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Falmouth Study Shows Fatal Flaws In Wind Turbine Notifications
Only 1 of 10 residents aware the town was building a wind turbine prior to the installations. Only ten percent learned by meetings or notice
Falmouth study shows half town unaware town was building wind turbines
Only 1 out of 10 respondents where even aware the town was building a wind turbine. In other words only 10 percent of respondents said they learned from a town hall meeting or notice,
Today half the town believes the property levels have decreased
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Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA 02155,
Article history: Received 11 January 2014 Received in revised form 14 September 2015 Accepted 21 September 2015 Keywords: Wind energy Community acceptance NIMBY
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The pattern of having respondents from Falmouth express the highest level of disagreement with the positive socioeconomic contributions of wind energy decreasing one's electric bill, providing financial benefits to the town, or creating jobs while expressing the highest level of agreement with the negative effects decreasing property values or harming the tourist industry in towns observed in the answers to the socioeconomic questions (Table 7).
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Table 7 Decreases property values Strongly agree and agree ( Falmouth ) 48 percent
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While the majority (74%) of Hull respondents say they found out about their project during planning, more than half of Falmouth and Kingston respondents learned about the project during construction or during operation, but not prior to the groundbreaking. Asked about their sources of information, two-thirds of respondents from Falmouth indicated they learned from the media, compared to slightly more than a third from the Hull and Kingston respondents.
Despite the town of Falmouth efforts to supply adequate and timely information about the project, only one out of ten respondents said they learned from a town hall meeting or notice, and none from the town's energy committee, which was one of the main driving forces behind the decision for siting the turbines, compared to 37% of Hull respondents say they found out about the project in their town from an official source
Table 8 Procedural category First hear about the project when? During planning ( Falmouth) 49 percent
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