Falmouth Wind Turbine Advocates Addicted To Hopium

When is it time to stop being a Sucker ?

Over the years there are example after example that the Falmouth wind turbines should never have been built.

The problem for years is the citizens of Falmouth just don't get it you have been had over and over again with the wind turbines. The noise study, cost, production,hidden documents and finances you name it and now the attorneys are all buying another brand new Mercedes-Benz at your expense.

There is a theory that might help to unify everyone in these difficult times: What all Americans really, really hate is to be a sucker. How much longer can Falmouth Town Meeting vote $260,000.00 every six months for wind turbine litigation ?

Falmouth citizens were led to believe the second town owned wind turbine, Wind II, project was funded through an ARRA grant with 100% forgiveness of the principal and interest, which is, therefore, a grant from the federal government for a fixed maximum cost. Everyone in town voted for the project because they thought they had nothing to lose or at least that was what they were told.

The overall project cost for the second turbines was estimated at approximately $4.9 million. The turbine was funded by ARRA–Federal Stimulus and managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection–State Revolving Fund through a 0% Loan with 100% debt forgiveness ? Don't think so !

The problem today is the town is paying back a $4.9 million dollar loan on Falmouth Wind II at zero percent interest. The town over the years has issued many statements about what really happened. It was not a grant at all it was a loan/grant and sold to the town taxpayers by local politicians as stimulus money and taxpayers had nothing to lose voting for a second wind turbine.

The stimulus money is federal money which was your money in the first place.

No matter how you look at it the town is paying back a $4.9 million dollar loan. You the taxpayers are making the payments. Your paying twice there is no free lunch.

Taxpayers need after six years to start asking questions.

The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) held the Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process at a cost of $139,000.00 to taxpayers over 26 meetings to mitigate the wind turbines. All the meetings were video taped and shown on Falmouth local community TV. The September 12, 2012 video questioned the loan/grant status of Falmouth Wind II remains missing never seen.

The September 12, 2012 WTOP meeting was filmed by an individual listed on the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center data base as a contractor for renewable energy.

The Consensus Building Institute or the Town of Falmouth has ever told the public all the tapes shown on local TV have been edited by omitting the video tape which remains " lost."

The problem with the Falmouth wind turbines is the history of hidden noise warning letters, memos, and just losing anything they don't want you to see.

Why has no one ever told anyone in town the September 12, 2012 video with the loan slash grant money for Falmouth Wind II is missing ?

Next : Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in an April of 2013 memo admitted they made noise " mistakes " in the pre-construction acoustic noise studies for commercial wind turbines in Falmouth

There are no noise studies for Falmouth Wind II or both turbines operating together.

In addition to the April memo all those involved in the construction of the foreign made Vestas wind turbines were aware prior to construction that both turbines are 7 decibels louder than specifications . The 7 decibels equates to a doubling of noise greater than General Electric wind turbines used as models it noise studies.

Quote from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center memo : "Even though 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 KEMA maps also showed that using a Vestas wind turbine would bring decibels levels near 50 decibels on Black Smith Shop Road

The residents of Falmouth have to put on their thinking caps. Where today are all the people in town who told you the wind turbines were a great deal a "slam dunk." They are long gone and know the position the wind turbines have placed the taxpayers.

One simple fact is the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has admitted in April of 2013 the acoustic noise tests financed by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today known as the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center were wrong.

Everyone involved in the installation of both Falmouth Wind 1 and 2 were aware the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise twice that of General Electric turbines used in the noise studies

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center committed the original sin they took the bite out of the apple. The turbines would never have been built if the noise tests were correct

Falmouth taxpayers are pouring cash into litigation they can not win.

Tell the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to take down the turbines, pay the loans and bonds and give back the residents their health and property rights

The town is filing the lawsuits against the wrong people