Falmouth -New Bedford Common Denominator Wind Turbine Lawsuits

New Bedford Ocean Port A Scrap Metal Junk Yard

The news media refuses to report wind turbines have one common denominator millions of dollars in wind turbine litigation at taxpayer expense.

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Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in North America taking the health and property rights of its citizens.

Prior to the installations of the Falmouth wind turbines noise warnings found in previous boiler plate wind studies were deleted. The town hid noise warning letters and any negative documents.The town hid the documents to avoid filing special permits that would have alerted abutters

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center was the original owners of the wind turbines. The poor installation caused twenty one other communities to have poorly placed wind turbines.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has admitted in a 2013 memo the Falmouth wind turbines were installed Ad Hoc and the acoustic noise tests done for the first wind turbine Falmouth Wind I was flawed. There was no acoustic noise test for the second turbine Falmouth Wind II and no tests for both turbines operating together.

Falmouth has eleven ongoing lawsuits over the turbines. The town has sued its self twice costing up to $300,000.00 every six month in litigation fees.

The land based wind turbine projects are a health and financial fiasco.
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New Bedford, Massachusetts started to build and ocean wind turbine port in 2012 at a proposed cost of 35 million.

Today the news media reports the ocean wind terminal is complete at 113 million dollars. The question today is how far can the media stretch the truth.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center like the Falmouth health and fiasco is involved in the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal financial fiasco.

The bond payments at taxpayer expense are $187,500.00 a month for 30 years and the port remains incomplete.

The terminal sits idle as the MassCEC has for two years been unable to find a port operator.

The MassCEC filed for a Tiger Grant to build a rail link to the terminal. The grant was never awarded and the port has no rail link.

There are no large walking cranes at the port .

The MassCEC will only say this is part of " phase two." This leaves the taxpayer to wonder if the local media calls the port complete how many "phases" are there going to be ?

The hurricane gate only has a legal opening of 120 feet and has the largest fishing fleet on the east coast.

The channel outside the hurricane gate for five miles needs one million cubic yards of material with PCBs dredged as the channel can only be used at high tide.

The local politicians and media tout the terminal complete ?

Recently Cashman Dredging and Marine Co., of Quincy, and New Jersey-based Weeks Marine Inc. filed a 23 million dollar civil complaint July 22 in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston. The litigation alleges that MassCEC misrepresented the scope and conditions of dredging work

October 6 according to court records the defendant, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center answered with a counter claim.

Falmouth has been in litigation for 5 years over the land based wind turbines now we see another 5 years of lawsuits by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in New Bedford.

How much longer before taxpayers wake up ?

Today the terminal is being used as a metal junk yard.

Next time you go to get new tires or pay a bill think of that $ 187,500.00 a month bond payment for 30 years on the so called complete ocean wind turbine port

In July of 2008 Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi was the architect of Green Communities Act.

In 2011 Sal DiMasi was convicted and sent to a federal prison for eight years for steering contracts to a software firm in exchange for $65,000.