Falmouth Ma. NUISANCE Wind Turbine 60 Day Appeal Time Expired -Time To Pay & Remove

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Note # below a news item from the Boston Globe. On June 20, 2017,  Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty ruled the two towns owned wind turbines are a nuisance. Municipalities have 60 days to appeal a case. They did not appeal the case the turbines have to come down 

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Two Cape windmills have stopped spinning, but someone still has to pay

Falmouth selectmen decided Monday not to appeal a judge’s determination that the wind turbines, like those above, are a nuisance and must be shut down.
By Jon Chesto GLOBE STAFF  JULY 12, 2017
The costs of the Wind Turbine Curse keep adding up.
A cursed windmill? That’s how I described the Falmouth tower known as “Wind 1” in 2012. And the legal battles were just getting started.

Now, the court fights might finally be over. The bills? That’s another story.
The Falmouth selectmen decided Monday not to appeal a judge’s determination that Wind 1 and its younger sibling, Wind 2, are a nuisance and must be shut down. This essentially marks the end of the two turbines in town.
Wind 1 arrived with an already troubling past. A predecessor agency to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center ordered it in 2005 for Orleans. But that project fell through, and the agency spent $146,000 in ratepayer funds to store its parts until Falmouth stepped up in 2009 to buy it.
Wind 1, and then Wind 2, were simply built too close to homes. Neighbors complained of health problems, ranging from sleeplessness to tinnitus. They headed to court. Eventually, the windmills were shut off at night. Finally, Wind 1 was put on hold. And Wind 2, town manager Julian Suso says, stopped spinning last month because of the judge’s decision.
About those bills. Suso tells me the town is obligated to make $4.6 million in bond payments for Wind 1 over 12 years, and to pay nearly $1.7 million to the MassCEC over 15 years. For Wind 2, the town is now on the hook for $4.9 million to the state’s Clean Water Trust.
State and town officials are negotiating Falmouth’s total tab. But in the end, someone’s still going to have to pay.
Contact Jon Chesto at jon.chesto@globe.com and follow him on Twitter @jonchesto.

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Comment by Frank Haggerty on August 24, 2017 at 8:29am

Massachusetts had a commercial wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of commercial wind turbine power by the year 2020. Massachusetts today has twenty-one communities with poorly placed commercial wind turbines. Every time a wind turbine goes up another law firm is hired to fight the noise and shadow flicker.

The result is Massachusetts only has around 110 megawatts of commercial wind power because of a wind turbine agenda have gone horribly wrong.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center a Massachusetts semi quasi-state agency now seeks to achieve their goal by placing their failed wind turbine renewable goals on the unsuspecting citizens of Maine 

Industrial Wind Turbines: An Upper Cape Dilemma July 2017 #3

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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