Falmouth Officials Bamboozled Citizens Over Wind Turbines

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, MTC is today the MassCEC, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

The MassCEC wrote a CYA memo on April 2, 2013, admitting flawed noise tests prior to the 2010 installations of any commercial wind turbines in Falmouth. They wrote the memo because the Town of Falmouth was about to vote on taking down the turbines.

The April 2, 2013, a memo was never made public and the Town of Falmouth in May of 2013 voted not to take down their two town-owned wind turbines. The voting public was fooled again warning letters, emails, memos, maps, and documents were hidden from the public.

The memo :

The original MTC now the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center prior to the installations of the wind turbines commissioned a feasibility study for Falmouth which underestimated the likely acoustic impact, "that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions which might have identified a potential exceedance of the 10 decibel limit", as stated in the memo . Also, the Falmouth wind turbines are of an older design which does not offer 'low noise operations' or other retrofit options.

Nils Bolgen the wind turbine director for the MassCEC after this memo and a week after the Falmouth town-wide vote not to take down the turbines in 2013 changed setbacks to 2000 feet.

The memo has never been made public to this day. Why not ?

The map:

To add insult to injury to Town of Falmouth residents and taxpayers is a map paid for by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center back in 2005 by KEMA Incorporated.

The map clearly shows decibel levels using a 103.5 decibel General Electric wind turbine that noise levels would exceed 40 to 50 decibels on Black Smith Shop Road.

General Electric refused to build a single wind turbine in 2009 because of residential setbacks and ice throw.

The Falmouth Energy Committee, Select Board, and various town officials went forward buying and even larger foreign made 110 decibel Vestas wind turbine twice as loud as the General Electric wind turbine. This increased the decibel levels to near 60 decibels on Black Smith Shop Road. These type wind turbines on a decibel scale are twice as loud as those used in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center KEMA Inc study.

The town then went forward building a second wind turbine, Falmouth Wind II, just as loud as Falmouth Wind I. This increased the decibel levels again!

Falmouth officials have for years been asking Town Meeting Members for up to $300,000.00 every six months for litigation money to defend the wind turbine noise.

You've been had. You've been taken. You've been hoodwinked and Bamboozled.

Map shows white box with 40 decibels based on a 2005 General Electric wind turbine -Vestas turbines installed after 2010 are twice as loud !

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