even the most favorable estimates, the accident unquestionably killed dozens of workers in its early days and caused cancer deaths numbering in the thousands by even the most favorable credible estimates. That's a documented negative human health impact of an entirely different order from speculative effects of sound or flicker, or even the occasional self-destructing turbine.

OK, so fossil fuel burning is worse... that doesn't mean there are no risks for nuclear or wind.