{"id":3724,"date":"2009-08-24T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2012-02-02T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T12:16:22","slug":"guinea-pig-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/guinea-pig-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin's Guinea Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went to Madison, Wisconsin,\u00a0on May 12, 2009, as did 2 busloads of people\u00a0from the area.<\/p>\n

We live in the Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center<\/a>, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.\u00a0 (It’s more proplerly an industrial complex, not “energy center.”)<\/p>\n

I listened to heart-wenching testimony for 6.5 hours before it was my turn<\/a>.\u00a0 That little “three minute speech\u201d I\u2019d been staring at for hours went out the window.\u00a0 “Mad” doesn\u2019t cover it.\u00a0 I was incensed at what some of the good citizens of Wisconsin have been asked to endure.\u00a0 I blew my cool.<\/p>\n

The whole NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) thing will never hold water until they begin putting these 400 foot structures into the parks system, or federally protected lands.\u00a0 How about golf courses?\u00a0 Let the public at large really see what it might be like to have 88 of them in their backyard on a day and night basis.\u00a0 Only then could it be called fair distribution of the burden.\u00a0 At least in places such as these, maybe they wouldn’t be keeping people awake at night listening to the pulsating howl.\u00a0 The headache in the morning after clenching your teeth all night: can’t ignore it.\u00a0 Too big and loud to ignore.<\/p>\n

Not once could I find that the public is taken into account in the 174 or so pages of the wind energy company’s application for “public necessity.”\u00a0 One can read pages and pages of the possible effects on the bat population or birds.\u00a0 Even the grouse.\u00a0 And yet, if there was one word or mention given to the possible physical effects on the human population, I couldn’t find it.<\/p>\n

We are the guinea pigs.\u00a0 Unless you live in it, how could you possibly know what it’s like?<\/p>\n

People stop here frequently, pull in the drive during the afternoon to listen.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really mind; they’re\u00a0just curious. They often comment that they seem quiet.\u00a0 “Should have been here around 2:00 A.M or whatever time it was the night before when they woke me up,” is my usual response.<\/p>\n

I’ve often heard people say, \u201cWe parked right under one so we could listen.”\u00a0 Of course I have to expain how sound travels. I\u00a0then ask them to go 1000 feet in all directions and listen to the same turbine,\u00a0then come back here and we\u2019ll talk.<\/p>\n

Before they pull their car away, I usually hear, “I\u2019m so sorry!”<\/p>\n

—Joan Lagerman 8\/23\/09
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