Falmouth Massachusetts Wind Turbines Incendiary

The Falmouth wind turbine noise leads to annoyance, sleep disorders, and lowered general health. The Falmouth Zoning Board and Massachusetts Superior Court agree the turbines are a nuisance and shut them down.

Scientist Neil Kelley and his team by 1987 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 2005 the University of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today known as the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center defined two distinct types of wind turbine nuisance noise as regulatory measured in decibels and human annoyance or today know as low-frequency infrasound. They had known about the types of noise since the Neil Kelly study in 1987.

In 2005 the residents of Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester, Massachusetts in a wind turbine study were warned of two distinct types of wind turbine noise. A. "Regulatory compliance" and B."Human annoyance." Residents in those towns refused to have wind turbines shoved down their throats in residential locations. The state dropped all plans and moved on to unsuspecting Falmouth residents.

The warning of " Human Annoyance" aka low-frequency infrasound can be found in research supported by the US Department of Energy. Dr. Neil Kelly and his colleagues in 1987 identified impulsive low-frequency noise. The wind turbine infrasound and vibration produced " Human Annoyance " within neighbors homes in Boone, North Carolina. Neighbors of the turbines described the noise as a whomping sound and a feeling.

The noise warnings of two distinct types of noise were dropped from the preliminary Falmouth wind turbine studies along with documents that show the Falmouth wind turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. The warning was replaced with the warning that 99 residential homes could be affected by noise.

The Falmouth public has never seen the year 2010 Vestas 110 decibel warning letter, associated emails and a 2013 memo from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center admitting acoustic noise mistakes in the original noise data. The town has a KEMA Inc map from 2005 that shows the two town-owned wind turbines generate more than 50 decibels of noise on Blacksmith Shop Road.

The Town of Falmouth is about to hire a wind turbine consultant for $20,000.00.

The town has never released the year 2010 Vestas 110 decibel noise warning letter to the public.

Why would any Falmouth resident believe the town would release any negative findings of a wind turbine consultant today.

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Note # the "Friends of Falmouth Wind" have appealed the June 2017 order to shut down the nuisance wind turbines. The Barnstable Superior Court denied the appeal as they have no standing and filed the appeal 5 months too late. The "Friends" have filed another appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Litigation continues and one way or another the taxpayers are paying the litigation bills.

When an appeal is filed, the Appeals Court justices read the appealing parties’ written arguments, referred to as “briefs," and in many cases also hear their arguments in a court session called an “oral argument.” They do not retry the cases or make factual determinations at oral argument, and only review decisions for errors of law and whether the errors made affected the outcome of the case decided below. Winning this appeal is highly unlikely.

TOWN OF FALMOUTH vs. FALMOUTH ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS & others

Docket Number 2018-P-0104

Link to most recent appeal:

http://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/search_number.php?dno=2018-P-0104&get=Search