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Ex-Governor Faces Uphill Battle As Falmouth Votes On Wind Turbine Article 14 Tonight

Former Democrat Governor Deval Patrick faces renewable financial fiasco from the 58 million Evergreen Solar project at the old military base at Ft. Devens to health problems installing commercial megawatt wind turbines under his watch.
The Falmouth wind turbines are both an ongoing health and financial fiasco with as many as eleven different types of litigation over ten years
The Town of Falmouth is contemplating moving two foreign-made megawatt wind turbines designed in the 1990s. Both turbines are gear-driven wind turbines. The town proposes spending 2.5 million to take down the turbines and put them in storage. This is more than the cost of the first town owned wind turbine #1.
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Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed commercial megawatt wind turbines in the United States due to decisions by the executive branch of government under the management of former Governor Deval Partick from 2007 to 2015.
The Town of Falmouth with the help of the MassDEP installed two foreign commercial megawatt wind turbines using the American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus funds that cannot be used if a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. The MassDEP brokered a loan agreement between the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust to build the second Falmouth V-82 wind turbine for 5 million dollars.
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The 5 million loans called a PRA, Project Regulatory Agreement or power production agreement is due plus interest as the turbine no longer produces power. The MassDEP brokered loan had no safety guidelines for noise and became stuck in regulatory capture.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under control of the executive branch of government-controlled directly by the Governor of Massachusetts.
MassDEP is responsible for protecting the environment in the state. Its areas of responsibility include preventing pollution of air, water, and ground; protecting wetlands; waste and recycling issues; regulating hazardous materials, and reducing climate change.
The Massachusetts courts shut down the two Falmouth V-82 wind turbines in June of 2017. Both 110-decibel wind turbines and twenty-one other communities suffer today from poorly placed wind turbines installed on former Governor Deval Patrick and his Mass Department of Environmental Protection.
The former Governor Deval L. Patrick testified during the federal trial of former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal Dimasi the father of the Green Community Act. Sal was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for corruption. At one point, during the trial it was revealed that Patrick used the code name sally.reynolds@state.ma.us on his state email address.
The sally.reynolds@state.ma.us emails have never been released by the state
Falmouth Town Meeting votes tonight.