Plymouth Wind Turbines Need Bourne BOH Variance

Mr. Keith Mann appeared before the Bourne Board of Health last December to discuss his plans to install four massive 500 foot wind turbines in Plymouth, MA, on the border of Bourne known as Future Generation Wind (FGW).

http://www.townofbourne.com/sites/bournema/files/minutes/minutes-file/december_10_2014.pdf
TOWN OF BOURNE BOARD OF HEALTH , 24 Perry Avenue

Buzzards Bay, MA 02532 Phone ( 508) 759- 0615 x 1 Cynthia A. Coffm
Fax (508) 759- 0679
Health Agent MINUTES December 10, 2014

“Mr. Andrews stated that Mr. Mann should address the Board of Health regulation starting with section 4. Mr. Andrews stated that this section gives a list of requirements for information that needs to be filed with the Board of Health.”

The wind turbines would be the largest every installed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and as large, or larger, than any land-based wind turbines in North America.

These industrial machines of colossal proportions will be sited in close proximity to Bourne residents and situated across from some densely populated neighborhoods, over water, across Buzzards Bay, which will cause the adverse impacts from the wind turbine noise to be far more pronounced than a similar installation that is separated from homeowners by land whose contours might attenuate some of the noise.

Additionally, it is a well-established fact that multiple large wind turbines in an installation are far more harmful than a single large-scale generator since the noise signatures can interact with each other, and even become synchronized.

It is also worthy of note that the distance between these industrial machines, which are approximately 100 feet taller and have a much wider rotor diameter than the Vestas V82 wind turbines in Falmouth
When Mr. Mann appeared before the Board of Health last December, members of the BoH expressed serious misgivings about the potential adverse impacts of the project upon the health and well-being, and the quality of life, of Bourne residents.

Numerous members of the Board of Health, including the chair, repeatedly advised Mr. Mann that Future Generation Wind should seek a variance from the Bourne Board of Health in order to proceed with the project -- and presumably present sufficient information to reassure the Board that the proposed project would not violate the health and safety standards in Bourne and expose Bourne residents to a significant health hazard.

At the time of his appearance, Mr. Mann was in the final stages of agreement to sell 100% of his equity interest in the Future Generation Wind special purpose corporation (a shell company known as a limited liability corporation) to Con Edison Solutions, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. -- even though the final agreement was signed within days of Mr. Mann’s appearance before the BoH.

As you are also aware, Mr. Mann has also completely ignored the stipulation by several members of the Board of Health -- which was repeated numerous times during the meeting -- stating the requirement for the project to obtain a variance in Bourne, and, by extension, to submit to further detailed review.

In the event, Mr. Mann promptly sold the shell company -- which insulates the owner of the LLC from any future financial liabilities and damages to anyone, except to the assets owned by the shell company (the wind turbines) -- to Con Edison Solutions.

The company -- now owned by Con Ed -- ordered the wind turbines and had them shipped to New Bedford.

Letter To Cape Cod Commission - Project Has All Permits ?

http://newgenerationdri.capecodcommission.org/ng930.pdf