United States Judges: Shut Down Nuisance Municipal Wind Turbines USA

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United States Judges: Shut Down Nuisance Wind Turbines USA

Falmouth: A Twenty Million Dollar Civics Lesson on Taking Health & Property Rights For A Wind Turbine Agenda Gone Horribly Wrong

Falmouth Massachusetts USA July 19, 2017 
 
By June 20th, 2017 several Massachusetts Superior Court Justices have shut down two municipal wind turbines owned by Falmouth, Massachusetts USA .
The first was shut in September of 2015 the other in June of 2017 both turbines are Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines. The turbines, Falmouth Wind I and II were installed between 2010 and 2012.
The Vestas turbines were built on a platform of the NEG Micon NM-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbine. Both turbines generate a chest pounding 110 decibels of noise or what can be described as a hard rock band playing 24/7.
The Falmouth Board of Selectmen voted Monday, July,10,2016 not to appeal a judge’s decision ordering the shutdown of the town’s two massive wind turbines.
The Town of Falmouth still has until July,20,2017 to appeal the decision
The shut downs will mark the first time in United States history the courts have shut down municipal wind turbines.
The neighbors describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep and unable to work outdoors during the daytime.
The neighbors complain the turbines get to be jet-engine loud. These people suffer headaches, dizziness and sleep deprivation and often seek to escape the property where they've lived for more than 25 years.
The following video was recorded just prior to Falmouth Select Board decision not to appeal wind turbine lawsuits.
David Moriarty, a resident of Town of Falmouth, talks to an audience about the current status of the town owned wind turbines in Falmouth, MA after court injunction, and urges people in town to get involved with local decision makers and elected officials to stop appeal process which will be expensive and probably not succeed.
Moriarty says we are all responsible for when we let elected officials do as they please with public money, who then may lie to get away with it after the fact, and we have to hold them accountable.
-------------------------------------------Notes :
In May of 2013 the Town of Falmouth held a town wide vote to take down the turbines. The town voted 2 to 1 not to take down the turbines.
One little problem was the town never told the voters anything negative about the turbines.
They lied by omissions.
The Falmouth Energy Committee in 2005 had a map from KEMA Inc that showed a single Vestas V-82 wind turbine would create noise levels over 50 decibels on Black Smith Shop Road.
In 2005 the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center had warned of two distinct types of noise from the wind turbines measured in decibels and human annoyance. The reference to human annoyance was because in 1987 Scientist Neil Kelley working for US Department of Energy on wind turbines identified a direct link between impulsive infrasound and low-frequency noise, and adverse effects on people in Boone, North-Carolina. The warnings were dropped for the Falmouth studies.
At a Special Town Meeting June 29,2009, Town Meeting Members were shown power point presentations and led to believe around 5 million dollars for the building of the second wind turbine Falmouth Wind II was ARRA stimulus grant money when in fact the article was written as both a loan and a grant. - There was no free lunch .
The town of Falmouth, MA, secured funds and a waiver to purchase a foreign $4.3M wind turbine for its sewer plant. At least one domestic manufacturer,General Electric, could source a turbine, but according to the EPA, the domestic manufacturer cited the setback distance to residential homes and ice throw as the basis for its refusal to make its product available for this project. U.S. wind turbine makers must back their wares based on U.S. setback standards, based on rules to protect public risks like blade failures, unlike foreign manufacturers.
In the federal EPA waiver, the town referenced Special Permit 240-166. The town never filed the permit that would have required additional notifications to the neighbors. See--Federal Register, 4/27/2010, EPA Notice of a Regional Project Waiver of Section 1605 (Buy American) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to the Town of Falmouth, MA.
The federal ARRA stimulus grant/loan should never have been awarded. A federal grand jury is needed here.
Emails from Vestas employees also warned of the high decibel reading at the cut-out speed of the turbines. Town Meeting or the public never saw the emails.
On August 2, 2010, the town was warned in writing the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. The letter was never disclosed at the 2012 CBI, WTOP meetings.
The purpose of the Falmouth Wind Turbine Options Analysis Process (WTOP) was to engage in an open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of the range of options for the long-term future of the Town’s two Wind Turbines – Wind I and Wind II. The neighbors had complained about noise almost the day the turbines started
The Consensus Building Institute was paid just under $139,000.00, for an assessment; designing and convening the process; preparing for, traveling to, facilitating and documenting 24 meetings (including all expenses); and writing and revising a final report, over the course of 13 months. These meetings in 2012 can be confirmed this with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
The meetings were all video taped and shown on local Falmouth community cable television in hopes of educating the public
The September 12, 2012, video over whether the ARRA, stimulus fund was a loan or a grant was "lost " and never shown on local Falmouth television has been confirmed by the Consensus Building Institute but the public has never been made aware of the "lost" video.
Just prior to the town wide vote to take down the wind turbines in May of 2013 the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center the original owners of Falmouth Wind I sent a memo to the Town of Falmouth admitting major mistakes in acoustic noise models for the original turbine. Public never informed.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center wind director Nils Bolgen also in May of 2013 changed setbacks to 2000 feet. Again the public was never informed. 
Hiding the August 2010 Vestas letter warning of 110 decibels of noise, KEMA Inc map showing 5o decibels on Black Smith Shop Road, Vestas email correspondence warning of high decibels, April 2013 memo from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center admission of acoustic noise modeling "mistakes", Failure to produce the 110 decibel noise warning at the 2012 WTOP-CBI meetings, dropped warnings of two distinct types of noise from wind turbines, lost September 12 video and finally never filing Special Permit 240-166 as referenced in the federal EPA waiver was all a mistake or a slip up ? 
Finally ,

Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in North America.

You can all thank convicted Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi and Green Communities Act.

Sal DiMasi was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his conviction on political corruption charges.
Everyone involved in the Falmouth wind turbine installations was aware they were taking the health and property rights of citizens for an agenda gone horribly wrong
Today a 20 ( twenty ) million dollar civics lesson and Falmouth still faces multiple lawsuits

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