Wind Turbine "Fake News" Journalism Cape Cod

Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. The Massachusetts Democratic Party in 2008 had an agenda of 2000 megawatts of commercial land-based wind turbines by the year 2020.The land-based initiative has quietly ground to a halt over noise health issues and litigation. Today the only ones making money are Beacon Hill law firms.

Lying by omission is lying by either omitting certain facts or by failing to correct a misconception. Most of us think of omission as being news that should have been reported but is left out of the news we read and hear. When news facts are omitted, we get a skewed or biased perspective.

The news media today on Cape Cod is a combination of fake wind turbine news and lying by omission. This type of reporting has replaced investigative journalism which exposes the abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government officials. As citizens become more aware of the lack of quality of investigative journalism hundreds of newspapers have folded putting thousands of journalist out of work

Ten years ago news media outlets touted commercial wind turbines statewide with who, what, when, where and why. The politicians guaranteed it would produce enough energy to save the towns thousands of dollars a year and reduce the burning of fossil fuels. The news media would report the new installation of a wind turbine anywhere in the United States as another miracle.

The news media today remain core advocates of commercial wind turbines setting the agenda, shaping the issues and advancing the policy through fake news and lying by omission.

In 2009 the Otis ANG Base today is known as the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) installed a 1.5-megawatt Fuhrländer wind turbine. In 2011 the wind turbine gearbox had major problems. It was reported that the military base turbine had no major failures but was ordering a spare gearbox just in case. In 2012 the gearbox was replaced in which case the news media failed to report the story which includes the costs.

Wind turbine advocates and the news media don't want you to know a specialized crane for four days to replace a gearbox can cost as much as $200,000.00 for four days and a new gearbox as much as $650,000.00 which including a blade inspection near a million dollars.

Recently one Cape Cod newspaper reported a privately owned wind turbine in Falmouth underwent what was called normal maintenance bringing in a crane for four days and replacing a bearing.The other newspapers did not report the story at all after the turbine had been shut off for seven weeks. Again the costs of the work were not made public. The privately owned wind turbine is the same as the town-owned wind turbines. The Falmouth Select Board believes their shut down turbines have some value and do not want anyone to know about the costs of routine maintenance.

The media is well aware of the 1987 results of a US Department of Energy study done by scientist Neil Kelly in Boone, North Carolina which revealed low-frequency infra-sound was making residents sick. Falmouth, Massachusetts residents made the same reports in 2010 when that turbine started. Residents were unable to sleep or work in their yards during the day. The only recourse was to stay in the basement of get away from the house while the turbines operate.

Media sources have failed to report Falmouth Suicidal Ideation reports made as result of sleep and physical sickness as a result of turbine noise, low-frequency noise and vibrations described as something that can be felt.

The Falmouth residents have found ways to get away from the turbine noise which included moving away selling their home.

On February 9, 2016, a Florida, Massachusetts resident had nowhere else to go. The resident was unable to leave the property he loved. Wind development destroyed his peace and tranquility.He was tormented by the wind turbine demons: audible and inaudible (infra-sound). His last words to friends; "I can't take it anymore, I don't know what to do, ... something must change". He died alone on that cold winter night at one of his favorite places beneath those damn wind turbines. You're not ever going to read this in the local Cape Cod news media or any other Massachusetts news media outlet.

Massachusetts has dropped the land-based wind turbine agenda over health issues and massive litigation. The state has now turned to the ocean for wind turbine generation.

In 2015 construction started on five wind turbines off Block Island, Rhode Island and in addition sonic mapping of the ocean floor from the State of Maryland to Canada for wind turbine electric routes. Coincidentally Whale deaths increased dramatically since ocean wind turbine construction.

Tests and studies have shown that all whale species use sound for a number of different purposes: to navigate, to detect food, and to communicate with one another over long distances. Whale low-frequency deaths have been known for 20 years while human infrasound sickness since 1987.

The U.S. Navy and the National Marine Fisheries many years ago released a report acknowledging the role that the Navy's sonar played in the deaths of 17 marine mammals in the Bahamas in 2000. The report was the agency's first official admission that sonar may contribute to whale beachings.

There were no known Right Whale calves born in the winter of 2017/2018. This past winter has environmental and conservationists trying to save the North Atlantic right whale worried.

History is repeating itself again over wind turbine construction, underwater electric cable routes and sonic mapping of the ocean floor.

Researchers continue as in the past continue to ignore infrasound because of a political wind turbine agenda that would certainly affect their research grants now and in the future.

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# Note- The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts has never informed its own citizens it had received a letter from Vestas wind turbine company prior to construction which included emails that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise with a noise map from the year 2005 that show decibel readings on Blacksmith Shop Road will exceed 50 decibels of noise breaking state noise regulation (310 CMR 7.10).

The news media has letters, memos, maps , emails and documents but has made the choice not to print the August 2010 Vestas 110 decibel wind turbine warning letter but privately will admit "mistakes were made."

Letter : http://www.windaction.org/posts/41357-vestas-raises-concerns-about-turbine-noise-letter#.Wp1AGejwa02