David and Alida Mortimer: treated by the wind industry as
‘inconvenient’ facts. But they are facts, that just won’t go away.

With Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry – always prickly when it comes to fronting up to “inconvenient” facts (see our post here) – is more defensive than ever.

In Australia, one long-running “inconvenience” for the wind industry, is the situation popped up by David and Alida Mortimer.

The Mortimers signed up with Babcock and Brown – which, after its 2009 collapse, phoenixed into Infigen – to host turbines on their property near Millicent in the South-East of South Australia, way back in 2003.

Since the turbines kicked into gear in 2005, the Mortimers have suffered from a familiar list of turbine related adverse health effects, including sleep…