Falmouth wind turbine neighbors called on the Board to shut down the machines before more harm is done, but the Board refused.
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The next Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process, WTOP, meetings will take place on January 8 and 9 from 6-9 PM at the Falmouth Public Library in the Hermann Room.
All meeting documents and updates are posted on the project website: cbuilding.org/falmouthwind Jan 8WTOP Meeting, Falmouth Public Library Hermann Room, 6:00 - 9:00 PM Jan 9WTOP Meeting, Falmouth Public Library Hermann Room, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Bill Carson
6:43 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The WTOP, Falmouth Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process, address is for the main library located at 300 Main Street, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540
mark cool
7:26 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Wind Turbine Options Process (WTOP) will soon finalize it’s report at these meetings. Selectmen will get their first look at the report Jan. 14 at the board’s Monday night meeting. Who, in all of this, remembers the number one reason why this problem gained Town Hall’s attention? What was the number one reason why the WTOP process was convened in the first place? Did it begin as an unexpected and troubling neighborhood health issue that now, nearly three years later and seemingly rebuked by our Board of HEALTH, has become a politically charged community controversy that needs a fix? “...we have to find a solution to the wind turbines” said Board Chairman Murphy, in a recent media interview, while pondering pressing municipal challenges.
Glory be... Our wind turbines suddenly can supply electricity to Town Hall. The light bulb has finally, miraculously, turned on!
Blowin Smoke
10:35 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Sleep disturbance was identified as the main problem, in the Board of Health's May 2012 hearing. As a result the Town's turbines are turned OFF every night. So why is any further "fix" needed? Does anyone know? Here's a hint,,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628850.200-the-sickening-truth-about-wind-farm-syndrome.html
Bill Carson
9:15 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Governor Patrick -Wind Turbines Make People Sick
Thousands of complaints are falling on deaf ears - politically deaf ears. Residents health issues are being put above financial gains !
Over 50 residents of Falmouth are sick from the sounds coming from a large, town-owned wind turbine. Mediation has been ongoing over eight months with no end in sight. Residents have left their homes and moved into basements.
Today residents of Scituate filed court action against the commercial wind turbines noise in that town. Low frequency sounds are making people sick !
Kingston has even more complaints which involve the board of health and future court action.
Fairhaven has been in court with noise and infra sound issues with the Board Of Health .
At a meeting last year residents were told you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette . The eggs are you and I . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
The megawatt turbines being sited in residential neighborhoods isn't working .Towns are looking at finances before the health of its citizens .
On top of the health issues catastrophic gear box failures are happening in three year old 5 million dollar commercial wind turbines - Portsmouth ,Rhode Island- Princeton ,Massachusetts - Otis ANG Base ,Cape Cod-. The Falmouth Wind 1 turbine almost three years old is having electric problems .The turbines were sold to last twenty five years and have million dollar repair bills every 3 to 5 years !!!!!!
Bill Carson
10:59 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Let's hope mediation works. The residents health comes before the town financial gain.
Scituate residents go to court over wind turbine issues
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/scituate/2013/01/scituate_residents_go_to_court.html
mark cool
8:51 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Last night's WTOP discussion, changing financial figures to appear more attractive, in the end, doesn't achieve the goal of the process. The primary catalyst that caused this process to be initiated, clearly identified in the report draft to date, is HEALTH concerns. The GOAL looming larger than more $$ projections for town energy saving or CO2 offsets for global climate control, that CANNOT be dismissed or further ignored once this process is complete, IS the need for the restoration of acceptable health and living conditions to FALMOUTH residents.
Blowin Smoke
11:06 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
"The British Acoustics Bulletin has just published what is now the 10th independent review of the evidence on wind farms causing annoyance and ill health in people. And for the 10th time it has emphasized that annoyance has far more to do with social and psychological factors in those complaining than any direct effect from sound or inaudible infrasound emanating from wind turbines"
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/much-angst-over-wind-turbines-is-just-hot-air-20111220-1p3sb.html#ixzz2HXfo6CIS
Bill Carson
6:17 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Blowin Smoke is sayng that thousands of noise complaints in Fairhaven, Falmouth, Scituate and Kingston is psychological ? The real problem here is the state and local officials who bought into the megawatt commercial wind turbines in residential backyards.These officials in Massachusetts want a lifetime job as elected officials .They have to act as our representatives and that means telling the truth .
Check out this news and video about Scituate people who can't sleep at night :
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/south/12009531356781/sleepless-in-scituate-turbines-keep-many-awake/
Bill Carson
9:19 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The CBI -WTOP group should go back and unseal the public testimony from 2009 to see who, what,where,when and how the state was aware of residential setbacks prior to the Falmouth installation .
The State of Massachusetts needs to go back and restore the testimony that was given by the public at the June 17, 2009 meeting in which DCR Commissioner Rick Sullivan, DOER Commissioner
Philip Giudice and members of panel hosted a wind turbine listening session held at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. MMA is located at 101 Academy Drive, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
The URL /links show the State of Massachusetts was well aware of siting issues in 2009 and at the meeting a state official commented to the people in attendance at the meeting "well now we know how not to site a wind turbine". The state then went forward with the 2010 installation of the Falmouth wind turbine and deleted the testimony from the state web site.
The testimony is embarrassing to the state officials .
Comment # 1 - 2009 remarks
http://www.mass.gov/Eoeea/docs/doer/renewables/wind/Public%20Comments_Listening%20Session%201_Bridget%20Earle.pdf
Comment # 2 - 2009 remarks
http://www.mass.gov/Eoeea/docs/doer/renewables/wind/Public%20Comments_Wind%20On%20State%20Owned%20Lands_Listening%20Session%201_Frank%20Haggerty%20%20Joe%20DeLeo.pdf
Comment # 3 -2009 remarks
http://www.mass.gov/Eoeea/docs/doer/renewables/wind/Public%20Comments_Listening%20Session%202_Mackenzie%20Waggaman.pdf