FALMOUTH 6 MONTH WIND TURBINE PAYMENTS DUE APRIL RESCHEDULED MEETING

Falmouth Select Board Meeting 2/8/2016 Rescheduled 

Board of Selectmen Agenda for: 02-11-2016

http://www.falmouthmass.us/agenda.php?depkey=selectmen&number=7804
TOWN OF FALMOUTH
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
AGENDA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016 – 6:00 P.M.
SELECTMEN’S MEETING ROOM

6:00 p.m. OPEN SESSION

6:00 p.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION

2. M.G.L. c.30A s.21(a)(3) – Litigation – Wind Turbine Litigation, Andersen Case

7:30 p.m. BUSINESS
4. Vote Articles and Execute Warrant – April 2016 Annual Town Meeting and Special Town Meeting

COMMENTARY :

A wind turbine article will surely appear on the warrant for Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting April 4 and 5 , 2016.

There may in fact be multiple articles.

Falmouth wind turbine number one has been shut down since October of 2015.

The Town of Falmouth faces multiple lawsuits over the wind turbines and one of which could be heard within the next few weeks in Barnstable Superior Court.

The Falmouth Select Board will start warrant deliberations Monday February 8, 2016. Every six months for years Town Meeting has been asked to tackle this ongoing problem.

Taxpayers are going to keep on paying . The original purchase price of two Vestas V 82 commercial megawatt wind turbines purchased by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in 2004 was 5.2 million.

The litigation of the turbines and negotiations has surely surpassed the origanal purchase price. A failure in basic economics (101)

Here is a safe bet for the April 2016 Town Meeting Members :

A . An article to appropriate the transfer of money to the town’s energy receipts reserve to cover costs incurred by stopping Wind 1.

B. An article seeking to increase the town’s legal budget, due to labor and wind turbine litigation expenses.

Notwithstanding this heavy wind tax burden every six months, the political elites in Falmouth have previously put forward numerous proposals to raise taxes even higher., Apparently, it has never occurred to them that perhaps they should address the endemic waste, fraud and abuse that permeates all levels of government.

More than 45 Falmouth residents have complained to the town’s Board of Selectmen about a noise described as torture. The Falmouth wind turbines have blown up a political storm in Massachusetts that has resonated throughout the wind energy industry worldwide.

The Falmouth residential home owners are the original stakeholders. Massachusetts made a catastrophic mistake placing commercial megawatt wind turbines too close to residential homes

With residential home owners and landowners increasingly resistant to energy projects in their proverbial backyards, law suits alleging nuisance are on the rise. Commercial megawatt wind turbine projects are not immune.

Public nuisance claims continue to appear in environmental lawsuits. Massachusetts residents describe wind turbine noise as torture.

State Constitutional Law Environmental plaintiffs may invoke state constitutional provisions about the environment more frequently after Massachusetts created a second class group of citizens living far too close to wind turbines.

Dismantle the turbines, stop the mounting financial catastrophe