Maine Shuts Massachusetts Wind Projects Over Noise- Tourism

Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States taking health and property rights. The Massachusetts Superior Courts have agreed with the local Falmouth Zoning Board determining the turbines are a nuisance and shut down the turbines.

Massachusetts has twenty-one other communities with poorly placed wind turbines in which many fault the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for placing wind turbines ad hoc in residential neighborhoods.

The Falmouth, Massachusetts wind turbines have become a national symbol against placing wind turbines too close to residential homes.The neighbors describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Guru, Nils Bolgen the program director and facilitator of the Falmouth, Massachusetts Wind I & II turbines in May of 2013 changed the setbacks of the commercial wind turbines to 2000 feet to property lines statewide as a result of the Falmouth fiasco.

In Maine, a coalition of citizens, Citizens Task Force on Wind Power, is advocating responsible science-based, economically and environmentally sound approaches to Maine's energy policy before the wind turbine projects proceed. The citizens of Maine have seen first hand the health and financial fiasco in Massachusetts which include years of litigation.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center unable to site land-based wind turbines in Massachusetts issued a request for proposals for wind turbine clean energy in the state of Maine earlier this year so it can meet its aggressive renewable energy goals of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.

New York Con Ed has proposed a partnership with a group of wind turbine energy developers called Maine Power Express LLC to deliver northern Maine wind power to Massachusetts markets.

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filed: January 24, 2018 • Maine
LePage imposes moratorium on new wind energy permits

Credit: By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer | January 24, 2018 | www.pressherald.com ~~

"AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage imposed a moratorium on new wind energy permits in much of Maine on Wednesday while establishing a commission that will meet behind closed doors to study the economic impacts of wind turbines on the state’s tourism industry."

“Tourism is a major industry in the state of Maine,” McGrath said. “It attracts multipliers of the state’s population . . . and they spend a lot of money. And if we are going to have wind turbines all over the state, we ought to know the impact cradle-to-grave of those turbines.”

"There is no dispute that commercial wind power projects can be controversial in Maine, especially among nearby landowners concerned about 400-foot-tall turbines marring their views or about the effects of vibrations and light flicker caused by spinning blades. "

"LePage’s order comes a day before a selection committee in Massachusetts is scheduled to announce the initial round of winners to supply huge amounts of renewable energy to the Bay State."

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