Falmouth Wind Turbine Negotiations A Foul Stench

All Falmouth citizens are endowed unalienable rights. The local town or state government did not give them and therefore cannot take them away, but the state and town politicians still strains at ways to suppress them through the illegal placement of commercial megawatt wind turbines.

The “unalienable rights” are explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. Home owners have the right to own one’s own property, the right to be secure in one’s own property, the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers and protection from cruel and unusual punishment including a noise described as torture from wind turbines.

The Massachusetts Attorney General under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 12 Section 11 D has a division of environmental protection within the office of the attorney general that deals with noise in the environment. The attorney general has over the years ignored the crisis with the placement of commercial megawatt wind turbines in residential communities.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is aware of commercial megawatt wind turbines breaking state noise laws and has done nothing. Mass DEP has held meeting for 6 , six years, and done nothing to update antiquated noise laws.

The Town of Falmouth over the years hid noise warning letters, documents, studies and memos from the public.

A Town of Falmouth Select Board member and town attorney struck a deal in court on operating hours of the turbines and offered a wind turbine victim an offer on their home and then reneged one week later.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center wind director , Nils Bolgen, has changed setbacks to commercial megawatt wind turbines to 2000 feet to property lines for a single 1.65 megawatt turbine simalar to the Falmouth wind turbines.

The Massachusetts commercial wind business is in the tank.

The MassCEC has also admitted the original noise tests for the original wind turbines were wrong and extrapolated. The actual wind model maps show the turbines would generate over 40 decibels at up to 200 residential locations as the town installed two Vestas V-82 commercial megawatt wind turbines generating over 110 decibels each.

The Conservation Law Foundation has won a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts. Massachusetts has violated the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008. The act requires Massachusetts reach 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. The state can no longer count on megawatt wind turbines as direct result of the ongoing health and finacial fiasco in Falmouth and twenty one other communities.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center over a period of years conducted flawed studies and placed commercial megawatt wind turbines far too close to residential homes. The result has been an economic boom for law firms all over Massachusetts. The taxpayers of Massachusetts are paying for multi-million dollar wind turbines and now multi-millions going to Boston law firms defending the poor placement of the turbines. Falmouth faces ten ongoing lawsuits and probably more in the near future at taxpayer expense.

The commercial megawatt wind turbine business in Massachusetts has gone to an almost dead stop over the poor placement of turbines. Only around 110 out of 2000 megawatt wind turbines have been installed with less than 4 years to reach the renewable energy goal.

Because of massive litigation cases starting with Falmouth which is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States the state switched in midstream to Solar as a means to reach the goal. The switch happened too late and the state will not reach the renewable energy goal of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008.

Embarrassed state officials find themselves in a bind spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a failed commercial megawatt agenda taking the health and property rights of citizens in 21 communities.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled this last Tuesday that the Department of Environmental Protection has to reach the renewable energy goals. They are going to have to go into negotiations with wind turbine victims statewide.

State officials are going to need every megawatt of renewable energy as soon as possible.

Falmouth Wind 1 turbine has been shut down and will never spin again. Falmouth has ten ongoing litigation cases over both turbines which include Falmouth Wind 2. The turbines were illegally installed. Falmouth Wind 2 faces the same fate as Falmouth Wind 1.

State officials are going to want Falmouth officials to negotiate with the wind turbine victims around Falmouth Wind 2 to be able to at least keep Falmouth Wind 2 in operation.

“NO” is a very powerful word in any negotiation. The Town of Falmouth for six years has refused to shut down the wind turbines.

The wind turbine victims response to negotiations should be "No," The town has never negotiated in good faith and has hidden documents, memos, letters and studies.

The wind victims have won every case in court over the past six years. The town is spending up to $300,000.00 on litigation every six months.

The simple answer shut down the out of compliance illegally placed commercial megawatt wind turbines