Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global Health
23 Mar 2017
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Why study wind energy: pollution and climate change, renewable targets, global health, growing low carbon economies, people who live with turbines, changes to daily life, perceived health problems, financial benefits. Wind energy in ontario: ontario is not the leading province with wind energy, no more coal, today 4780 mw (megawatts) installed capacity, target 7500 mw contracts by 2018. Cost of wind energy in ontario: competitiveness has arrived, as low as 6. 45 cents/kwh (6. 3 quebec); (new)clear ~ 7-8 cents, dropped from set-price programs 2010-2014, solar still relatively expensive, though down from 80 cents/ kwh in 2010. What about health problems: esear(cid:272)h is so(cid:373)e(cid:449)hat (cid:373)i(cid:454)ed, (cid:455)et (cid:858)the (cid:271)est(cid:859) (cid:373)ost re(cid:272)e(cid:374)t studies suggest (cid:374)o dire(cid:272)t li(cid:374)k, health problems likely psychosomatic, caused by annoyance (and injustices, says they stress them out and thus it makes them sick. Health problems in ontario: policy set up to promote health problems: one of two viable ways to stop them, health risks, environmental risks.
