Falmouth Turbine Trial Draws To End - Omissions Could Affect Outcome

Kema map shows prior to a single wind turbine installation in Falmouth using a General Electric turbine noise levels would exceed 40 decibels of noise on Black Smith Shop Road.

General Electric refused to build turbines in Falmouth due to residential setbacks. The town used a Vestas V 82 turbine twice as loud as the GE turbine used in the Kema map. The town used the GE noise map to install Vestas turbines.

The town failed due diligence and had been warned by Vestas wind turbine company that their turbine Falmouth Wind 1 was twice as loud as the General Electric turbine.

Wind turbine project manager Heather Harper on wind turbines : “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.” The Falmouth Town Meeting Members are aware of the risks and recently voted another $260,000.00 for wind turbine litigation. The town spends up to $300,000.00 every six months on litigation.

Knowing that Falmouth Wind l was too loud to be near residential locations the town went forward building a second wind turbine Falmouth Wind II . This installation for Falmouth Wind II was done with no noise map or noise study. In fact the town had not even considered the noise from both turbines operating together.

It's clear the town avoided the special permit process because it would have required additional studies and notifications to 200 residential home owners.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center wrote a memo in 2013 admitting a flawed noise test prior to the installation of a single commercial wind turbine in Falmouth.

The memo never pointed out that there is no noise test for Falmouth Wind II or both turbines operating together. The information from the MassCEC always omits negative information on commercial wind turbines. The Falmouth wind turbines were installed with a series of omissions and hidden noise warning letters. Far too many to be considered a " mistake. "

Nils Bolgen the wind turbine director for the MassCEC after this memo in 2013 changed setbacks to 2000 feet for a single turbine bringing to almost an end of the commercial wind turbines in heavily populated Massachusetts .

Again the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center avoided or omitted any discussion on the operation of two or more wind turbines near 200 residential homes.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center a state agency has failed the citizens of Massachusetts placing a wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of wind turbine power by the year 2020 before the health and safety of citizens.

What has happened in Falmouth is a repeat of what happened just before World War II.
State officials have convinced the public of the establishment of the New Order, (wind turbine agenda), in which communities all over Massachusetts have to sacrifice a portion of their neighbors in twenty one towns for the wind turbine agenda. State officials call it an all out war on fossil fuels in which citizens have become the collateral damage taking their health and property rights just like World War II.

What else can you call what our elected officials have done to citizens in twenty one communities. At the end of World War II they asked the residents who lived around the camps why they didn't do anything ? The answer was they didn't know. The response to that was didn't you notice 6 million of your neighbors missing.

How much longer NIMBY or what today means Next It May Be You..............

Vote out the corrupt politicians

Quote from memo :
"the original MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth over-estimated the likely acoustic impact, that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions (as is our current, more rigorous practice) which might have identified a potential exceedance of the 10 decibel limit,” the memo reads. “The Falmouth wind turbines are of an older design which does not offer ‘low noise operations’ or other retrofit options.”"