Falmouth, Massachusetts Wind Turbine Lethality - USA

To the majority of Falmouth residents, it is clear that municipal officeholders made an extremely important error when they placed wind turbines as close as 1200 feet from residential homes. Wind turbine debris after blade throw accidents has been documented up to 4200 feet.

The Falmouth situation has been a good example of the pitfalls of siting turbines close to densely populated neighborhoods. Few wind turbines have so many homes so close; at least 184 homes within a half mile, 2600 feet, of these two turbines. The turbines were installed between 2010 and 2012.

General Electric a domestic wind turbine company in 2009 refused to place a single 1.5-megawatt wind turbine in Falmouth because of residential setbacks and ice throw to a nearby highway.

Vestas wind turbine company warned the Town of Falmouth in 2010 prior to construction the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. The town hid the letter and emails for three years until a FOIA, Freedom of Information Act Request in 2013. The town installed Vestas 1.65 megawatt wind turbines.

In 2011 the Chief Executive Officer of Vestas wind company CEO Engel Ditlev wrote a letter to Karen Ellemann about low-frequency noise. The CEO responded that Vestas does not have the technology to stop the noise. Falmouth, Massachusetts has two towns owned Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines.

The "Vestas Confidential Health and safety Instruction manual for a Falmouth MA wind farm" shows company setbacks require 1640 feet for wind turbine blade throw.
"This is evidenced by the Vestas Confidential Health and safety Instruction manual for a Falmouth MA wind farm. Page 10 of this manual addresses the situation of a free spinning "runaway turbine". In that manual, instructions are for no one to be allowed within a 1640 feet (500 m) radius. (See Exhibit 2)"

Caithness also has documented 221 separate incidences of blade failure, with pieces of blades documented to have flown over 1,300 meters—or 4,266 feet (4/5 of a mile). Blade pieces have gone through roofs and walls of nearby buildings.

A partial database of accidents , injuries and deaths through December 2011 has been compiled at the Caithness Wind Farm Information Forum: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/page4.htm

The Cape Cod Commission in 2011 changed a setback of 10 times the rotor diameter of the proposed turbine from the nearest receptor or residentially zoned parcel. This would place setbacks at 3000 feet in the Town of Falmouth to wind turbines for one wind turbine.

Nils Bolgen the program director and facilitator of Falmouth Wind 1 & 2 in May of 2013 changed the setbacks of the commercial wind turbines to 2000 feet statewide. This was partially based on the catastrophic health and property taking issues in Falmouth and other communities.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in 2013 admitted the wind turbines were installed Ad Hoc and "mistakes" were made in the original acoustic noise studies.

Falmouth’s debt for 2 wind turbines could exceed $25 million. Hundreds of thousands more are out of pocket expenses incurred by victims funding lawyers to win a “nuisance” determination by the courts. Damages are now seeking to generate more revenue for lawyers. Citizens from 21 communities have bombarded the state with health complaints.

This scenario plays out town by town, state by state and it’s a worldwide problem. The remedy is inconvenient to the truth. Eliminating wind turbines from the energy mix will eliminate the graft and greed, crony capitalists and organized criminals attracted by public subsidies and “legit” businesses through which to launder their illicit gains. They’ll be gone with the wind if we eliminate the graft and the junk science that keeps the money flowing. Your tax dollars.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth's Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 20, 2017.
The judge denied the appeal brought by Falmouth selectmen against the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals had found the turbines to be a "nuisance."

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ALTONA, N.Y. —Photos taken from a plane by Mike and Victor Fellion

ALTONA — Many residents were shocked that a massive wind-turbine could come tumbling down and officials say it could take months to learn why one collapsed Friday.Mike Fellion flew over the wreckage Saturday morning and was amazed to see that pieces of the structure appeared to have been thrown “about a quarter-mile away.”

1/4 mile equals 1300 feet.

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