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Falmouth Wind Turbine II Loan or Grant - Mass Clean Energy Center Today
Mass Clean Energy Technology Center Board of Directors meeting at 10:00 am on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. The loan/grant question today?
June 29, 2009, Falmouth Town Meeting Members approved an article at Special Town Meeting to allow Town of Falmouth Select Board to borrow money or accept grants or any other means to build Falmouth Wind Turbine II.
The minutes of that Special Town Meeting show Town Meeting Members were told: " This is the federal stimulus money that you’ve heard so much. "
Today in 2017 looking back in retrospect it looks as if the Town Meeting Members thought through the verbal and visual explanations that were getting an ARRA stimulus grant to build Falmouth Wind Turbine II. The actual Special Town Meeting article as printed did allow the town to borrow the $ 4, 865, 000.00.
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February 1, 2010, Town of Falmouth accepted a Massachusetts Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan of $ 4,865,000.00 at zero percent with a debt forgiveness of $ 4, 865, 000.00. The State Revolving Fund is a low-interest loan program that helps make major investments in water infrastructure facilities affordable for municipalities, public water suppliers, and regional water and wastewater districts.
The Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan number is 3297 and designated as loans DWSG -09-31 and CWSG-09-36
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On February 23, 2010 the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust sent the Town of Falmouth the loan agreement
ARRA Grant for Wind II - Consensus Building Institute
www.cbuilding.org/sites/.../ARRA%20Grant%20for%20Wind%20II_compressed.pdf
Feb 23, 2010 - funds facilitated by the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust ... updated draft Schedule C for loans DWSG-09-31 and CWSG-09—36.
Massachusetts Water Abatement Trust :
During 2012 the purpose of the Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process (WTOP) 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 to resolve noise and shadow flicker health problems with the turbines.
All the meetings were shown of the twenty plus CBI -WTOP meetings on local Falmouth Community Television except for one 'lost ' video.
The lost September 12, 2012, video at the end had questions over whether the $ $ 4,865,000.00 for Falmouth Wind II was a loan or a grant
"A participant asked Julian Suso, Town Manager, about the status of the Wind 2 grant. Julian stated that the Town doesn’t have a clear answer. He explained that there are a series of possibilities, none of which is definitive."
To be fair the current Town Manager, Julian Suso, had not yet taken his position in Falmouth during 2010.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 the Town of Falmouth received its federal EPA waiver to buy a foreign made wind turbine called Falmouth Wind II. The use of federal stimulus funds whether it be a grant or loan required the town to purchase a domestic wind turbine.
The federal EPA waiver made reference to Falmouth Special Permit 240-166.
General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused to build even a single wind turbine due to residential setbacks and ice throw.
To matters worse the town was in posseision of maps that showed the decibel levels on Black Smith Shop Road exceeded 50 decibels.
The town had been warned by email that the Vestas turbines generate a chest pounding 110 decibels of noise. Vestas also warned the town in a letter that the turbines are twice as loud as the domestic General Electric wind turbines. The warning letter was released after 2013 through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The town never filed Special Permit 240-166 that would have required a review of the Falmouth Zoning Board, additional studies and additional notifications to neighbors.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty June 20, 2017 ordered the town of Falmouth to shut down two town-owned wind turbines.
On July 10, 2017, the Falmouth Select Board voted against appealing the court ruling shutting down the tortuous machines.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center Board of Directors will hold a meeting at 10:00am on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 63 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02110.
Was the money to buy Falmouth Wind II a loan or a grant ?
Industrial Wind Turbines: An Upper Cape Dilemma July 2017 #3
David Moriarty, resident of Town of Falmouth, talks to audience about the current status of the town owned wind turbines in Falmouth, MA after court injunction, and urges people in town to get involved with local decision makers and elected officials to stop appeal process which will be expensive and probably not succeed.
Moriarty says we are all responsible for when we let elected officials do as they please with public money, who then may lie to get away with it after the fact, and we have to hold them accountable.
