Wind power: funding body spends $3.3m on research into turbines' health impact

National Health and Medical Research Council defends decision after grants attacked as waste of time

An Australian research council has given two grants worth $3.3m to research the impact of wind turbines on human health despite concluding last year there was no evidence turbine noise was harmful.

Prof Anne Kelso, the chief executive of the National Health and Medical Research Council, said it had made the grants because "existing research in this area is of poor quality and targeted funding is warranted to support high-quality, independent research on this issue".