Falmouth Loses 1 Million - Wind Turbines On Horizon

The Town of Falmouth just lost another one million dollars in a Falmouth Conservation Commission lawsuit.

According to news media sources the Falmouth Conservation agent refereed all questions to Town Council Frank Duffy.

The Falmouth Select Board will meet in executive session this Monday to see if they will appeal the Conservation Commission court decision.

The Town of Falmouth has wind turbine lawsuits lined up at the front door and down the street. There are so many litigation cases the public has lost track of how many active cases are going on.

The Town of Falmouth has again filed litigation against its own zoning board over wind turbines in Superior Court and has a case in Land Court it's safe to say the town has wind turbine lawsuits in several different courts if not all the courts.

The cost of litigation is near if not more than the original cost of the Falmouth Wind I turbine.

The residents of Falmouth appear to be asleep like the novel written by Steven King called the Langoliers. The novel is about passengers asleep on a plane bound for Boston that begin to wake up. People are driven insane by the fear of the Langoliers. In Falmouth the Langoliers have become the two town owned wind turbines on litigation autopilot. More litigation is planned for 2017. Probably time to wake up ?

It was only one month ago on November 15 that Town Meeting Members voted another $ 440,000.00 for litigation which they were assured the town has under control and has a great chance of winning. The money appropriated by Town Meeting is for litigation preparation.

The Town of Falmouth in the wind turbine cases has to face a noise warning letter from the manufacturer of the wind turbines that the turbines are twice as loud as the turbines used in noise studies. The letter remained hidden for five years until a Freedom of Information Act request. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has admitted in 2013 acoustic noise "mistakes" in the Falmouth study. The 2005 KEMA noise study map shows decibel readings on Black Smith Shop road would exceed 40 decibels and using the Vestas turbine the town bought brings those readings near 50 decibels.The Massachusetts Dept of Environmental Protection has found the turbines break state noise regulations and emails show Vestas wind company was concerned over the noise levels.

General Electric a domestic wind turbine manufacturer refused to build a single wind turbine in Falmouth.

The town filed an EPA waiver to buy a foreign made Vestas turbine called Falmouth Wind II. The money was from ARRA stimulus funds which required the EPA waiver. The town never made it clear in the EPA waiver the two town wind turbines generated a chest pounding 110 decibels of noise.

There is no preliminary noise tests for Falmouth Wind II or both turbines operating together.

The mediator most recently hired for the Town of Falmouth for the wind turbine mediation was instructed to request the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center be involved in the mediation process.

The Falmouth Wind Turbine Options Analysis negotiations overseen by the Consensus Building Institute spent $136,000.00 of taxpayer funds on the same mediation suggested by the new town wind turbine mediator.

The September 12, 2012 WTOP-CBI meeting discussed the federal stimulus money or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds used to build Falmouth Wind II. That video remains lost and never seen on local Falmouth Community Television. The status of the funds for Falmouth Wind II remains a "loan/grant." The town is paying back a loan with taxpayer funds. The grant part has never been fully explained to the public

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At semi annual town meeting November 15, 2016 Falmouth town attorney Frank Duffy blamed the Massachusetts court system for the need for $ 440,000.00 in additional litigation expenses. The $440,000.00 included $260,000.00 for more wind turbine litigation. Falmouth Town Meeting meets semi annually asking for up to $300,000.00 every six months for litigation fees.

Town Attorney Frank Duffy on local TV during Falmouth Town Meeting See Article 18 request for $ 440,000.00 for litigation at 23 to 27 minute mark-- $ 260,000.00 for wind turbines

Falmouth Local Community TV -- 23 to 27 minute mark - Courts holding up wind turbine litigation

http://www.fctv.org/v3/vod/town-meeting-fall-2016-night-two-111516

Article 18 -- Nov 15 --$260,000.00 more for wind turbine litigation

The neighbors in Falmouth describe the wind turbine noise as torture from lack of sleep