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Falmouth Officials Aware Of Wind Turbine Gamble: Can Afford It !
Heather Harper: "We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we're a large community and I think we can take on that risk,"
Heather Harper, wind turbine manager and acting town manager, September 2010 one month after Vestas sent Falmouth written noise warnings : “We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we’re a large community and I think we can take on that risk,”
The Town of Falmouth in August of 2010 one month prior to the Heather Harper announcement about taking huge risk received and hid for five years the Vestas 110 decibel noise warning letter that they were previously warned about the 110 decibels of noise.
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https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/09/11/brewster-officials-take-a-wind-turbine-tour/
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The Town of Falmouth used public funds to make large wagers and gamble on turbines they knew were 110 decibels twice as loud as General Electric 103 decibel commercial wind turbines. Seven decibels equates to a doubling of the noise a basic principle.
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Local officials gambled thought they had the knack for picking a winner with taxpayer money.
Falmouth officials today are aware losing and gambling go hand in hand, and using taxpayers’ dollars to bet on megawatt turbines is as irresponsible as it would be to “invest” those dollars at the blackjack table or crap game. They put your money in a slot machine.
Falmouth gambled with public funds — funds that could have gone to legitimate public services.
This was poor economic stewardship. It’s a public taxpayer rip off, and it ought to end.
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Hidden Documents :
Town knew about 110 decibels of noise 2010:
August 3, 2010 Mr. Gerald Potamis-
"The Town has previously been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances."
http://www.windaction.org/post...
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Later in 2013 a memo from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center shows in fact the original noise tests for Falmouth Wind 1 had major acoustic noise mistakes using 103 decibel General Electric wind turbines used in the KEMA study.
The MassCEC is aware the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. They were the original owners and had all the specifications.
“Falmouth Wind 1 was one of the earliest municipally-owned megawatt scale wind turbines installed in Massachusetts. Even though the original MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth over-estimated the likely acoustic impact, that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions (as is our current, more rigorous practice) which might have identified a potential exceedance of the 10 decibel limit,” the memo reads.
To make matters worse the federal government should never allowed a 6 million dollar stimulus loan on Falmouth Wind II until the town had Special Permit 240-166 as stated in the federal EPA waiver.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/04/03/details-on-masscecs-april-2-memo-on-falmouth-turbines/
The Town of Falmouth is spending up to $300,000.00 every six months on wind turbine litigation
The Falmouth wind turbines are a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The people who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government.
