Falmouth Turbines Strategy of Health - Financial Lies By Omission

Falmouth Wind Turbine # One Finances

In 2004 the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today is known as the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center a semi-quasi state agency purchased a Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbine that produces a chest pounding 110 decibels of noise.

The turbine was purchased with money collected from Massachusetts taxpayers on electric bills called the renewable energy tax your money.

The MassCEC could not sell the Vestas 110 decibel wind turbine so they took another one million in renewable tax money and gave it advance to the Town of Falmouth as an incentive to buy the turbine later to be named Falmouth Wind I. Again your tax money.

The Town of Falmouth purchased the Vestas wind turbine from the MassCEC with your Falmouth town tax dollars financed through bonds or other investment instruments for a turbine that was already purchased by the state agency. Taxpayers are paying for Falmouth Wind I twice plus one million dollars. It was purchased by the state and the Town of Falmouth.

Falmouth Wind Turbine # Two Finances

In 2009 the federal government gave the state of Massachusetts millions and millions of dollars known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This money is federal money your tax dollars.

The money was given as grants to stimulate the economy to the Massachusetts State Revolving Fund (SRF)

The Massachusetts State Revolving Fund (SRF) through a deal brokered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection called a Project Regulatory Agreement lent the Town of Falmouth the stimulus funds which the Town of Falmouth is paying back. Taxpayers are paying for Falmouth Wind II twice. The turbine was purchased with federal grant money (your money) and the Town of Falmouth is paying twice.

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Health Problems # 110 Decibel Wind Turbines

Since 2009 prior to the installations of the turbines every Falmouth Select Board Member, Town Manager and Town Attorney have known of the emails and written warning that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise.

To date, the town has never posted the 2009-2010 warnings: "The Town has previously been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances. "

Hiding this letter created eight years of unnecessary litigation costing taxpayers up to $260,000.00 every six months.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth's Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 20, 2017, as they are a nuisance.

On October 15, 2018 the Falmouth Select Board proposed moving Falmouth Wind II about one half mile to the East .

Shortly after the meeting several days later Robert Rand an acoustic expert sent the Town of Falmouth a letter: "The distance to meet 40 dBA for Wind II, a Vestas V82 with sound power level of 110 dBA, is approximately 891 meters or 2923 feet. This is greater than the setback distances provided by the proposed new location. The proposed new location is still too close."
( Now both the Vestas & Rand warnings remain hidden from the public)

Continue to ignore Health & Safety :

Over the years Select Board Members have played both sides of the fence. The board on one hand continues to ignore health and safety by keeping the Vestas 110 decibel warning letter hidden and failure to produce the new Robert Rand acoustic noise warning for Falmouth Wind II.

In 2017 Susan L. Moran Select Board Chair said: “It's time to put the matter behind us and move forward. ” Today making plans to move Falmouth Wind II to a new loaction ?

In February 2013 Falmouth Selectman Brent Putnam standing in the shadow of Falmouth’s two town-owned wind turbines said he felt a squeeze in the air pressure and heard the loud mechanical noise akin to a jet engine.
“You can feel it,” said Putnam, vice chairman of the board of selectmen. But never released the Vestas 110 decibel noise warning letter to the public.

The Falmouth Board of Health received noise complaints about the wind turbines, low-frequency sound waves, and other effects from the turbines (including) headaches, dizziness, and vertigo among other health problems. The Falmouth Board of Health never released the Vestas 110 decibel warning letter to the public.

Falmouth Wind Turbine: Selectman Doug Jones 3 minutes into recording explained it as vibration or sound pressure that gets reflected off the turbine itself and towards the homes.

"It's not something you can hear," Jones said. "But that's the thing, they say it just makes them feel sick. And that's the one that we don't have scientific evidence to really affirm. But that whole infrasound thing is enough for me to say, I'm not comfortable running them if that's what it's doing to people who live nearby them."

Jones never produced the Vestas 110 decbel noise warning letter
Falmouth Massachusets Recording LISTEN DOUG JONES 3 MINUTES
TURBINE_0521_GBH_1.mp3

https://drive.google.com/file/...

To listen to the recording you can also go to :

https://www.wgbh.org/news/post...

Selectman Murphy said the turbines are in the wrong place for their size, and neighbors are suffering for it. Murphy also never produced the 110 Vestas warning letter

New international regulations

World Health Organization guidelines on noise, there are five significant developments in the 2018 version

Stronger evidence of the cardiovascular and metabolic effects of environmental noise;
The inclusion of new noise sources, namely wind turbine noise.

Noise from wind turbines has been labelled a potential health hazard by researchers at the United Nations .