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Falmouth Wind Turbines Unreliable, Expensive, Utterly Impractical
Unfortunately, Select Board -"Friends of Falmouth Wind " decided Falmouth taxpayers will have wind turbines, no matter how expensive.
Simple Definition of stupid : not intelligent : having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things
Years of “extended, unprecedented and relentless litigation” have run up attorney fees as high as $300,000.00 every 6 months.
The Falmouth Select Board has said they will pursue every option available to them on the taxpayers dime. The same people who promised an unending revenue stream from the turbines are running up a debt on the financial fiasco of a wind turbine project taking the health of up to 200 residential home owners
The Town of Falmouth is going to Massachusetts Land Court on June 8, 2016 at 11 AM. They are going to beg the land court to allow the wind turbines to be permitted due to financial concerns. It is not going to happen.
The problem in land court is Assistant Town Manager Heather Harper said : “We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we’re a large community and I think we can take on that risk. ” The town knew the risk and now you the taxpayers are going to pay for years of additional litigation. The town has already admitted it knew it was a gamble !
Now the health issues for land court :
Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals: To Protect The Public Health Safety Welfare. The Mass DPH and DEP Failed To Take Action
2012: Massachusetts: Falmouth Health Department (June 11, 2012)
“The Falmouth Board of Health requests that Mass DPH immediately initiate a health assessment of the impacts of the operation of wind turbines in Falmouth. This appeal is compelled by two years of consistent and persistent complaints of health impacts during turbine operation. … Due to the increasing intensity of the reported health impacts, the Board is considering emergency actions. To determine the appropriateness of such actions, the Board requests immediate guidance on interim measures to protect the health of affected individuals while the complete health assessment is being conducted.”
2012: Town of Falmouth vs. Town of Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals and Others
“By order of the court, preliminary injunction shall issue until further order of the courts. 1. The Town of Falmouth, its Selectmen, agents and persons acting in concert shall be restrained from operating the Wind Turbines located at the Waste Water Treatment Facility except during the hours of 7am to 7pm, every day of the week except Sunday.”
—Superior Court Civil Action No. BACV 2013-00281, November 21, 2013
The Falmouth Board of Health and Massachusetts Courts and the general public were denied for 5 ( five) years the noise warning letter from Vestas wind company. The Town of Falmouth hid the noise warning that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise.
The Vestas wind turbines are 7 decibels louder than the proposed General Electric turbines. General Electric refused to place wind turbines because of residential setbacks.
The letter was hidden because it would have required Special Permit 240-166 for wind turbines. The permit process would require additional studies and notifications to the neighbors. In that case the Falmouth megawatt wind turbines would not have been built because of health and safety concerns.
“The Town has previously been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances.”
August 3, 2010
Mr. Gerald Potamis
WasteWater Superintendent
Town of Falmouth Public Works
59 Town Hall Square
Falmouth, MA 02540
RE: Falmouth WWTF Wind Energy Facility II “Wind II”, Falmouth, MA
Contract No. #3297
Dear Mr. Potamis,
Click link below to read the entire letter :
http://www.windaction.org/posts/41357-vestas-raises-concerns-about-turbine-noise-letter#.Ve9oyhFVikp
Falmouth pays for electricity twice: once through your monthly electricity bill and a second time through taxes that finance massive subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers.
Unfortunately, the Select Board and "Friends of Falmouth Wind " has decided that the Falmouth taxpayers will have wind turbines, no matter how high the costs. As a result, taxpayers will be stuck paying the cost of subsidies to wealthy wind producers.
