As with any emerging medical issue, there’s far from universal agreement on the symptoms of wind turbine syndrome, or whether it even exists. A sample of available research found online:

• “Noise Radiation From Wind Turbines Installed Near Homes: Effect on Health,” Barbara J. Frey and Peter J Hadden, 137-page report:

“More people living close to wind turbines – within 1.5 km – complain of sleep deprivation, headaches, dizziness, unsteadiness, nausea, exhaustion, mood problems, and inability to concentrate.”

– www.windturbinenoisehealthhumanrights.com

• “The Health Impact of Wind Turbines: A Review of the Current White, Gray and Published Literature,” Dr. David Colby, acting medical officer of health, Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit:

“Noise produced by wind turbines is aerodynamic or mechanical in nature. Infrasound is inaudible and not generated in a manner harmful to humans. … Although opposition to wind farms on aesthetic grounds is a legitimate point of view, opposition to wind farms on the basis of potential adverse health consequences is not justified by the evidence.”

– www.chatham-kent.ca/

• “Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Report on a Natural Experiment,” Dr. Nina Pierpont:

“At least one developer has put forward the hypothesis that a negative attitude or worry towards turbines is what leads people to be disturbed by turbine noise. A reorientation is in order. If people are so disturbed by their headaches, tinnitus, panic, sleeplessness, or disrupted children that they must move or abandon their homes to get away from wind turbine noise and vibration, then that noise and vibration is significant, because the symptoms it causes are significant.”

– www.windturbinesyndrome.com/

• “Wind Turbine Noise, Infrasound and Noise Perception,” University of Massachusetts Renewable Energy Research Laboratory:

“Rule of thumb: Three times blade tip height from turbine to residence (equals) acceptable noise levels.”

– www.windpoweringamerica.gov

• “Noise annoyance from wind turbines – a review,” Eja Pedersen, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency:

“Wind turbine noise: Does not directly cause any physical health problems. There is not enough data to conclude if wind turbine noise could induce sleep disturbance or stress-related symptoms; Is, due to its characteristics, not easily masked by background noise; (And) is particularly poorly masked by background noise at certain topographical conditions.”

– www.barrhill.org.uk/windfarm/noise