Falmouth # 1 In Nation To Take Down Tortourous Wind Turbines

Massachusetts

This turbine was truly a failed community effort as documents, emails, warning letters, and even memos were omitted from public view.

The "Smoking Gun" letter was the August 3, 2010 letter the town had previously been warned about the noise:"The Town has previously ( before August of 2010 ) been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances."

The town voted without knowing all the negative facts overwhelmingly to support the project, and even school children got involved. The turbine was to be installed in 2010.

The first failure was when the Falmouth Energy Committee sponsored a “Name the Wind Turbine” contest. A local student was the winner, dubbing the turbine “Aeolus,” after the Greek ruler of the winds.

The turbine should have been named Mesperyian: In ancient Greek literature the Goddess of Punishment and Torture.

The state and local officials and Select Board the legal owners of the turbine decided on the name "Falmouth Wind I " after all these officials had all the documents showing the turbine was twice as loud as the Energy Committee KEMA study from 2005 showed.

Funding for the turbine came from a variety of sources including an unusual source of funding. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center advanced one million dollars in renewable energy credits to the town of Falmouth.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) acted as a bank and independent governmental entity within, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs overseen by the Governor of Massachusetts.

The first and second 1.65 MW Vestas wind turbine, located at the town’s wastewater treatment plant, was expected to produce a majority of the electricity consumed annually by the town’s municipal buildings, saving the town up to a million a year on energy costs and making Falmouth one of the leading “clean energy” towns in the Commonwealth.

The second town turbine was worse than the first as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 terms and conditions show the town owes 5 million on the turbine and created "a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety related to the implementation or use of covered funds."

Despite the clean energy leadership the omission of multiple negative documents to the public, lack of permits, and abutter notifications led to the loss of ten million dollars.

Falmouth Wind I was installed in 2010 and Falmouth Wind II installed in 2012 both lacked Special Permits 240-166 and were permanently shut down by the courts in June of 2017.

Falmouth first town in the nation to put up two commercial wind turbines and first to take them down.

A growing anti-wind movement says giant turbines have gone up without sufficient research into health impacts. In the rush to embrace wind power, have the people who live among the wind farms been forgotten?

WIND RUSH :::::::::