Copyright 2004 Lincolnshire Echo
Lincolnshire Echo

January 26, 2004

SECTION: News; Other; Others; Pg. 3

LENGTH: 146 words

HEADLINE: Turbines 'Can Affect Wellbeing'

BODY:
A survey by a Cornish doctor found noise from turbines can cause headaches,
migraines, tinnitus and lack of sleep. As a result, the British Wind Energy
Association and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
have commissioned further research into the effects of turbines on health.

The news comes just weeks after plans for dozens of turbines across
Lincolnshire were submitted.

Sites at Northorpe, Welton, Sudbrooke and Croft, near Skegness, are inlcuded
in the applications.

The research was carried out by a doctor in Padstow who following the
erection of 16 turbines at the nearby Bears Down wind farm.

She found the turbines were thought to have caused nausea, dizziness and
palpitations.

The research also showed a rise in the amount of sleep disturbance, stress
and depression among people living close to wind farms.



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