EPAW – the European Platform Against Windfarms has launched an e-petition on the No.10 website, to set up an independent working party of acousticians and medical experts to fully explore the problems of wind turbine noise and the health consequences,as they claim that ETSU-R-97, the measurement presently used, is invalid and does not protect communities from unbearable noise pollution.
The European Platform Against Windfarms was founded in Paris on 4th October, 2008, by federations, associations, and other groups from four EU countries.
The aim of EPAW is to defend the interests of the many groups which are either:
- opposing individual wind farm proposals;
- or questioning the effectiveness of wind farms as a tool for solving our energy problems;
- or protecting flora, fauna and landscapes from the damage wind farms cause directly or through environmental degradation such as erosion, water contamination and bush fires;
- or fighting generally against the damaging effects of wind farms on tourism, the economy, people’s quality of life, their health and the value of their property;
- or concerned with some or all of the above.
The spokesmen of the EPAW platform are:
- Chairman: Jean-Louis Butré (President of the national federation Fédération Environnement Durable (FED), France)
- Vice-Chairman: Ferdinand Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (President of the national federation Bundesverband Landschaftsschutz, Germany)
- Delegate-General: Luc Rivet (President of the regional federation Vent de Raison, Belgium)
- Secretary-General: Dominique Mette (France)
- Spokesman for Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) plus Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: Peter Skeel Hjorth (journalist, former editor-in-chief, Sweden)
You can contact EPAW by emailing contact@epaw.org
To sign the petition visit: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ETSU-R97Failings/
