Everyone,

Over the past nine days and 3000 miles and 7 wind farms, Sandy Swanson and I took many still shots, reams of video, copious notes, and conducted numerous interviews.  What's happening is an absolute crime.  Every single impact that is denied by developers has been confirmed again and again in wind farm after wind farm.  Lovely rural communities are being turned into industrial freak shows.  In some places people have just accepted their fate and they live with it, not understanding how empowered they actually are by their situations...meaning that all they'd have to do is get noisy enough, and the developers would stop ignoring them.  One told us she's learned how to go outside in her garden, and block everything from her mind...so as not to be disturbed and frustrated.  She said once, on a quiet day (the turbines weren't moving for a change) she heard what sounded like gunshots.  She had been blocking everything like she taught herself to do and suddenly realized the gunshot noises were really coming from the nearest turbine...probably contracting as the sun went down.

 Scott Srnka from Lincoln Township, Wisconsin is enduring such awful atrocities, it's very hard to believe they're true.   I've even steered clear from his information over the past three years for fear of being accused of using scare-tactics.  But the guy is rock-solid, and anyone who meets him and actually goes to his beautiful farm and sees his beautiful family, knows he's the real deal.  His neighbors know he's honorable and credible and that his troubles are real...it's the one's of us who hear about his dilemma long distance that doubt the truthfulness when we hear about his deformed cows and family's health problems, etc, due to severe stray voltage.

Apparently, most farmers experience some levels of stray voltage on their farms.  But the extenuating circumstances on Scott's farm include a combination of surface rock, no substation for this particular wind farm, and the nearness of the turbines.  He and one other dairy farm are being severely impacted, but the other one, right next door, won't admit it because they own the leases on about 10 or 15 of the turbines and don't want to jeopardize that easy money.

Somehow I expected an older 'scoundrelly' type of man on some old falling apart, smelly dairy farm.  But Scott is a young man and the farm is meticulously kept.  It was his father's and grandfather's before him and after hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses to try and remedy the problems caused by the wind farm across the street, he's calling it quits and may be moved out by spring.  His wife is pregnant with their third child and they are nervous wrecks, though they have gone through every imaginable test to insure that the baby's been fine right along.  He says with the equipment he's installed, he knows when it's bad, and when it is, they leave the home for a week, maybe two...however long it takes to get back to more tolerable levels.  Scott says that under the current conditions, he's losing about a thousand dollars a day from what his farm should and would otherwise normally produce. more