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The “Canary in the Wind Farm”

The State of Wisconsin by virtue of the PSC has already sent the proverbial “canary into the coal mine” by installing industrial wind turbines
too close to homes and human and animal habitation and forcing un-willing families to participate in what is turning out to be an industrial
size science/lab experiment.

“Canaries being tiny birds would choke and die earlier than a man would. In other words, when the canary was off-color, all hands knew
that trouble was brewing and that they should take action.”

The reason for sending the “canary into the coal mine” was to test the environment. While it was a crude and somewhat cruel form of a
warning device, it was the best they had at the time. If the “canary” came out looking in distress or worse yet did not come out at all, it was
used as a warning sign to keep the miners out of the mine. If you send in one canary and it gets sick, logic and common sense tells you not
to send in another, until you find out what made that first canary sick.

Please keep in mind that the canary did not ask to be sent into the mine in the same respect that non-participating landowners did not ask
to be forced to participate or live in the footprint of an industrial wind energy plant. Fortunately, as a society, we have evolved our
techniques and our ability to do research and testing. If you would use a canary type method today, it would be considered misuse or
abuse of the poor tiny bird. Are you not in the same respect, abusing taxpaying citizens of this state by not treating them with respect, by
refusing to do a study of existing wind energy plants before you allow more to be installed in densely populated rural areas?

One person complaining or one canary getting sick could be a fluke. When there are copious numbers of families complaining about the
same negative health effects, they can’t all be wrong. Their suffering has to be used as the warning sign that something needs to be done.
Please keep in mind that many if not all of the “hosting canaries/landowners” have had their beaks clipped by signing contracts with gag
orders that prevent them from speaking out about their health problems related to the turbines. Ignoring these health complaints is no
better than Toyota ignoring the defects of its vehicles. The wind industry is suffering from the “Toyota Syndrome”. “Ignoring known
negative health effects/risks to people for financial profit”.

In the case of industrial wind turbines, too many canaries have already been sacrificed at existing wind farms not only in Wisconsin but
around the country and the world. You have to stop sending in the canaries, until you figure out what is making them sick. To continue
down this unsafe path is not reasonable by any explanation.

The industrial turbines already installed in existing wind plants here is Wisconsin and around the country and the world, should be used as
the “canary in the coal mine”, as the sign, as the whistle blower, as to the fact that there is a problem and it needs to be addressed before
we send another canary to its demise or in this case allow one more human or animal to suffer the negative effects of industrial wind
turbines. Health problems are, without question being experienced by those in existing wind farms. If you think of this logically and leave
profit and politics out of the equation, look only at health and safety as the statute allows, logic dictates that if the proper research is not
done, proper setbacks and restrictions are not put in place, changes are not made, the canaries future or in this case the future of those
forced to live within the boundaries of an industrial wind energy plant, does not look so good. Or is that first “canary” or all future
“canaries” just “collateral damage”?

The United States Supreme Court has stated that the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is “designed to bar government
from forcing some people alone to bear burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole”

You cannot force upon some, nor do I want myself, my family, friends or neighbors to be the next canary sent into the coal mine.
Legislative authority will not excuse a defendant from liability if the conduct is unreasonable. Fault means that the defendant intentionally,
negligently, or recklessly interfered with the plaintiff's use and enjoyment of the land or that the defendant continued the conduct after
learning of actual harm or substantial risk of future harm to the plaintiff's interest.

One thing that has been lacking in the debate is what to do with those poor families already suffering. Consider it a “recall” on a bad
product. The State of Wisconsin needs to do two things. Prevent this debacle from ever happening to anyone else residing in the State of
Wisconsin and they better seriously look at what they need to do to assist and compensate those families already suffering from the
negligent siting of industrial wind turbines. The way their lives have been ruined is a travesty.

Lynn Korinek
1316 Rockledge Rd
Mishicot, WI 54228

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