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Falmouth Wind Turbines Officials Getting Out Of Dodge ?
Falmouth Megawatt Wind Turbines A Public Health Problem. Five Falmouth officials depart in 2016 as wind turbine litigation nears.
"Get the heck out of Dodge", an exhortation that on the drama series Gunsmoke was sometimes given to villains whom the heroes wanted out of Dodge City, Kansas.
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge, hearing neighbors complaints that wind turbine noise constituted an intolerable “nuisance” that was causing “irreparable harm,” issued an injunction to curtail operations.
The neighbors describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep.
Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States with over ten ongoing lawsuits.
The town spends up to $300,000.00 every six months on litigation cases.
Falmouth could see their contributions to law firms over the wind turbines double at the next annual town meeting or even sooner at a special town meeting.
On June 8, 2016 the land court case starts with the Falmouth Select Board represented by the Boston law firm Hemenway & Barnes attorney Diane C. Tillotson and the Falmouth Zoning Board will be represented by attorney Mark Bobrowski. Big bucks !
The land court case could take 16 to 20 months and could end up in Massachusetts Superior Court again.
The Falmouth Select Board has filed litigation against its own appointed Zoning Board in land court. A similar case was filed five years ago in Massachusetts Superior Court.
The town has lost every litigation case all at taxpayer expense.
It is a known fact the town hid warning letters, documents, memos and studies since prior to the installations of the wind turbines.
In 2016 the Town of Falmouth has seen the departure of several prominent officials. Falmouth Building Inspector Eladio Gore, Falmouth Wastewater Superintendent Jerry Potamus , Select Board member Mary Pat Flynn, Seleact Board memeber Rebecca Moffitt and Assistant Town Manager Heather B. Harper.
Coincidentally Massachusetts has passed a bill aimed at overhauling the state’s public records law, bringing the measure to Governor Charlie Baker’s desk today
The bill approved this week would require public records requests to be completed in 10 days
If a municipality can’t comply, the person in charge of producing the records must explain the reasons for the delay.
The latest debacle is the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center using 1.8 million in taxpayer dollars to help finance the Town of Falmouth to hire multiple law firms and attorneys to fight their own residents over the poor placement of commercial wind turbines with no permits.
Massachusetts Quasi-Public Agencies and the Need for Budget Transparency
Quasi-public agencies are independent governmental corporations that are created through enabling legislation to perform a particular service or set of public functions
The new Massachusetts Freedom of Information Act requirements will shed light on the use of renewable energy tax money to pay for Falmouth wind turbine litigation against the very people that paid the taxes to be used against them to generate a noise described as torture.
