Clearly, rural and remote communities have much to gain (including better health and wellbeing) if the influential
rural health lobby could find its way to join up with wider advocacy campaigns addressing poverty and inequitable policies across the board.
In his testimony to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the Social and Economic Impact of
Rural Wind Farms Mr Ken Andrew McAlpine (Director; Policy and Government Relations, Asia - Pacific Region, Vestas Australian Wind Technology Pty Ltd) pointed out that
health concerns about wind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant
lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the claims.