Falmouth Wind Turbines Oral Argument Appeal Set October 2018

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth's Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 20, 2017.

The judge denied the appeal brought by Falmouth selectmen against the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals had found the turbines to be a "nuisance."

The Falmouth Select Board the legal owners of the town-owned wind turbines voted not to appeal the legal decision. Select Board Chair Susan Moran said: “It's time to put the matter behind us and move forward.”

Since June of 2017, the Town of Falmouth has renegotiated loans & grants on both wind turbines such as the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust (the Trust) Project Regulatory Agreement on Falmouth Wind II.
In addition to the state awarding savings of millions in loan payments, the town has settled multiple lawsuits with the residents living around the wind turbines.

A group of Falmouth residents known as the "Friends of Falmouth Wind" filed an appeal to the June 2017 court decision (5) five months after the decision well after the allotted appeal time. Massachusetts Superior Court ruled the appeal was filed far too late and the "Friends of Falmouth Wind" have no standing. The "Friends of Falmouth Wind" have appealed that decision.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court Clerk’s Office on August 9, 2018, sent a "Notice Seeking Information on Unavailability" which is roughly six weeks before the scheduled oral argument date in October 2018. The case number is 2018-P-0104. The "Friends of Falmouth Wind" will get chance to make an oral argument to intervene in the June 2017 decision that started in the year 2013.

The argument will undoubtedly bring up the 110-decibel warning letter the town had received prior to the installations of the wind turbines from Vestas wind turbine company. The town installed two Vestas V-82 commercial 1.65-megawatt wind turbines each generating 110 decibels each. The letter has never been made public. The letter along with a KEMA Inc map from 2005 shows the decibel levels at up to 200 residential homes would increase to near 60 decibels.

The Town of Falmouth by omission neglected to make available negative documents such as letters, maps, memos and emails showing the turbines should never have been installed in the first place. The Town of Falmouth in May of 2013 voted not to take down their two town-owned wind turbines. Falmouth voters were never made aware the town withheld documents the turbines were far too loud.

In addition boiler plate wind turbine noise studies around Massachusetts prior to the Falmouth wind turbine installations warned of two distinct types of noise. One measured in decibels the other called human annoyance or today called infrasound. The warnings were not in the Falmouth wind studies. In 2011 the Chief Executive Officer of Vestas wind company CEO Engel Ditlev wrote a letter to Karen Ellemann about low-frequency noise. The CEO responded that Vestas does not have the technology to stop the noise.

As the years pass more and more studies show low-frequency noise generated by turbines is detrimental to human health.

Commercial wind turbines are a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The voters who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government officials.

Time to Stop the Insanity.

Falmouth Officials & Town Attorney Wind Turbine Update February 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meCC5XU-uzw