Falmouth Massachusetts Wind Turbine Litigation Base Hits vs Home Runs

Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States with expensive litigation playing out like a baseball game. The litigation fees are approaching the purchase price of the turbines.

The only ones with a revenue stream are powerful Beacon Hill law firms. They are winning.

Baseball is about as American as it gets but in Falmouth wind turbine litigation is the only game in town.

Falmouth residents need a fresh perspective on the wind turbine litigation. The town wants to operate the turbines 24/7 vs the neighbors who want the monster megawatt turbines shut off forever. People worldwide living near turbines describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep causing health problems and unable to work on their property during the day if the turbines are in operation.

The key to winning any baseball game is simple, keep your eye on the ball. The objective is to win the game by hitting home runs.The residents who live around the noisy wind turbines for years have been hitting home runs while the town hits base hits or strikes out.

Falmouth has two Vestas V-82 commercial 1.65 megawatt wind turbines named Falmouth Wind I and II. Falmouth Wind I is shut down 24/7 and Falmouth Wind II only operates 6 days of the week 12 hours a day only when the wind blows.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center renegotiated a renewable energy contract for 1.8 million with the town to help pay litigation costs and the Falmouth Town Meeting Members are voting up to $300,000.00 every six months for additional litigation.

Clearly at this point taxpayers need to consider how to best keep an eye on the prize sought by the Town of Falmouth that for seven years has been telling Town Meeting the litigation over the wind turbines is a slam dunk. The aging turbines are barely operational.

To look at the wind turbine litigation as a baseball game we have look at the announcer. The residents around the wind turbines have limited financial resources and can't afford a lobbying firm. On the other hand the town has the local media backing the wind turbine agenda even though if asked in private will admit major mistakes were made. The town also has the Mass Clean Energy Center with its unlimited financial backing to promote the renewable wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.

The Town of Falmouth is clearly the home team and the residents around the wind turbines are viewed as the visitors who the news media aka the announcer wants the crowd to see lose.

Recently the Town of Falmouth got a base hit during a jury trial in which the town won. In previous trials the town has gotten base hits the residents appealed the base hit only to score home runs. The turbines are barely operational today.

The most recent jury trial may be appealed as much of the evidence was not allowed into the trial. The infra sound or what is called nuisance noise or human annoyance was not allowed into the trial because it was too new ?

The US Military and foreign governments have been experimenting with infra sound since World War II.The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used for the first time in the USA in Pittsburgh during the time of G20 summit on September 24-25th, 2009.

In a December 2014 protesters that fell victim to the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) are sued the City of New York, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, and the two officers responsible for deploying the device.

The US Department of Energy and NASA determined infra sound disrupted sleep and caused health problems in Boone, North Carolina in 1979.

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 infra sound noise.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center formerly the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative warned in year 2005 studies about two distinct types of noise from the Vestas V 82 wind turbines that they owned. The noise is regulatory measured in decibels and human annoyance or what is called infra sound.

On appeal the recent jury trial won by the Town of Falmouth will be overturned again with the neighbors again hitting a home run.

Falmouth, Massachusetts is facing nine more lawsuits over the wind turbines. For all intent and purposes you can call all next nine lawsuits innings in a base ball game.

Baseball is a game without a clock only a set number of innings. The question for Falmouth taxpayers today is how many more home runs can the neighbors around the turbines hit while the town continues to strike out.

How long before the Falmouth Select Board figure out "Three strikes you're out "