Wind Energy Siting Reform Act; Breaking Eggs - "You" September 19, 2017

H.2710---An Act relative to comprehensive siting reform for land based wind projects (WESRA)

Public Hearing Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at 1 PM

H.2710 - Wind Energy Siting Reform Act authorizes a state agency to override local decisions on permitting industrial wind turbines.

The dangers of the turbines are the noise, shadow flicker, blade and ice throw and property devaluation around the turbines.

At a public hearing in Barnstable in 2011 residents had been told the same thing about commercial wind turbines: “you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.”

Massachusetts politicians view the citizens who live around commercial wind turbines as broken eggs in a failed wind turbine agenda.

Wind turbine siting through the state agency the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has broken thousands of eggs in Massachusetts. NIMBY- next it may be you.

The bill also curtails opportunities for review and input by town boards and residents and eliminates important rights of appeal.

WESRA has not been enacted due to the efforts of thousands of people across the state and the consequent opposition of key legislators. Massachusetts already has twenty-one communities with poorly sited wind turbines no one wants more.

WESRA is a bad deal for towns and citizens throughout our state.

We need to keep local control and make a big push against WESRA on Tuesday. Make your voice heard.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H2710 Rep. Smizik

Please send your comments to:

Senator Michael J. Barrett, Senate Chair: Mike.Barrett@masenate.gov,

Rep. Thomas A. Golden, Jr., House Chair: Thomas.Golden@mahouse.gov

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The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals and forbids the creation of second-class citizens.

Massachusetts has already created a second-class group of citizens through the poor siting of commercial wind turbines across the state.

In 2004, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative now the Massachusetts Clean Energy a state agency gambled $5.28 million in public funds to purchase two new Vestas V82 wind turbines with a plan was to sell them to municipalities.

The wind turbines were warehoused in Texas at a cost of $3,500 a month. MTC’s next stop was Mattapoisett. By this time, 2007, the warranty on the towers had expired and the project was becoming politically embarrassing.

The state was complicit in the process, skirting constitutional land-use amendments and issuing a permit for a tower at Naskatucket Bay State Reservation.

The turbines proved a divisive fight in Mattapoisett. Those same turbines are now sited in Falmouth. For over seven years more than 50 Falmouth residents have complained about noise.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty on June 20, 2017, ordered the town of Falmouth to shut down two town-owned wind turbines as they are a nuisance.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center a state agency has already shown its total disregard for the health and safety of the citizens of Massachusetts

WESRA takes away all local control of commercial wind turbines and takes away Home Rule authority which was granted to cities and towns in 1966.

Do not allow the Wind Energy Siting Reform Act.

End the Beacon Hill corruption now