Falmouth Wind Turbine Consultant 4.4 M Plus To Move Turbines

On January 8, 2018 the Falmouth Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to authorize Town Manager Julian M. Suso to hire a consultant to help determine how to move the 110 decibel Falmouth Wind II. Both wind turbines are a nuisance determined by the Falmouth Zoning Board and the Massachusetts Superior Court

The purpose of the 26 Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process (WTOP) meetings held during 2012 at a cost of $136,000.00 was to engage in an open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of the range of options for the long-term future of the town's two wind turbines – Wind I and Wind II.

The Town of Falmouth withheld documents from the meetings, in particular, the 2010 Vestas wind turbine warning letter each wind turbine generates 110 decibels of noise. The Vestas noise warning letter even today has never appeared on the town wind turbine website in which the town promised to post all wind turbine related documents.

Falmouth Select Board Member Doug Jones was the town liaison to the WTOP -CBI negotiations.

No one has ever asked Selectman Doug Jones why the town withheld the August 2010 noise warning letter that the town had previously warned the Vestas turbines generate 110 decibels of noise.

Why does the town continue to hide the Vestas 110 decibel noise warning letter.

Shenanigans continue as Weston and Sampson,a contractor was already paid in 2012 to give the Town of Falmouth a price on moving the old gear box driven wind turbines. The cost below 4.4 million plus electric connections in 2012. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in 2004 paid 5.2 million to buy two Vestas wind turbines.

The Falmouth Select Board continues to divide the town by reinventing the wheel doing the same things over and over again at whose direction ?

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The Falmouth Town Meeting Members are voting up to $300,000.00 every six months for town litigation fees.

Falmouth taxpayers are doing the same thing over and over. The turbines are a nuisance.

The Falmouth wind turbines are a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The taxpayers who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government officials.

Below is a quote and link to the 2012 WTOP-CBI meeting in which it was determined moving the wind turbines was cost prohibitive.

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Wind Turbine Options Analysis Process Final Report to the Falmouth Board of Selectmen Falmouth, MA

FINAL REPORT January 18, 2013

Page 16

4.7 Turbine Relocation Data

The WTOP considered relocating the turbines and reviewed relevant information regarding this option.

Some of the questions the group asked in regards to relocating the turbines were:

• Where would the turbine(s) go?
• Where do the wind maps indicate sufficient wind for effective operation within Falmouth?
• What are the potential economic impacts of moving the turbines?
• How will the generated energy be transmitted? Where will the energy be used?
• How long would it take to complete the relocation process?
• What are the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) considerations for potential relocation sites?
• What are the Town’s contractual obligations related to the turbines?
• How would moving the turbines affect their warranties?

Weston and Sampson assessed the potential costs the Town would incur from relocating the turbines to another Town-owned property, which they estimated as approximately 4.4 million dollars.

Additional analyses requested by the WTOP have generally agreed with this as a ballpark amount, with additional, unknown costs for interconnection.

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