Western NY Health & Wind Energy Forum
To tackle myths about wind energy head-on, ACE NY, NY League of Conservation Voters, New Yorkers for Clean Power, and the Union of Concerned Scientists co-hosted a successful Forum at the University of Buffalo on November 21, 2019. Expert panelists talked about wind energy and health, with fact-based information on the issues being debated and latest studies that have taken place on this topic.
Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, program leader for the Harvard School of Public Health’s climate, energy, and health team whose research focuses on the health co-benefits of renewable energy development.
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Michael Hankard, President and Principal of Hankard Environmental Acoustical Consultants
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Thank you to our panelists!
PANEL OF EXPERTS INCLUDED:
Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, program leader for the Harvard School of Public Health’s climate, energy, and health team whose research focuses on the health co-benefits of renewable energy development.
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Michael Hankard, President and Principal or Hankard Environmental Acoustical Consultants who specializes in measuring, analyzing, and reporting on environmental noise levels relating to wind turbines and other sources.
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Dr. Robert J. McCunney, a practicing physician in the Pulmonary Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston whose clinical research focuses on illnesses associated with occupational and environmental hazards.
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Jason Kehl is a fourth-generation dairy farmer who, along with his wife Missy and three daughters, milk 120 Holstein cows at Kehl Farms in Strykersville, New York. Kehl Farms grows all their own forages on 450 acres of property that hosts not only the Kehl’s home, but also four wind turbines from the High Sheldon Wind Farm. Jason will offer a first-hand local perspective on what it is like to live and work near wind turbines.
Professor Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney School of Public Health, one of the world’s leading experts on the issue of human health and wind farms and the author of Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease.
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The forum was moderated by Rita Graham, an independent meeting facilitator with 35 years of experience in environmental and agriculture-related issues.