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Falmouth Wind Turbine Questions Candidate Night May 4th
Five new candidates for Falmouth Select Board: Megan English Braga, William Dynan, Marc Finneran, Ralph Herbst and Sheila Travers
League of Women Voters of Falmouth, Massachusetts is hosting a Select Board candidate night on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. at the Morse Pond School, 323 Jones Road.
The public can meet the candidates in the school cafeteria at 7 p.m. A forum, moderated by Sean Corcoran of WCAI a public radio station, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
Watch live from Morse Pond Auditorium Falmouth CTV 5/4/2016 at 7:30 PM
http://www.fctv.org/v3/13live
On April 28, 2016 the Falmouth Select Board filed a legal complaint against the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals for not giving the Town of Falmouth a Special Permit to operate Falmouth Wind Turbine # 1
The Select board in the past has filed litigation against the ZBA in Superior Court and lost. The Town of Falmouth is paying up to $300,000.00 every six months for litigation fees.
The town was warned of dire health consequences due to noise concrerns prior to installations but made a choice to hide letters, memos and documents and put the public health at risk of up to 200 residential homes for financial gains. The town ignored public health and safety.
The town this time filed with the Massachusetts Land Court where they assign a single judge for the duration of the trial and no jury.
The duration of the trial on the fast track could be 16 to 34 months at taxpayers expense.
Land court has assigned a judge that was appointed by former Democratic Governor Deval Patrick a wind turbine advocate.
The state agenda had called for 2000 megawatts of wind turbine power by the year 2020 has failed.
Today only around 110 megawatts of wind turbines have been built in the state because of a health and financial fiasco.
The state has switched quietly to other means to reach the 2000 megawatt renewable energy goal such as solar.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party platform under climate change calls for an all out war on fossil fuels and to fight that war as a real war.
Falmouth residents are the collateral damage in the war on fossil fuels using commercial megawatt wind turbines. The state has admitted through a its own policy to use other means rather than commercial megawatt wind turbines to reach the renewable energy goal.
The placement of commercial megawatt wind turbines is indeed an embarrassing mistake for career politicians on Beacon Hill along with local Falmouth officials.
Up to 200 residential homes around the wind turbines have been affected by a noise described as torture from lack of sleep from the turbines. They and twenty one other communities are part of a massive health and financial fiasco placing commercial wind turbines too close to residential homes.
Before every Falmouth Select Board meeting the board recites these words which affirm the values and freedom that the American flag represents:
The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag:
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The flag is a symbol of our country, the United States of America, which is a place where we can make choices.
Our country makes sure people are free and people are treated fairly.
As a candidate for the Select Board how would you resolve the megawatt wind turbine issue after six years of a health and financial fiasco ?
How much more should be spent on wind turbine litigation ?
Do you believe in liberty and justice for all ?
