4-12-16 fdl county public health officer tells board of health latest studies show no link between wind turbines and human health

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer didn’t have the information some town of Marshfield residents wanted to hear when it comes wind turbines at a Fond du lac County Board of Health meeting last week.  Following up from a meeting earlier this year Public Health Officer Kim Mueller presented the board with the latest information provided by state and federal officials.  Mueller says the most up to date information gathered can’t find a direct impact on wind turbines and human health.  “If you would just kind of summarize the whole thing it says there is a lack of evidence to support any hypothesis regarding human health effects caused by wind energy systems,”  Mueller said.  Town residents who have attended a number of meetings in the past swear its not their imagination, that their health has been negatively impacted by the turbines.  But Mueller says the data that has been collected so far can’t reach that conclusion.  “Basically that’s what they’re (town residents) are looking for.  They’re looking for the Board of Health or myself to declare something a health hazard.  Per state statutes it would be my obligation to abate that health hazard,”  Mueller said.  “But that’s not the case.”   More than two years ago the county board approved a resolution asking for a state study.   But money included in the state budget for a study was removed by the Republican controlled Jt. Finance Committee.