Global Wind Industry and Adverse Health Effects:
Loss of Social Justice?
Where:
The Waring House Inn and Conference Center, Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
When:
October 29-31, 2010
The Symposium will feature expert speakers from the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada who will provide important information relating to health issues reported by people living too close to industrial wind developments. International experts including Dr. Christopher Hanning, M.D. (U.K.), Michael Nissenbaum, M.D. (U.S.A.), John Harrison, Ph.D. (Can) and Arline Bronzaft, Ph.D. (U.S.A.) will discuss the affects of wind turbine noise on sleep, impacts on children and the urgent need for human health research.
Keynote speaker is Dr. Nina Pierpont, M.D., Ph.D. (USA)
Who should attend?
- Rural and other health specialists
- Professional Engineers
- Acousticians
- Policy advisors for Government health departments
- Policy advisors for Government Renewable Energy strategies
- Renewable energy specialists
- Health correspondents
- Public medical officers of health
- Interested members of the public
Download the full program here. Click here for Press Release. Download registration form here.
FRIDAY October 29 PM
12:00 pm – Registration begins
7:00 pm – Introductory Evening Session
Session I No Rules, No Caution, No Accountability
Orville Walsh, Co-Chair – Opening Remarks: No Global Standards
John Harrison – It’s Pure Physics
Rick James – Acoustics 101
SATURDAY October 30 AM/PM
8:30 am
Session II What Clinicians Need To Know
Dr. Robert McMurtry, Chair – Opening Remarks
Dr. Nina Pierpont (Key Note) – Defining a Syndrome
Dr. Alec Salt – Infrasound: Your Ears Hear It But They Don’t Tell Your Brain
Coffee break 15 minutes
Session III Cause and Effect
Dr. Arline Bronzaft – Children: Canaries in the Coal Mine
Dr. Christopher Hanning – The Torment of Sleep Disturbance
Session Working Luncheon
Robert Bryce – A Journey of Discovery
Session IV Research and Motion
Dr. Michael A. Nissenbaum – Deleterious Health Effects are Undeniable
Dr. Carl V. Phillips – The Absence of Health Studies Proves Nothing
Coffee break 15 minutes
Session V The Consequences – Violation of Social Justice
Carmen Krogh – A Gross Injustice
Eric Gillespie – Social Justice and the Law
Dinner 7:30
SUNDAY OCTOBER 31 AM
8:30 am
Session VI Social Marketing – Disinformation
Dale Goldhawk – Media and Pre-emptive Stereotyping
Dr. Ross McKitrick – Coal Kills-Where Are the Bodies?
Session VII Toward A Global Movement
Dale Goldhawk – Moderator for Next Steps
Dr. Robert McMurtry/Orville Walsh – Wrap Up & Proceedings |