Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Massachusetts: Organizing Against Nuisance Commercial Wind Turbines Near Your Property

Massachusetts: Organizing Against Nuisance Commercial Wind Turbines Near Your Property

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is involved in Power Production Agreements with local town governments that help finance commercial wind turbine projects since 2011. They can not help home owners enforce state noise regulations as the past financial agreements have tied their hands

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has a legislative mandate to obtain 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.

The father of the Green Communities Act former Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi just got out of federal prison for corruption after eight years. Former Governor Deval Patrick at the trial of Sal DiMasi admitted he used the fake email address of sally.reynolds@state.ma.us. It is believed the email address was used to avoid FOIA, Freedom of Information Act Request with correspondence with wind turbine contractors.

Beacon Hill or local state representative probably is not much help.

The news media was sold on the Green Energy Agenda as it was a safe reliable means of reducing the state carbon foot print. Safety and Health took a backseat to commercial wind turbine installations.

The state, local governments, state agencies and the news media continue to ignore the health and safety of those who live around commercial wind turbines

Those living around the wind turbines need to establish a group and give that group a name. State legislators are aware that each person that shows up at a meeting equals ten votes as those people go back and talk to family members.

You can start your group at local town meetings over wind turbines by taking names and email addresses of anyone with the hopes of educating everyone on the drawbacks to wind turbines.

Many times neighbors of turbines are given studies of the wind turbines produced by the state and wind turbine contractors. You have to look for what is " not " in the study as negative information is left out. For example, older Massachusetts studies prior to 2006 did warn of two distinct types of noise from wind turbines. Regulatory noise measured in decibels and human annoyance which today we know as they did as far back as 1987 is wind turbine infrasound.

Social media is very important. You can go on Facebook and create a group and then share the groups' thoughts over social media. Each person that then shares the story is multiplied by the number of friends on everyone else's page. When you establish a Facebook group you can publish how your local politicians voted on wind turbine projects

Massachusetts Windwise has a social page on Facebook and a Twitter feed. Members of the group need to go on those pages and retweet the local story that day hoping it will take off in social media

The local media is usually for Green Energy but will allow you to place a letter to the editor in their paper. When your letter gets published you can send the letter with the link to national websites that help educate the public on the health and safety issues. Some groups are National Wind Watch, Windaction.org or look at the Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to get some insight.

In many cases wind turbine contractors give your local town wind studies. It is important to obtain those studies through Freedom of Information Act requests and post them on Social Media so you and your group can read them. The last resort is making copies of the studies and distributes the studies to all those around the wind turbine project explaining your health and home property values are going down the drain.

At local meetings, you have to get up and tell the politicians how you feel about the wind turbine project.

Do not start your public meeting by apologizing that you are speaking out against Green Energy but your against placing commercial wind turbines near your home. The news media, state agencies, and politicians know all about the poor siting of commercial wind turbines. The Massachusetts Superior Court has shut down both Falmouth town owned wind turbines as they are a nuisance.

Massachusetts state and local officials for years hid negative information over the Falmouth wind turbines that shows they should never have been built.

Massachusetts has a political agenda of a war on fossil fuels which was a former National political agenda. The war on fossil fuels allows for collateral damage which is you the public living around the turbines. An example of this was a public meeting in Barnstable, Massachusetts after the installation of the first Falmouth wind turbine during complaints a state politician said you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

The best thing to do is stop the wind turbine project in the very beginning as in Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester Massachusetts.

Waiting too long then requires hiring attorneys and acoustic experts and years of court action against the installations

Everyone should be aware the state of Massachusetts because of residential complaints about commercial wind turbines and legal shut downs is in the process of using the state of Maine to implement the Massachusetts renewable energy goals

The residents of Maine are taking action.

The residents of Massachusetts facing wind turbine installations have to get on Social Media and get the word out.

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Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 1, 2017 at 9:48pm: A good ordinance is only half the battle. An ordinance can be only as good as the people who administer and enforce it. That means no citizen should be blasé about how well their community is protected by their ordinance. You have to get involved and stay involved and make sure your town boards and officials are doing their jobs as the ordinance intends. The developers don't hesitate to bring lawyers to the meetings and the boards can be intimidated even if they have their own legal advisor. In my view, the towns that have been able to hold up to the challenge had a core group that valued their community more than they valued money. And that was more important than starting out with the right ordinance. That group worked and got their community the protection it deserved and wasn't naïve about the honesty and good will of the developers.

Comment by Art Brigades on August 30, 2017 at 1:30pm: Good news: there’s no need to re-invent the wheel. Dozens of Maine communities have adopted a wind ordinance. Some simply wrote their own, others used a bare-bones template provided by the State Planning Office. (That is a good starting point, but no town should adopt the state's version as-is.) Some of the best written wind ordinances are in little towns like Sumner, Thorndike, Phillips and Buckfield. See the list HERE, many with live links to the actual ordinance, or relevant news stories.

Comment by Frank Haggerty on August 29, 2017 at 4:23pm: Falmouth -- Zoning -Nuisance -Wind Turbines -Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly http://masslawyersweekly.com/2017/08/29/zoning-nuisance-noise-wind-... Zoning – Nuisance – Noise – Wind turbines Superior Court By: Tom Egan August 29, 2017 Where the Falmouth zoning board found that the town’s operation of two wind turbines constituted a nuisance, that decision was not arbitrary and capricious, as the board relied on evidence showing that noise from the turbines has directly and negatively affected the health and well-being of neighboring landowners. “… In support of its decision, the ZBA ... log in to continue reading......

Comment by Eskutassis on August 29, 2017 at 11:59am: The people of Massachusetts also have to know that just because they don't want wind turbines in their back yards, we don't want their wind turbines in OUR Back Yards either. Write to Mass newspapers and news agencies and tell them. Talk to people in Mass that you know. Write to Mass Republican politicians (very few of them) so they know our plight. The time for action is NOW!

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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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