Antique Turbines Cost Falmouth 1M In Fake State Currency

The Falmouth commercial wind turbines were illegally installed in 2010 and 2012 without permits, zoning board approval and notification to abutters.

The Massachusetts courts in June of 2017 shut down the nuisance turbines each emitting 110 decibels of noise each at least twice as loud as town studies showed.

Falmouth’s two wind turbines will continue to draw upon town taxpayers for years to come.

The state of Massachusetts was the original owner of two foreign-made wind turbines they could not sell at auction. State officials knowingly used one million in "advanced" renewable energy credits as a form of state-issued cash to give the Town of Falmouth one million in state issued RECs to take the turbines off their hands. The RECs were used as a state issued cash redeemable in United States dollars.

To erect Falmouth Wind turbine # 1, state officials may have undoubtedly illegally battered with the Town of Falmouth one million in advance in what is called RECs, renewable energy certificates.

The United States Constitution bans states from printing their own paper money or issuing their own currency. In this case, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative now called the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center a semi quasi-state agency used renewable energy certificates as a state viable cash method to bribe Falmouth officials to take the turbines off their hands.

Renewable energy certificates or credits represent the energy "generated" by renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power facilities. The Massachusetts state agency used one million in renewable energy certificates as "advance payment of energy" that was never produced.

The renewable energy credits were given in advance to the Town of Falmouth to take the turbines the state could not sell at an auction in 2008.

What is even worse for Falmouth Wind turbine # 2 the second turbine, almost $ 5 million was also loaned to Falmouth by the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust, now known as the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust. That money went to Falmouth as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with the 5M principal and interest forgiven as long as the project continued to be “energy efficient.”

The turbines shut down in June of 2017 are no longer energy efficient with 3.5 million-plus 2 percent interest due back to the State Revolving Fund.

The Falmouth Select Board July 10, 2017 decision not to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling that the pair of turbines constituted a nuisance to neighbors requires the town to pay back the ARRA loan as the Mass Clean Water trust previously indicated the money must be repaid if the turbine stops operating!

Beacon Hill is one of the most corrupt places in the USA.

Altogether, the construction amounts to more than 12 million without accounting for legal costs,engineering, and ongoing interest payments. The two 400-foot foreign-made Danish turbines have long served as the subject of massive litigation. Up to 200 neighbors filed lawsuits alleging the commercial turbines negatively affected their health and accusing town officials of failing to secure the proper permits to erect the pair.

In November 2019, Town Meeting agreed to transfer and approve 2.5 million at the request of the select board to disassemble the turbines and lease them out of town. Selectmen at the meeting addressed the financial circumstances while announcing the decision not to appeal, saying they know there would be substantial engineering and litigation costs associated with taking down the turbines in addition to the lost electricity generated by both Wind 1 and Wind 2 as well as the looming debt associated with not running the turbines.

Expenses also include maintenance contracts, insurance, parasitic electric power as the antique gear driven turbines continue to lose value by the day.

What to do with the turbines after the November Town Meeting approval of 2.5 million now that they are no longer operating also remains an unanswered question. The only answer is more money down the road.

Massachusetts state and Falmouth local politicians for over ten years have treated their office as a candy shop for engineering and law firms gouging the taxpayers.

Like kids at an ice cream counter, this politically-connected town filled their cone with soft-serve from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection loan program and then illegally dipped it into the vast vat of taxpayer funding made available through the economic stimulus program (the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA).

Time to stop the insanity ?