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Falmouth Wind Turbines Taking Taxpayers To Cleaners Again
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered loan on second wind turbine knowing it generated 110 decibels of noise.
Town of Falmouth Massachusetts Is Looking To Place A Wind Turbine Near You
NIMBY -"Next It May Be You"
The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts installed two 110 decibel Vestas V-82 commercial wind turbines they knew would break state noise regulations between 2010 and 2012.
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Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered loan on second wind turbine knowing it generated 110 decibels of noise. MassDEP is stuck in Regulatory Capture holding noise hearings for ten years never taking action against any wind turbine in as many as twenty-one communities.
Depreciation: Vestas V-82 town turbines formerly known as NEG Micon NM-82 no longer produced due to gearbox failures.
Find out what's happening in Falmouthfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Maintenance: Yearly fees still being paid out for wind turbines as if they are operating.
Power: Electric power is used to operate air conditioning, heat, battery back up, computers and everything else in any kind of a power plant.
Loan Payments; Loan payments still being made on turbines. (MassDEP brokered Project Regulatory Agreement)
Liability: Massachusetts courts shut down both town-owned wind turbines, June 2017, as they are a nuisance. Town maintaining a nuisance.
Building Commissioner Rodman L. Palmer, December 2017, determined that the town’s wind turbine, Wind 1, is a non-complying structure and needs to come down.
On March 7, 2018, Susan Perez Executive Director of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust at the meeting of trustees reported the town of Falmouth has notified her they will be sending a letter asking for guidance as to whether various proposals regarding the Wind II turbine loan agreement
Falmouth may have to pay back nearly $5 million in federal stimulus funds it borrowed from the State Reserve Fund. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds were deposited in the SRF, State Reserve Fund.
In January 2018, selectmen unanimously voted to ask town administration and town attorney to create requests for proposals (RFP) to either leasing property outside of Falmouth to run the wind turbines, sell the turbines, or repurpose a wind turbine tower.
Believe it or not, the town is still paying the original engineering firm hired to do noise studies and now help move the wind turbines.
The Town of Falmouth is looking to move these turbines out of town - While taxpayers being taken to the cleaners.
