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Falmouth TM Article 27 Mystery -AG Hears Wind Turbine Complaints
Attorney general's chief legal counsel, Richard A. Johnston and Stephen W. Marshalek, heard and received ,texts, letters wind documents.
Last night at Falmouth Town Meeting Article 27 was dropped and quickly dismissed by Town Meeting.
The Town of Falmouth has spent hundreds of thousands on litigation for two of the worst placed commercial megawatt wind turbines in the United States. The town had known prior to the installations the turbines would break Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection regulations.
Article 27 called for the removal of the " impediments" of the operation of the megawatt turbines by the end of 2016. The 200 residential neighbors who are the original stakeholders of their residential property prior to the installation of the turbines appeared to be the " impediments." The article would have been the start of a 5 to 8 year contested Eminent Domain litigation case of the neighbors who describe the noise as torturous against the town who illegally placed the turbines with no permits.
While Town Meeting was going on in Falmouth local residents met with Attorney General Maura Healy's Energy and Environment Bureau. The AGO's new Energy and Environmental Bureau is an advocate and resource for the Commonwealth and its residents including protecting consumers, combating fraud and corruption and protecting civil rights.
The attorney general’s chief legal counsel, Richard A. Johnston and Stephen W. Marshalek, who heads the attorney general’s district office in New Bedford along with other state attorneys and staff heard grievances over state and local lack of enforcing laws and ignoring complaints of citizens plagued by wind turbine noise in Falmouth and twenty one other communities.
Attorneys received oral information, copies of texts and letters spelling out the various problems uncovered in the years the Falmouth project has been disputed over a six year period. Falmouth currently has over nine litigation cases over the wind turbines.
Requests were made for judicial oversight of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and an end to the obfuscation by state and local agencies charged with protecting the environment. The environment belongs to everyone including those that live around the megawatt turbines.
The state has created a group of second class citizens in twenty one communities with poorly placed megawatt wind turbines
Attorney General Maura Healey is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
