Falmouth Select Board Obfuscation Continues Same Old Same Old

Falmouth Select Board Stymied Town Being Sued

Select Board Continues To to Confuse, Bewilder, and Stupefy the Public Over Wind Turbines

June 8 2015

The Falmouth Select Board met for several hours today over the ill fated Vestas 1.65 megawatt wind turbines. Again no decisions were made.

The Town of Falmouth petitioned the states highest court to review a recent legal defeat in its ongoing battle over two municipal wind turbines. The town lost again.

The Massachusetts Superior Court has ruled the town broke its own bylaws and avoided the special permit process to construct the wind turbines. The town had been advised prior to any construction by 2005 Kema, Inc. & Ecology & Environment, Inc that they would need a special permit. The Cape Cod Commission Model Bylaw for Wind Turbines Facilities issued in 2004 also recommended a special permit.

In an April 2, 2013 Memo from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to Falmouth Select Board & Town Manager errors were admitted. The MassCEC admitted the commissioned study over-estimated the likely acoustic impact. Nils Bolgen the wind project engineer in June of 2013 said the Falmouth wind turbines were installed Ad Hoc and now the MassCEC looks at setbacks 2000 feet plus.

An August 3, 2010 letter recently released through the Freedom of Information Act shows the turbines are twice as loud as the specifications at 110 decibels. The 110 decibels equate to a hard rock band playing outdoors 24/7.

The State of Massachusetts has found the turbines out of regulatory noise compliance.

The Barnstable Superior Court has found the turbines are a nuisance.

The site of the turbines include around 200 residential homes. Not everyone has made complaints because victims are made to write certified complaint forms more or less branding the residents as against the town. Many worry about future permits, inspections or being singled out as a complainer. There have been hundreds if not thousands of certified complaints.


The Mass CEC is now acting as judge and jury deciding in Massachusetts litigation cases that it will pay the litigation fees for the side they feel will further the state renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy. They are using customers electric rate bill tax money to finance the town

.The Mass CEC will not pay the litigation fees for home owners who have filed litigation to shut down the turbines over health, noise and shadow flicker issues. The MassCEC deems these people guilty of complaining

Here is a portion of a press release from the Mass CEC stating they will pay for the Town of Falmouth litigation fees : “With this funding, MassCEC seeks to help the town recover costs associated with project curtailment. To date the town has incurred unexpected costs resulting from community concerns, voluntary reductions in operation due to unanticipated sound levels and related litigation.”

http://www.masscec.com/news/energy-officials-approve-relief-funding-falmouth-community-wind-project

The Falmouth Select Board will meet again Thursday June 11, 2015 at 4 PM

Obfuscation continues- the act or an instance of making something obscure, dark, or difficult to understand