{"id":29445,"date":"2014-07-10T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=29445"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:00:39","slug":"wind-turbine-infrasound-screws-up-ovulation-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2014\/wind-turbine-infrasound-screws-up-ovulation-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind turbine infrasound screws up ovulation (Denmark)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cAll my female employees are complaining of irregular menstruations, and several have permanent headaches\u201d (Boye Jensen, Nursery Owner, Denmark)<\/h3>\n

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\n<\/span>\u2014 Mark Duchamp, Chairman, World Council for Nature<\/a> (7\/10\/14)<\/p>\n

The Danish press reports the case of a garden centre (nursery) going out of business because of nearby wind turbines. Headaches are frequent among employees, and female workers complain of unusual bleeding and problems with their menstrual cycles. They are worried that more serious illnesses may follow. \u00a0Five have recently resigned. The owner is now closing his business\u00a0for fear of being held liable\u00a0should a child be born with deformities, as happened to numerous mink puppies at a fur farm near wind turbines in Jutland.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Boye Jensen, the owner of Lammefjordens Perennials, is 67. He started his nursery 43 years ago and it became a prosperous business with 15 employees and annual sales of 12 million krones (equiv. $ 2.1 million). He was planning to continue working for another 6-7 years, then sell the nursery. But his business is now worth nothing, creating an enormous\u00a0financial loss.<\/p>\n

He is discussing\u00a0with his lawyer whether to\u00a0sue Vattenfal, the company that owns the wind turbines, or the Municipality of Holbaek, which approved their installation 400-700 metres from his nursery. He expects to go\u00a0to court and seek damages of\u00a0several million krones.<\/p>\n

\u201cHimself a neighbour to 127-metre high wind turbines since their installation three years ago, Boye Jensen has long been convinced that low frequency noise emitted by the turbines makes people ill, as they do animals.\u201d2<\/sup>\u00a0Then, recently, he heard the tragic\u00a0news from Kaj Bank Olesen\u2019s mink farms.1<\/sup>\u00a0 This, along with\u00a0the resignation of several of his employees for health reasons, made him realise his business had become untenable\u00a0because of the wind turbines. \u201cThe nursery owner made this hard decision after a mink breeder in Jutland was able to establish a causal link between the loss of a third of his mink puppies, deformed or stillborn, and several giant wind turbines erected nearby.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n

The story made the news in Denmark,2,3<\/sup> and Member of Parliament Karina Adsb\u00f8l expressed her concerns to the Minister of Health at a parliamentary hearing. \u00a0The Minister, typically, replied by addressing other, less important issues mentioned by the MP, and ignoring the important ones, i.e. wind turbines causing birth defects in animals forced to live near them, and disrupting women\u2019s menstrual cycles.4<\/sup><\/p>\n

The World Council for Nature (WCFN) is calling attention to the fact that, as occurred for tobacco, asbestos, thalidomide, etc., governments are siding with private financial interests in ignoring or denying the existence of obvious health problems linked to wind turbines. As is the case for the millions of birds and bats killed yearly by the turbines\u2019 blades, mendacious studies are published by unscrupulous consultants, and by professionals and universities happy to oblige their benefactors. Hypocrisy is rampant, species are fast disappearing from our skies, and thousands of windfarm neighbours are being submitted to torture. The word \u201ctorture\u201d is not an exaggeration: sleep deprivation is indeed a recognised form of torture.<\/p>\n

In Denmark, as elsewhere in the world, many rural families\u00a0are suffering, particularly since the manufacture\u00a0of the mega turbines (1 MW and over), which emit more infrasound as they grow bigger. This may explain why the complaints are growing louder. How much longer can this suffering be ignored, or even denied by health authorities?<\/p>\n

Some countries, including\u00a0Canada and Australia, have commissioned studies into the matter of noise emitted by windfarms. But the studies\u2019 scope and methodology doom\u00a0them to failure, perhaps intentionally. What is really needed is:<\/p>\n