FALMOUTH ZBA TONIGHT REASONS TO DENY SPECIAL PERMIT

New England Has Major Problems With Wind Turbines Noise & Health

EBC, [Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.] The Biggest Issue Facing Wind Turbines in New England :

NOISE & HEALTH

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ebcne-web-content/fileadmin/pres/11-22-10_Browne_2.pdf

January 28, 2016 – 5:30 PM Board of Appeals Hearings & Open Meeting Selectmen’s Meeting Room – Town Hall
5:30 PM: Continuation: 62-15 Town of Falmouth, 154 Blacksmith Shop (KB, KF, TH, EVK, PM)
http://www.falmouthmass.us/agenda.php?depkey=zone&number=7775

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse issued a preliminary injunction. The Falmouth turbines do pose a hazard ,nuisance and annoyance.

In the Massachusetts Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel January 2012 : Wendy J Heiger-Bernays , PhD of Boston University School of Public Health explained that “it is possible that living too close to wind turbines can cause annoyance and sleep disruption.,

Wendy J Heiger-Bernays agreed that sleep disruption can bring on a whole host of adverse health impacts.

Falmouth Board of Health has thousands of written certified noise complaints, studies, documents, emails, letters related to turbine noise and health issues. The Falmouth Board of Health must make all these documents public for Town Meeting Members.

The Falmouth Board of Health has only made one Canadian document available to the Zoning Board of Appeals following the example of hiding information from the public like the hidden 2010 Vestas noise warning letter for 5 years.

When Falmouth Wind 1, the first town owned wind turbine began to spin residents around the turbines immediatly began to complain about noise. During the first year the Falmouth Board of Health issued a special wind turbine noise complaint form. Today the Falmouth Board of Heath is in posession of thousands of certified hand or electronically written noise complaints.

When Falmouth Wind 1, the first town owned wind turbine began to spin residents around the turbines immediatly began to complain about noise. During the first year the Falmouth Board of Health issued a special wind turbine noise complaint form. Today the Falmouth Board of Heath is in posession of thousands of certified hand or electronically written noise complaints.

The certified noise complaints are the number one proof that the turbines were built far too close to residential homes. The written certified noise complaints are documents that show the main complaint of a lack of sleep.

Sleep deprivation causes impaired memory and cognitive functioning, decreased short term memory, speech impairment, hallucinations, psychosis, lowered immunity, headaches, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, stress, anxiety and depression.

Sleep deprivation is the major complaint from the wind turbine victims in Falmouth and other communities with megawatt turbines placed in residential communities.

In the Eastern part of Massachusetts the heavily populated areas each wind turbine generally affect up to 200 residential home owners less in the Western sections.

The people who live around the wind turbines are not Hollywood actors following a script for the last 6 years working together because they don’t like the turbines. They all experience the same health problems in common. When they leave their homes for a period of time they feel better and sleep better. When they return to their homes their symptoms return.

The Falmouth Board of Health certified noise complaints document the health issues.

How could the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center formerly known as the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative a semi-quasi state agency make such a catastrophic health and financial mistake ?

Guilty # 1-- The MassCEC used a state model wind turbine bylaw used to place much smaller kilowatt wind turbines. The Falmouth Wind 1 turbine is a megawatt turbine three times the size of the turbine in the model bylaw. The setbacks in the smaller turbines is three times the height of the turbines to residential property. The setbacks to the megawatt turbines should have been three times as far.
The Cape Cod Commission today recommends in their model bylaw today that megawatt turbines are placed ten times the height to residential property.

Today local and state officials are well aware of the mistakes but don’t want to rock the boat over such a massive mistake. Over the last six years officials are admitting omissions, hidden documents and the extrapolating of known figures in noise tests.

Guilty # 2 --Stumbling block number one is the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center giving the Town of Falmouth 1.8 million dollars in taxpayer funds to hire Boston lawyers to fight the wind turbine victims knowing the turbines are poorly placed and don’t belong this close to residential homes. The attorneys are working to protect the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center from any further embarrassment not you the residential taxpayers.

The MassCEC a state agency is trying to outspend the wind turbine victims in court in an effort to make them give up their homes

Guilty # 3-- The Town of Falmouth is in possesion thousands of certified noise complaints. This is important court evidence.

Guilty # 4--The MassCEC dropped the reference to two distinct types of noise in the preliminary Falmouth wind study because of residential concerns trying to build wind turbines in Mattapoisett. Prior to the Falmouth wind studies there was a warning to two distinct types of noise “ regulatory” and “human annoyance” today known as infra sound. The agency has been aware of infra sound since 1987.

Guilty # 5---On May 15, 2012 the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection notified the Town of Falmouth that Falmouth Wind 1 is breaking state noise laws 310 CMR 7.10.

Guilty #6--There is the August 3, 2010 letter from Vestas. Everyone involved in the installation had known about the excessive noise, 110 decibels, long before any wind turbines were installed. The letter shows the Falmouth Wind 1 turbine is twice as loud as the manufacturers specifications.

Guilty # 7--On April 2, 2013 the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center sent a memo admitting to the Town of Falmouth they were guilty of extrapolating acoustic noise tests prior to the installation of Falmouth Wind 1. It took the MassCEC three years to admit the mistakes

Guilty # 8---In May of 2013 Nils Bolgen the program director and facilitator of Falmouth Wind changed the setbacks of the commercial wind turbines to 2000 feet statewide . This was partially based on the catastrophic health and property taking issues in Falmouth and other communities.

Guilty # 9--The MassCEC had a wind study report for Falmouth that said the town needed a special permit to install wind turbines prior to the installations (KEMA)

Guilty # 10-- The State of Massachusetts had a renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of commercial wind power by the year 2020. The goal was to fight a war on fossil fuels just like a real war. The war on fossil fuels has resulted in the collateral damage of residential home owners. Massachusetts after ten years of fighting the war on fossil fuels only has around 100 megawatts of commercial wind. Solar and other renewable energy sources are making up the difference.

The bottom line is its time for everyone to sit down at the table including the main stream media and admit the commercial wind turbine fiasco.

Next documents that show the illegal installation of Falmouth wind turbines:

Falmouth ZBA Sept 17 with Chris Senie -This link :
Zoning Board of Appeals September 17, 2015 Senie & Associates, P.C. Representing Impacted Neighbors
https://windwisema.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/senie-to-zba-ceasedesist-2015-09-17.pdf

Zoning Board Of Appeals September 17, 2015 Part 1
http://www.fctv.org/v3/vod/zoning-board-appeals-september-17-2015-part-1

Zoning Board Of Appeals September 17, 2015 Part 2
http://www.fctv.org/v3/vod/zoning-board-appeals-september-17-2015-part-2