Falmouth Massachusetts Wind Turbines Taking Taxpayers To Cleaners

#Please don't let them put these in Maine!

Town of Falmouth Massachusetts Is Looking To Place An Old Wind Turbine Near You 

The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts installed two 110 decibel Vestas V-82 commercial wind turbines they knew would break state noise regulations between 2010 and 2012.

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection brokered loan on second wind turbine knowing it generated 110 decibels of noise. MassDEP is stuck in Regulatory Capture holding noise hearings for ten years never taking action against any wind turbine in as many as twenty-one communities.

Depreciation: Vestas V-82 town turbines formerly known as NEG Micon NM-82 no longer produced due to gearbox failures.

Maintenance: Yearly fees still being paid out for wind turbines as if they are operating.

Power: Electric power is used to operate air conditioning, heat, battery back up, computers and everything else in any kind of a power plant.

Loan Payments; Loan payments still being made on turbines. (MassDEP brokered Project Regulatory Agreement)

Liability: Massachusetts courts shut down both town-owned wind turbines, June 2017, as they are a nuisance. Town maintaining a nuisance.

Building Commissioner Rodman L. Palmer, December 2017, determined that the town’s wind turbine, Wind 1, is a non-complying structure and needs to come down.

On March 7, 2018, Susan Perez Executive Director of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust at the meeting of trustees reported the town of Falmouth has notified her they will be sending a letter asking for guidance as to whether various proposals regarding the Wind II turbine loan agreement.

Falmouth may have to pay back nearly $5 million in federal stimulus funds it borrowed from the State Reserve Fund. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds were deposited in the SRF, State Reserve Fund.

In January 2018, selectmen unanimously voted to ask town administration and town attorney to create requests for proposals (RFP) to either leasing property outside of Falmouth to run the wind turbines, sell the turbines, or repurpose a wind turbine tower.

Believe it or not, the town is still paying the original engineering firm hired to do noise studies and now help move the wind turbines.

The Town of Falmouth is looking to move these turbines out of town - While taxpayers being taken to the cleaners.

NIMBY -- Next It May Be You 

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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."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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