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Financial implications of Article 25
Financial implications of Article 25
Financial implications of Article 25, funding the wind turbines, what the Town of Falmouth left out of the warrant article.
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What you need to know that the Select Board and Finance Committee left out of the description of Article 25. These are the people who issued the Article 25 warrant.
The warrant Article 25 was available 7 days ago and the warrant was closed.
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center after the article closed made an offer that effects Article 25. The Mass CEC is a state agency that burnt the Town of Falmouth with two noisy, nuisance commercial megawatt turbines with a court injunction on them.
A third party was not involved in Article 25 at the times the Articled closed. The recent drastic revelation has dire financial implications and requirements to give up home rule and make structural changes in town government. The deal also involves fines if production falls below certain levels.
Falmouth Town Meeting’s action is not valid unless the third party subject was listed on the warrant description. There should be a request: "no action on this article."
First Falmouth Wind 1 is ten years old, built in 2004, with a projected life of 20 years. New England history shows massive maintenance costs around five years of operation and again in another five years.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is offering a "new deal" with a 15 year REC , renewable energy credit. Ask yourself will the turbines go another 15 years ?
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center requires the turbines to operate 72 hours a week. Currently the turbines can only operate 12 hours a day six days of the week a total of 70 hours. Ask yourself what happens if the turbines don't operate 70 hours a week or like in many cases in New England it costs more to repair the turbine than to operate it ? You will be paying fines to the Mass CEC for years.
The Mass CEC in its statements says the "new deal" is complicated and there are an "assumptions."
On Monday afternoon April 7, 2014 the Falmouth Town Attorney will review the complicated new deal full of assumptions from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Town Meeting Members will vote on Article 25 Monday night.
