Falmouth Wind Turbines Tortured Neighbors For Cash

Massachusetts Allows 2.5 Million To Dismantle $300,000 Wind Turbine

Falmouth Massachusetts Town Meeting Tortured Residents For Money

Falmouth, Massachusetts is a vacation community located on Cape Cod, with a yearly population of around 32,000 and a summer population of more than 100,000.

The town installed two Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines in 2010 and 2012. The town ignored written warnings from the manufacturer the turbines were too loud and installed the turbines with no permits.

The Town is home to several world-class scientific research organizations that depend on state and federal grants. These state and federal monies go to residents and businesses. In other words, when the state and or federal government say jump the local politicians say how high.

Falmouth Town Meeting Members know the answers to why the courts shut down both town-owned wind turbines in June of 2017 forever.

Massachusetts gave the Town of Falmouth 1 million dollars upfront to take a Vestas wind turbine they couldn't sell at an auction in 2008. Then the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered a project regulatory agreement between the federal government and the Town of Falmouth to buy a second Vestas wind turbine with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection wind turbine PRA required Falmouth Wind II the second wind turbine to remain energy efficient or the town has to pay back the 5 million in ARRA funds plus 2 percent interest.

The MassDEP project regulatory agreement pitted the wind turbine victims' health and property rights against the town taxpayers paying back the 5 million dollar loan.

In 2013 Falmouth taxpayers voted not to take down the turbines and continued taking the health and property rights of its fellow citizens. In other words, they tortured their own neighbors with wind turbine noise and shadow flicker for money.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ignored its own state noise regulations in Falmouth and twenty-one other communities to further the state wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of wind power by the year 2020.

It is well documented the Massachusetts Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection has never interviewed a single wind turbine victim in Massachusetts as they were well aware of wind turbine noise studies done by the US Department of Energy in the 1980s.

The Massachusetts land-based wind turbine agenda ended in massive health and the financial fiasco with around 130 megawatts of wind power built by the year 2020 rather than the goal of 2000 megawatts of power.

Falmouth and twenty-one other Massachusetts communities wind turbines are a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The people who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced over and over again by such mendacity, even from their government officials.

ARRA Fund Logo -Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant -Wind turbine location of noise torture -neighbors protest.

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Wind Turbine Options Analysis Process Final Report to the Falmouth Board of Selectmen

Falmouth, MA FINAL REPORT

January 18, 2013

4.7 Turbine Relocation Data Page 16

The WTOP considered relocating the turbines and reviewed relevant information regarding this option. Some of the questions the group asked in regards to relocating the turbines were:
• Where would the turbine(s) go?
• Where do the wind maps indicate sufficient wind for effective operation within Falmouth?
• What are the potential economic impacts of moving the turbines?
• How will the generated energy be transmitted? Where will the energy be used?
• How long would it take to complete the relocation process?
• What are the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) considerations for potential relocation sites?
• What are the Town’s contractual obligations related to the turbines?
• How would moving the turbines affect their warranties?

Weston and Sampson assessed the potential costs the Town would incur from relocating the turbines to another Town-owned property, which they estimated as approximately 4.4 million dollars.

Additional analyses requested by the WTOP have generally agreed with this as a ballpark amount, with additional, unknown costs for interconnection.

4.8 Turbine Resale Data Page 17

The WTOP considered whether selling the turbines would be a feasible option to include in a package. The turbine resale value provided the group with an understanding of how much money could be earned and applied toward options that would require dismantling the turbines. MassCEC gathered turbine resale data from the internet and personal communications with a broker of used wind turbines.

The Weston and Sampson report had estimated the resale value of the turbines without a manufacturer’s warranty at $300,000 to $600,000, which did not include the dismantling and transportation costs.

Alternatively, if the turbine’s copper, steel and spare parts were harvested for resale, they estimated approximately $182,000 could be raised. However, if the cost of dismantling, preparing and shipping the materials to the purchaser’s location were considered, then selling the turbine’s precious metals and spare parts would generate very little to no revenue.

http://www.falmouthmass.us/DocumentCenter/View/124/Final-Report-PDF?bidId=

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