DOCTORS STRONGLY SUPPORT ONTARIO'S RENEWABLE ENERGY

Today's Woolwich Observer on page 5 carrys a full page story/commentary titled "Doctors urge province to ramp up renewable energy". This article was written by three members of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and they have a history of advocating on behalf of cleaner energy. They quote statistics such as in Ontario in 2010, Ontario's coal fired electrical plants killed 300 citizens and caused over 158,000 illnesses. Yes it is shocking. Nuclear power, natural gas, coal and home heating fuel oil contribute to climate change, respiratory illness, brain damage, cancer and or radioactive wastes and acidified lakes.

Solar power and wind power do none of the above. The doctors also claim that recent studies (2009, 2012) show that there is no scientific evidence of Wind Turbine Syndrome. This claim I am taking with a grain of salt as I recall for decades in my youth that there was no scientific evidence that smoking caused cancer. Funny how as popular opinion turned against smoking, the studies suddenly popped up everywhere.

The bottom line is that our medical community recognize that our current energy sources not only aren't sustainable but they are slowly killing us.