Massachusetts Taxes Used To Torture Wind Turbine Victims

Massachusetts Taxes Used To Torture Wind Turbine Victims

Folks, Residential home owners all over Massachusetts have filed different types of litigation against the installation and deployment of commercial wind turbines in residential neighborhoods. The litigation involves placing loud commercial wind turbines far too close to residential homes.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is offering to pay cities and towns in Massachusetts cash to reimburse towns with litigation brought on by residential home owners who have filed litigation against those towns because of the poor placement of commercial wind turbines. In some cases the turbines are shut down at night.
The cash offered by state officials to the cities and towns comes from renewable energy tax on your electric bills. No one is helping with the finances of the residential home owners undergoing torture and financial burdens to protect their health and property rights. You can say these people are being shot in the foot with their own tax money.

It’s clear now that the state is offering to pay these cities and towns for litigation and curtailment of the turbines so the state can continue to achieve the Agenda.

The agenda is 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020 at the expense and health of residential home owners around wind turbines all over Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center should be held responsible to pay all the litigation costs. Those costs include the litigation costs of the residential home owners who have had their property rights and health taken with NO compensation.

Offering to pay the litigation costs of one party and not the other shows the ongoing bias at the state level.
We are now between a rock and a hard place. The state has shown it will now try to outspend individual home owners who are paying to defend themselves in a court of law.

Home owners have had to hire their own advocates to protect their health and residential property rights. Home owners today only have their homes as their life savings. Buying and owning a home is the American Dream. Massachusetts home owners have had to spend their life savings to hire attorneys to protect their homes from commercial wind turbines that are breaking state noise regulations. The home owners continue to fight the poor placement of commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts has serious problems with poorly placed commercial wind turbines in residential neighborhoods. The neighbors describe the noise as torture. The torture is from lack of sleep and failing health resulting from the various types of noise from the wind turbines.

State, local officials, contractors and even the wind turbine company have always been aware of the noise problems prior to the installation of the wind turbines. Here is a link and letter addressed to the Town of Falmouth : http://www.windaction.org/posts/41357-vestas-raises-concerns-about-turbine-noise-letter#.VJGNSyvF-ek

Since the sale of the turbines to Falmouth the program director for the Mass Clean Energy Center has admitted in May of 2013 the turbines were installed “Ad Hoc” and now looks at 2000 foot setbacks to residential homes from commercial wind turbines.

Quote from MassCEC to pay litigation costs - but not to wind turbine victims :

“The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Board of Directors today approved up to $1.8 million in relief funds for the Town of Falmouth to help the municipality mitigate the financial impacts associated with the reduced operations of its town-owned wind turbine project located at the Town of Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant.With this funding, MassCEC seeks to help the town recover costs associated with project curtailment. To date the town has incurred unexpected costs resulting from community concerns, voluntary reductions in operation due to unanticipated sound levels and related litigation.”

http://www.masscec.com/news/energy-officials-approve-relief-funding-falmouth-community-wind-project