FALMOUTH WIND TURBINE NEGOTIATIONS CATASTROPHIC FAILURES

The Falmouth commercial megawatt wind turbines are supposed to produce electricity. But they have also produced now a record ten lawsuits over noise and the associated negative health impacts they have on residents.

The Falmouth 1.65 megawatt Vestas V-82 wind turbines are out of compliance with state and local rules over the past six years. In conjunction with this; the town may be liable for paying the legal expenses of the plaintiffs who have prevailed with their lawsuits.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse had to hold a hearing on November 21, 2013. Falmouth Select Board Member Rebecca Moffitt and Falmouth Town Counsel Frank Duffy agreed with the judge two weeks prior to shut the turbines down 12 hours a day.

The Falmouth Select Board recanted the verbal agreement because nothing was in writing.

It was later publicly disclosed by the Town of Falmouth that Select Board Member Rebecca R. Moffitt put together a financial offer in November of 2013 to one of the wind turbine victims.

The question remains today how Town Meeting Members approved an offer of this magnitude and was the offer in black and white. Can you trust anything they say ?

There are ten lawsuits filed and families are going to be paid big time damages. The additional costs are going to be passed on to the taxpayers. Town Meeting Members have been aware residents filed suit over negative health impacts, including dizziness, sleeplessness, headaches and other physical symptoms being caused by turbines.

The Town of Falmouth has failed to negotiate in good faith as witnessed with the Judge Christopher J. Muse verbal agreement during November 2013. Why would they negotiate in good faith now ?

The Falmouth industrial wind turbines have been declared out-of-compliance according to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection noise ordinance. Believe it or not after the verbal agreement in 2013 with Judge Christopher J. Muse to shut the turbines down 12 hours a day members of the Falmouth Select Board advocated operating the turbines 24 hours a day. So much for that offer.

The Falmouth Select Board after 6 years fails to protect health and safety and puts financial interests first by filing yet another lawsuit against its own appointed Zoning Board of Appeals.

Virtually every major megawatt wind development in Massachusetts has caused distress to neighbors. The neighbors describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep. Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States.

Up to 200 Falmouth residential home owners built homes on property and complied with all of the ordinances and standards. They are the original stakeholders and have a bundle of rights.

The town came in afterward, change the rules, illegally built two megawatt wind turbines and then now claims up to 200 residential home owners should simply leave their homes ? No one in Falmouth voted for this system.

Falmouth Town Meeting Members and taxpayers of Falmouth need to understand the Town of Falmouth has acted in bad faith negotiating the shut down of the wind turbine with the Barnstable Superior Court how now could any individual home owner negotiate with the town at this point.

The Town of Falmouth Select Board has entered the tenth ( 10 ) lawsuit against its own Zoning Board of Appeals. The Select Board has already assigned a Boston law firm in which the first part starts June 8, 2016. The Zoning Board of Appeals will also have an outside law firm assigned to it. The case could take 16 to 34 months according to Massachusetts Land Court records.

The attorneys are all out buying a brand new Mercedes-Benz while the taxpayers worry if their car will pass an inspection sticker.

My opinion is shut the turbines off. Stop paying for them.Call the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center tell them to take down the turbines and pay off all the debt including the lawsuits and make the town whole again.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in the April 2, 2013 memo to the Town of Falmouth admitted the acoustic noise mistakes in the original noise studies. The figures were extrapolated.

The questions are complicated but the answers are simple