Massachusetts: Ten Years Of Wind Turbine Corruption

MassCEC Wind Turbine “Mistakes” Are Todays’ Lies & Omissions

Health :
The No. 1 problem with commercial megawatt wind turbines is health problems, such as chronic sleep loss and headaches. Massachusetts officials and local boards of health have been aware of these problems since wind studies in 1987.

Living near a single wind turbine brings harm from regulatory noise and “human annoyance” or what is called low frequency sounds generated by rotor blades that trigger a part of the brain which senses danger. Falmouth residents live near three commercial megawatt turbines. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the state after ten years has no guidelines for multiple wind turbine spacing near residential homes. The simple solution is they just omit the information because of the increase in health problems. The residents are called “collateral damage” in the so called war on fossil fuels.

You don’t have to be an expert in Health to understand that lack of sleep can lead to illness, and easily worsen any pre-existing condition.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center dropped the reference to “human annoyance” from the Falmouth wind studies and then three years after Falmouth Wind 1 was installed they slipped the Town of Falmouth a memo in 2013 saying they made mistakes in the acoustical noise studies for the wind turbine. Do you think they dropped the reference to “human annoyance” by mistake or was it because it caused to many problems in the Mattapoisett wind study prior to Falmouth ? An omission is a lie !

Nils Bolgen the wind turbine program director for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center was confronted in 2007 about a 23 page wind turbine report for the installation of wind turbines in Mattapoisett. The response to the many questions was engineering students at the University of Massachusetts had made “mistakes” in the report. The end result was the embarrassing report when when brought to public attention caused the Town of Mattapoisett to drop the wind turbine program all together. The report was a bag of worms.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center believes in sacrifice. Through a political agenda and what is called a so called war on fossil fuels they believe residential home owners have to be sacrificed for the greater good. You wonder if anyone at the state agency believes in God? They have determined through their wind studies what citizens lose their health and property rights for the greater good. They decide who gets fed to the Lions.

The MassCEC, state, local and even any professional journalist or any good editor of a newspaper knows commercial megawatt wind turbines don’t belong near residential neighborhoods. In retrospect it certainly was no mistake that each turbine installed in Massachusetts had an average affect on around 100 residential home owners. This was certainly not a mistake it was all by design. They had a formula to fit a certain amount of commercial wind turbines in the highly populated areas along the shoreline where the wind speeds could justify a profit on the turbines

Politicians;
Massachusetts local and state politicians are out of control installing commercial megawatt wind turbines while the news media is afraid of the state renewable energy agenda looks the other way.

Former Attorney General Martha Coakley refused to help the wind turbine victims as they were being made second class citizens losing their health and property rights. Martha went on to work for a law firm that specializes in wind turbine installations. This is the way things are done in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center officials who are spending money that belongs to the taxpayers need to account fully for every dime and be happy to do it. When officials become adversarial in reaction to questions from voters, they appear to have something to hide . The incomplete un leased 113 million dollar New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal is a total financial fiasco. There are no cranes, rail link and the hurricane gate only has a legal width of 120 feet. Specialized wind turbine jack-up barges don’t fit through the gates. The cost of the bond payments is $187,500.00 a month for thirty years and the terminal is not complete. The news media and the Mayor of New Bedford claim the terminal is complete while the owners of the terminal the Mass Clean Energy Center says it’s going into phase two. Everybody is lying.

Falmouth still has to deal with hidden documents from the installation of the Falmouth Wind 1. There are hidden warning letters, un posted negative studies, never released memos and 1.8 million dollars given to the town by MassCEC to pay litigation fees for the town. The plan is to outspend the wind turbine victims in court and continue permitting and court cases forever.

Now the plans on installing even larger turbines in Plymouth !

The Future Generation Wind turbines are to be 100 feet taller in height than those in other communities, including Falmouth, Fairhaven, Scituate and Kingston. The additional height will impact sound propagation.

The Falmouth and Kingston wind turbines have broken state noise laws. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental protection two days ago found the Kingston wind turbines out of compliance

The proposed Plymouth Gamesa G-97 turbines have a rotor diameter of 318’ - in comparison, for example, to the Kingston Independence turbine’s 242’ rotor diameter.

What is the “human annoyance” aka low frequency and infra-sound exposure might be for the neighbors in the 3 towns to be impacted from 4 wind turbines in Plymouth with such large rotor diameters ? Four turbines and again 400 residential homes sound familiar ?

The MassDPH and local Boards of Health have, in spite of being asked to investigate these noise types, so far refused to engage in any such investigation... which, of course, leaves the critical question of low frequency and infra-sound impacts un-investigated... therefore un-discussed and un-disclosed. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center was aware of “human annoyance” in 2004 why aren’t they warning the public ? Another omission

There was INCE Board Certified acoustic consultants who provided advice to Plymouth officials as to an appropriate setback for a single turbine and they specifically noted how additional separation would be required if there were to be multiple turbines constructed. This advice was set aside in favor of the wind developer’s consultant. History repeats itself again.

The acoustic report on file in Plymouth - as Kingston testing and measurements taken elsewhere can confirm - provides an inaccurate assessment of FGW noise impacts on the community.

It is high time the media shine a spot light on the fact that wind industry consultants who provided all of the pre-construction acoustic reporting upon which wind energy systems’ permits and approvals were based on seriously understated the post construction noise impacts.

Why doesen’t the news media report the negative side of commercial megawatt wind ? Are they finacially invested in commercial wind ? There are plenty of other sources of renewable energy that don’t take health and property rights.

These Plymouth reports, including the FGW acoustic impact report, contain multiple errors and omissions relative to acoustic impacts. A repeat of all other commercial megawatt wind turbines in Massachusetts.

Seen below, is an excerpt of the 2011 consultants’ letter on file at the Plymouth Zoning Board. This letter has been proven to have rightfully informed Plymouth town officials of the need for properly protective setback distances...it is unfortunate that this professional advice was ignored.

Dated: February 2, 2011
Subject: Proposed Wind Energy Facility in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts
Reference: Community Noise Impact Assessment

“...the only effective option for noise mitigation is an adequate separation distance from the nearest wind turbine to noise sensitive receptors. Quiet rural areas with nighttime ambient noise levels less than 30dB(A), require a separation distance of at least a mile and even more for multiple turbines.”