Falmouth Massachusetts Wind Turbines 38 Things You Need To Know

Falmouth Wind Turbines 38 Things You Need To Know

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Comment by Barbara Durkin on February 3, 2017 at 11:20am

Thank you, Frank.  We are dealing with a political agenda and tone deaf politicians.  They produced at least one noise study in MA that was challenged by many people and reported in many articles.

As you know....and as the State of MA has been notified by my written and oral comments-

Thousands of Massachusetts citizens have complained to their local boards and the state of MA about wind turbines operating where people live and congregate. 

 

Some time ago, Representative Keenan asked a key l question during a Tuesday’s Wind Hearing.  “What are the recommended set-backs for wind turbines from homes?”

Lilli Greene, who has traveled the world to interview professionals and scientists, regulators and victims of Wind Turbine Syndrome WTS, those suffering as well as studying harm to health caused by wind turbines, responded, “We don’t know”. 

 

Until we do, there should be a state-wide moratorium on wind turbine installations.  Victims of the human experimentation and exposure to industrial wind turbines have been by the thousands reporting an extensive list of symptoms consistent with what has been reported world-wide. 

 

The state has in response to numerous calls adverse health by residents conducted a literature review to put forth standards for the siting of wind turbines considered benign by the state’s design.  The bias in favor wind exhibited in the state’s wind turbine health impact study involves panelist Dora Mills, a strong wind energy supporter, (a prerequisite?), as example.   Ms. Mills was director of Maine Center for Disease Control, “quite strongly in support of wind turbines.”

 

Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Protection

Sun Journal November 10, 2010

Wind project manager: Nothing new in Spruce Mountain appeal

By Tony Reaves, Staff Writer

 

"...According to the DEP, the Mars Hill project was problematic because developers there were granted a variance from the noise limit. No variance was granted for the Spruce Mountain project.

Spruce Mountain's attorney, Rufus Brown, attacks both Patriot Renewables' methodology and the DEP for allowing turbine noise up to 45 decibels to reach nearby homes at night.

The appeal includes e-mails between Dora Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, and the DEP, obtained through a Freedom of Access request. In quotes excerpted by Brown, Mills expresses support for wind energy while expressing concerns about the effects of wind noise.

“She and the DEP worked together to present a public position dismissive of the health issues,” Brown's appeal says, then quoting a May 2009 e-mail from Mills where she said she is “quite strongly in support of wind turbines.”

These e-mails were released in December 2009 when Brown appealed a similar DEP permit approving the proposed Record Hill project in Roxbury.

The appeal argues that turbines will bring down property values, costing the town of Woodstock more in tax revenue than the $20,000 a year the wind developers will pay to the town..." cut full article below

 

Published on Wednesday, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:12 am | Last updated on Wednesday, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:12 am 3 Comments

Full Article:

WOODSTOCK — An attorney representing Friends of Spruce Mountain filed an appeal last week with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection over a land-use permit granted to Patriot Renewables to develop a wind farm.

The DEP granted a land-use permit on Oct. 5 for the 10-turbine, 20-megawatt wind farm, which included an analysis of environmental impacts caused by both the construction and the noise from the turbines.

Andy Novey, project developer for Patriot Renewables LLC, said most of the complaints were familiar from previous project appeals. “There doesn't seem to be a lot of new information in there,” Novey said.

At issue is the noise limit for wind turbines and potential health effects of that noise.

Novey said a 5 decibel safety buffer makes Patriot Renewables' models more conservative and safer than the Vinalhaven and Mars Hill wind farms that are cited as causing stress and anxiety to residents. Those projects were not built by Patriot Renewables.

According to the DEP, the Mars Hill project was problematic because developers there were granted a variance from the noise limit. No variance was granted for the Spruce Mountain project.

Spruce Mountain's attorney, Rufus Brown, attacks both Patriot Renewables' methodology and the DEP for allowing turbine noise up to 45 decibels to reach nearby homes at night.

The appeal includes e-mails between Dora Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, and the DEP, obtained through a Freedom of Access request. In quotes excerpted by Brown, Mills expresses support for wind energy while expressing concerns about the effects of wind noise.

“She and the DEP worked together to present a public position dismissive of the health issues,” Brown's appeal says, then quoting a May 2009 e-mail from Mills where she said she is “quite strongly in support of wind turbines.”

These e-mails were released in December 2009 when Brown appealed a similar DEP permit approving the proposed Record Hill project in Roxbury.

The appeal argues that turbines will bring down property values, costing the town of Woodstock more in tax revenue than the $20,000 a year the wind developers will pay to the town.

Denise Hall of Woodstock, vice president of Friends of Spruce Mountain, said she is happy with Brown's appeal. She said the $20,000 a year is a small price to pay for the losses to property value and residents' health.

Novey said Patriot Renewables hopes to break ground on the Spruce Mountain project in the spring

 

Mass: Wind turbine critics question panel’s report on health impacts

By Kyle Cheney / State House News Service
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - Added 1 month ago

 

“When I read the report, I saw many of the same patterns that where the information is cherry-picked we saw early on with those issues, despite tremendous amounts of information,” she said. “The people who are suffering are dismissed as having annoyance … The patterns are the same and the outcomes are the same.” … Eleanor Tillinghast

By Kyle Cheney / State House News Service

http://fiwn.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/mass-wind-turbine-critics-ques...

Enterprise

Residents Call State Turbine Study Faulty And Biased

http://www.capenews.net/communities/region/news/1672

  January 21, 2012 • Massachusetts

Wind farm critics slam health study; Patrick standing by controvers...  

Credit:  Christine Lee, 22News State House Correspondent, WWLP, www.wwlp.com 20 January 2012

January 21, 2012 • Massachusetts

State agencies have released a report on the health effects of wind turbines. The report found that turbines do not cause adverse health effects. Governor Patrick is standing by the report, but wind farm critics are calling those findings into question.

“It’s a one-sided report,” said Virginia Irvine of Brimfield, a town where a proposed wind farm caused great controversy.

Neil Andersen lives near a wind turbine in Falmouth and says he is upset with the findings. “I got to the first page saying that my problems, my health problems, don’t exist.”

The Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Protection have released an independent Wind Turbine Impact Study. Results say there is no scientific proof linking wind
turbines to negative health effects. But folks who live by them disagree, complaining of headaches, stress and nausea.

“We have shadow flicker. You know it’s like a disco in our kitchen, and also I have some ringing in my ears,” said Malcolm Donald, who also lives near the Falmouth wind farm.

Critics demand an epidemiological study be done that compares the health of people who live by wind turbines with those that don’t.

“I am talking to the Governor. This has gone on way too long and he knows it and he knows the truth and it’s time you got down to Falmouth and straighten this out,” said David Moriarty of the group Windwise Mass.

Patrick, who aims to develop 2,000 megawatts of wind power by 2020, is defending the report. “I think that what the DPH did was exactly what they should have done, which is open a process that brought in expert advice. I’m sure that report isn’t going to please everyone,” Patrick said.

The governor said our energy future will not depend on any one alternative, and the state study acknowledges that they need to look further into the “annoyance” that wind turbines can cause.

This article is solely the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/21/wind-farm-critics-slam-he...

Falmouth turbine foes reject state study

By JON OFFREDO

joffredo@capecodonline.com

January 24, 2012 2:00 AM

FALMOUTH — Residents who say the Wind 1 turbine is detrimental to their health shared their reactions Monday night about the state-commissioned study that rebuffed many of their claims.

The Wind 1 turbine was shut down in November after residents reported they were suffering from sleep deprivation, depression and tinnitus among other health problems.

Kathryn Elder told the board of health she was among those residents who experienced problems with the turbine.

"It has nothing to do with carbon footprints. It has nothing to do with how much money has been spent in investments. It has to do with our basic rights and freedom," she said. "If we can't uphold our basic right to get a good night's sleep in this country, something is wrong."

The turbine has been a source of controversy in Falmouth for more than a year now, with the latest study adding an additional source of debate.

The study, commissioned by the state and conducted by multiple medical experts based in Massachusetts, found no evidence that noise and shadow flicker from wind turbines directly harm people living near the machines.

The study did, however, mention it was possible that noise from some turbines can disrupt sleep.

Board member George Heufelder told residents that he has visited the turbines, stood under them and tried to get a sense of what the experience was like. The hang-up has always been in finding a definitive and scientific way of proving all of the claims were definitely linked to the turbines via sampling and what would come next from the board.

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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