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Falmouth Wind Turbine Permit : Lipstick On A Pig USA
Public safety and welfare are not sufficiently protected around the wind turbine. Priority number one public safety and everyone's health.
The public safety and welfare are not sufficiently protected around the wind turbines,
Priority number one public safety and health
A permit shall be granted if the granting authority finds in writing that there is substantial evidence to install a "megawatt wind turbine."
Is the specific site an appropriate location for such use NO. General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused to place a single smaller 1.5 megawatt wind turbine at the Falmouth Waste Water Treatment Plant. GE refused because of ice throw to Rte 28 and setbacks to residential property lines. GE sited its own internal saftey and health guidelines.
Will a nuisance be expected to be created by the use YES. The Massachusetts Superior Courts as well as the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals have ruled the turbines are a nuisance and are "annoying."
The construction and operation of wind turbines shall be consistent with all applicable local, state and federal requirements, including but not limited to all applicable safety and the environmental NO. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center admitted in a staff memo to the MassCEC Board of Directors in a memo April 2013 that the acoustic noise tests prior to the installation of Falmouth Wind 1 were flawed. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection notified the town in 2012 the turbines are breaking state noise regulations.
The wind turbine and associated equipment does not conform with the provisions of the Department of Environmental Protection‘s, Division of Air Quality Noise Regulations (310 CMR 7.10),
The wind turbines shall be sited in a manner that minimizes shadowing or flicker impacts NO. The applicant has not provided the burden of proof that this effect does not have significant adverse impact on neighboring or adjacent uses.
The building permit application shall be accompanied with wind turbine system specifications, including manufacturer and model, rotor diameter, tower height, tower type NO. Vestas wind turbine company had notified the Town of Falmouth in writing prior to August of 2010 that their turbine generates 110 decibels of noise. Vestas is the manufacturer of the Falmouth town owned wind turbines.
The sound studies used for modeling the Falmouth wind turbines used General Electric 1.5 megawatt turbines that generate 103 decibels of noise the town substituted the foreign made Vestas 1.65 megawatt turbines that generate 110 decibels of noise twice that of the GE turbines. The Town of Falmouth hid the noise warning letter from Vestas for five ( 5 ) years.
A wind turbine shall be erected, constructed, installed or modified first obtaining a permit from the special permit granting authority NO.
The Town of Falmouth avoided their own bylaw 240-166 by avoiding applying for a special permit. For the above reasons its clear the special permit application process would have required additional notifications to the neighbors and additional studies. The Falmouth Wind 1 turbine would never have been built.
It is noteworthy at this point to show the Town of Falmouth again avoided special permit 240-166 a second time in a Federal Environmental Protection Agency waiver to use ARRA , stimulus funds to purchase Falmouth Wind 2. The waiver requirements included a reference by the town to the EPA that they would be using permit 240-166 to permit Falmouth Wind 2. The town for a second time avoided the special permit process because they were aware Falmouth Wind 1 and 2 both Vestas 1.65 megawatt turbines were too loud.
The special permit application submitted to the Permit Granting Authority, Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals must, at a minimum, include all safety, health and environmental standards NO. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center aka the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative the former owner owner of Falmouth Wind 1 denied the Town of Falmouth additional noise warnings.
Prior to the installation of the Falmouth wind turbines MassCEC financed studies included warnings of two distinct types of noise. First is the "regulatory noise" measured in decibels and the second in "human annoyance" or today what is called "infra sound." The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and wind turbine manufactures dropped the warnings of two distinct types of noise in all the noise tests for the Falmouth wind turbines.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center bought the Falmouth Wind 1 turbine from Vestas in 2004 and was unable to sell the turbine until Falmouth bought the turbine and installed it in Falmouth in 2010. It is a well known fact that the noise called "human annoyance" or today called "infra sound" was presented to the American Wind Energy Association Windpower conference in 1987 by Dr Neil Kelley
We have witnessed the unfolding events in Falmouth over the past several years with a growing sense of shock and disbelief as the town government has hardened its position against those who have suffered most profoundly from the bumbling incompetence and gross negligence of the Energy Committee, Board of Selectman and Board of Health, all of whom have at one time or another abdicated their responsibility under the law and their duty to the citizens in Falmouth.
Wind turbines have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to residents.
There is no law to allow or impose such harm on residents.
State and local officials have prostituted the health and saftey of up to 200 Falmouth residential home owners for a false finacial gain following a failed political wind turbine agenda.
Safety and health first because NIMBY - next it may be you
