Gov Charlie Baker Falmouth Wind II Another Environmental Scandal

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth's two chests pounding 110 decibel Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 21, 2017.

The Town of Falmouth plans to move Falmouth Wind 2 which began spinning in 2012 to a new location a few hundred feet away from its current location.

The town used the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds to build the turbine despite written warnings prior to construction in 2010 the turbine generates 110 decibels of noise. The town continues to hide the letter.

The Town of Falmouth spent $14,000.00 on a study to move Falmouth Wind 2. The town since the study in October of 2018 has been warned in writing by an acoustic expert the 110-decibel wind turbine needs a 2923 foot setback for state noise regulations for the safety and health of neighbors.

The Town of Falmouth is corresponding back and forth to Susan Perez the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust to reuse ARRA funds from the SRF, state revolving funds, to help in the rebuilding of Falmouth Wind 2.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered a Project Regulatory Agreement between the Town of Falmouth and the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust for a loan/grant on Falmouth Wind 2.The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered a Project Regulatory Agreement which meant they could not enforce the state noise regulations.

The MassDEP is participating in Regulatory Capture.

Regulatory Capture is a form of government failure which occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.

The MassDEP is pushing a commercial wind turbine agenda while ignoring the health and property of the people who pay taxes.The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection or the Massachusetts Department of Health have never interviewed a single wind turbine victim from anyone of twenty-one Massachusetts communities with wind turbines taking health and property rights. The only logical conclusion is the state knew prior to construction of the noise and shadow flicker.

A Massachusetts state agency was the first to buy a megawatt wind turbine today that agency is the Massachusetts Energy Center.

Since 2016 there has been a history of scandals at Massachusetts environmental agencies. The ouster of the top Environmental Police official and all the way up to the cabinet-level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. There have been many officials dismissed.

Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is hoping to cast the state as a national leader in the race to develop offshore wind. Baker is also looking at Falmouth, Massachusetts ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States taking health and property rights.

The issue is the Town of Falmouth misled the federal EPA to obtain a waiver to build a foreign made Vesta V-82 commercial 1.65-megawatt wind turbine after - General Electric a domestic wind company refused to build a wind turbine because of residential setbacks and ice throw.

ARRA funds cannot be used if a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety exists - Falmouth wind turbines are 110 decibels each needing a 2923 foot setback from neighbors.

EPA Waiver To Buy A Foreign Wind Turbine: Publication Date: 04/27/2010Agency: Environmental Protection AgencyDocument Citation: 75 FR 22129Page: 22129-22131 (3 pages)Agency/Docket Number: FRL-9142-5Document Number: 2010-9751

A . General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused to build a single wind turbine at the Falmouth wastewater treatment facility because of residential home setbacks and ice throw.

"The EPA is hereby granting a waiver of the Buy America requirements of ARRA Section 1605 under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality] to the Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts for the purchase of a foreign manufactured wind turbine to be installed at its existing wastewater treatment facility site."

B. The Town of Falmouth never filed Special Permit 240 -166

"The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts (MA) is proposing to construct a foreign manufactured Vestas model V82, 1.65 megawatt (MW) wind turbine generator at the Town's wastewater treatment facility located at 154 Blacksmith Shop Road, a 314 acre town owned site in Falmouth, MA. This proposed wind turbine would be the second one installed and commissioned at the site although the existing wind turbine was not funded through the ARRA."

"Based on information provided to the EPA, the Town of Falmouth has taken the necessary steps to obtain all required local, state, and federal approvals to move forward with the proposed project. The Town of Falmouth has adopted a local ordinance regulating large scale wind turbines. According to the submittal, Zoning Article XXXIV, Chapter 240, Section 240-166 requires a Special Permit for windmills with minimum setback from property lines."

C. General Electric refused to build a single wind turbine. The town misled the EPA technical review team

"Based on the evaluation of all of the submitted documentation by EPA's technical review team, the Town of Falmouth's statement that no U.S. manufacturer is willing to provide a 1.5 MW-2.0 MW wind turbine generator that meets project performance specifications is supported by the available evidence."

"Town of Falmouth has agreed to implement a mitigation plan to minimize the likelihood of any potential ice throws to ensure public safety, and that this manufactured good was not available from a producer in the United States. The information provided is sufficient to meet the following criteria listed under Section 1605(b) of the ARRA and in the April 28, 2009 Memorandum: Iron, steel, and the manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality."

"Having established both a proper basis to specify the particular good required for this project and that this manufactured good is not available from a producer in the United States, the Town of Falmouth is hereby granted a waiver from the Buy American requirements of Section 1605(a) of Public Law 111-5. "

Gov. Charlie Baker on Scandal at Environmental Agency Starting 2016

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