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Falmouth Gives Up On Turbines Needs 2.5 Million To Remove
Falmouth Select Board will ask Town Meeting Members on November 12, 2019, for 2.5 million to dismantle and disassemble both wind turbines
Falmouth Gives Up On Turbines Needs 2.5 Million To Remove
The Falmouth Select Board will ask Town Meeting Members on November 12, 2019, for 2.5 million to dismantle and disassemble both wind turbines
WARRANT FOR THE NOVEMBER ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Tuesday, November 12, 2019, AT 7:00 p.m.
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ARTICLE 14: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to initiate the process of disposition of the Wind Turbines which includes dismantling, relocation, engineering, permitting and other related costs, and to determine how the same shall be raised and by whom expended. Or do or take any other action on the matter. On request of the Board of Selectmen.
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http://www.falmouthmass.us/DocumentCenter/View/6536/2019-Annual-Town-Meeting-Warrant-Nov-12-2019
Falmouth Enterprise -CapeNews.Net October 19, 2019
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"The committee also recommended appropriating $2.5 million to fund the disposition of the town’s two wind turbines."
“The $2.5 million is to dismantled and disassemble,” Town Manager Julian M. Suso said. “It is not even to relocate them at this point.”
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State of the Town: Falmouth Wind Turbine Update
Former Selectman Brent Putnam was on the board in 2010. At Falmouth Town Meeting November 10, 2015, Brent told Town Meeting this about residents around the turbines:
"And they're going to continue to fight this. They'd been fighting this when I was a selectman, they're fighting this now and I'm not a selectman. They have a vested interest in this, ladies and gentlemen, that most of us don't. And they, as just pointed out, they're continuing to spend their own money and their own energy and their own time to fight this, and guess what? They're winning."
"When I was on the Board, we were given legal advice and, quite frankly, looking back on it
-- because hindsight always is 20-20, isn't it --we were told,"No problem, slam dunk", and then we lost."Oh, no problem, slam dunk", and then we lost. And then we lost and then we lost."
"And right now, Folks, we're looking at several articles here that are asking us to spend more money. One article that's asking us to retroactively rezone the property so we can win a battle that we've lost. This is really getting comical, if not, as one recent writer pointed out, absurd."
