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How to discourage kitesurfing at your local.

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Created by waveslave > 9 months ago, 25 Feb 2010
kato
VIC, 3532 posts
4 Mar 2010 9:02PM
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PsyberG said...

FlickySpinny said...

There's a lot of health claims being made around wind farms at the moment. To date there has yet to be a single peer-reviewed study that states that wind farms can cause health problems. It's all based on anecdotal evidence at the moment.



Too right it is anecdotal, a clearly biased anti-windfarm GP has interviewed less than a dozen families who presented with a wide range of symptoms (who are also pre-disposed to those symptoms) and blames wind farms, hardly what i would consider a thorough statistical or technical evaluation. Furthermore, all those interviewed were in North America, where planning laws allow turbines to be placed as close as 300m. The minimum setback in Australia is typically 3 times this distance.




Sorry not true. Wonthaggi,s one are 362m and 420m from a persons home and business.They were long established before the wind towers,which i think are a good idea.We just need much better planning laws to deal with different industries moving into new areas.

A better way to stop kitters is show them the injury rate and the hospital bills

ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
5 Mar 2010 8:24PM
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kato said...

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PsyberG said...


A better way to stop kitters is show them the injury rate and the hospital bills




But. from reading this forum, all the injuries happen to either

inexperienced kiteboarders who were being taught by their mates and are stupid (we need to be careful so kitesurfing doesn't get banned)

or

experienced kiteboarders who didn't do anything wrong but were unlucky (I hope they get well soon)

So providing you're neither inexperienced nor experienced then you're fine

NotWal
QLD, 7436 posts
5 Mar 2010 9:05PM
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ginger pom said...

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So providing you're neither inexperienced nor experienced then you're fine



I think we need a sarcasm emoticon.

sharkbiscuit
820 posts
5 Mar 2010 7:30PM
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