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Falmouth Ma. Catastrophic Land-Based Wind Turbine Failures
Barnstable Superior Court Judge and Subsequently the Massachusetts Appeals Court in June 2017 Shut Down Nuisance Falmouth Wind Turbines
Falmouth Building Commissioner Rod Palmer gave town officials until May 31, 2018, to produce a plan for dismantling and removing the mammoth wind turbine that stands on the wastewater treatment plant property.
As of today June 2019 there is NO plan.
Massachusetts had proposed 2000 megawatts of commercial land-based wind turbines or over 1000 megawatt wind turbines in communities across Massachusetts.
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Today there are less than 50 onshore wind installations producing a total of less than 115 megawatts. The reason for the failure is residents in as many as twenty-one communities who live near turbines have complained about noise, a loss of sleep, and subsequent health concerns, and loss of value of their properties.
Prolonged sleep deprivation has been linked to memory loss, hallucination, weakened resistance to pain, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, impaired immune response, extreme anxiety, stress, clinical depression, and suicide. In the most extreme cases, animal experimentation suggests that lack of sleep can kill you. Falmouth residents complain of all these symptoms.
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The Governor of Massachusetts,state legislature and news media failed the public over and over for years putting a wind turbine agenda before the health of the residents of the Commonwealth
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a publicly funded organization has ignored all the safety warnings since its inception.
The Falmouth wind turbine, the first megawatt wind turbine in the state, was sold to the town by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative which today is the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. In order to install the turbine a warning letter from the Vestas wind company that the turbine generates 110 decibels of noise was hidden from the public. The August 2010 letter remains hidden today.
- Scientist Neil Kelley and his team in the mid 1980s thoroughly documented significant adverse health effects resulting from inaudible, very-low-frequency sound produced by a large wind turbine in Boone, N.C. This scientifically rigorous NASA and Department of Energy-sponsored study, in cooperation with MIT and four other prestigious universities looked into complaints from nearby residents about sleep problems along with whooshing and thumping sounds it made.The wind turbine also had complaints of disrupted television line of sight reception.
- In 1979 a wind turbine installation began on Block Island, Rhode Island. This experimental wind turbine on Block Island caused line of sight television interference. In order to operate the turbine the island had to have cable TV installed.
Massachusetts politicians and news media ignored all the warnings
