Falmouth Taxpayers 2.5 Million Wind Turbine A "Slam Dunk"

April 6, 2010, Falmouth wind turbine number 1 started operation.

The wind turbine is a Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbine known today as Falmouth Wind I.

General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused to place a wind turbine because of ice throw and residential setbacks.

Vestas also had previously provided the Town of Falmouth with the noise performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that it may produce up to 110 decibels which is twice as loud as the General Electric wind turbine.

As soon as the turbine started to operate noise complaints started.

As of June 7, 2010, Mary Pat Flynn was Chairperson of the Falmouth Select Board

On June 15, 2010, Sound Study log sheets were mailed to nearly 300 residents in the vicinity of Wind I to gather anecdotal information from residents.

August 3, 2010, Vestas sent a written letter to the wastewater superintendent: Dear Mr. Potamis,
"Due to the sound concerns regarding the first wind turbine installed at the wastewater treatment facility, the manufacturer of the turbines, Vestas, is keen for the Town of Falmouth to understand the possible noise and other risks associated with the installation of the second wind turbine."

It is demonstrable fact that then-Governor Deval Patrick a wind turbine advocate appointed a wind turbine CEO as the green policy Advisor, who had foreknowledge, before wind turbine installations.

In September of 2010, Assistant Town Manager and wind turbine manager Heather Harper working at the direction of the select board stated this about the wind turbine: "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,"

October 30, 2010 - Entering the final week on the re-election campaign trail, Patrick-Murray campaign momentum continued to grow with Selectman Mary Pat Flynn, Falmouth Board of Selectmen endorsing Governor Patrick and Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray.

As of October 30, 2010 everyone in Falmouth government knew the turbine was too loud and knew it was a gamble and went forward installing a second wind turbine another 110 decibel Vestas V-82 nuisance wind turbine. This time Falmouth Wind II was installed with a Project Regulatory Agreement a 5 million loan arranged by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection using State Reserve Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The ARRA funds should never have been used after General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused for safety reasons. The town in order to get a waiver to buy the Vestas foreign wind turbine II told federal regulators that a domestic wind turbine was not available but neglected to tell the federal regulators GE refused due to residential setbacks and ice throw on a nearby highway. This is called lying by omission.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform at that time had called for an actual war of fossil fuels and carbon emissions. The party called for fighting carbon emissions as a real war which has resulted in collateral damage. That collateral damage resulted in taking health and property rights of Falmouth residents and taxpayer resources for the last ten years.

The installation of the Falmouth wind turbines was the quickest way to achieve the state's renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.

Many elected officials in Massachusetts have misinterpreted the party platform war on fossil fuels as giving the commercial wind industry a free pass on Massachusetts rules, regulations and the keys to Massachusetts and all its cities and towns.

Massachusetts and many towns are ignoring their own bylaws, zoning and health regulations to help achieve the state renewable energy agenda.

The result has been loss of health and constitutional residential property rights by the abutters to the wind turbines.

Both town-owned wind turbines have not operated since multiple Massachusetts courts in June 2017 ordered that the pair of nuisance wind turbines shut down.

Governor Charlie Baker admitted to Congress when asked about noise, shadow flicker and declined property values in Falmouth admitted the state screwed up.

Fall Town Meeting November 12, 2019, Falmouth will again be asked to fund 2.5 million to remove the town's wind turbine “white elephants.”