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Martha Coakley & Wind Turbine Victims

Attorney General Martha Coakley & Commercial Wind Victims  

Attorney General Martha Coakley has a Civil Rights Division which enforces and safeguards Constitutional and statutory civil rights and liberties on behalf of Massachusetts residents and visitors.  

What about wind turbine victims ? Just collateral damage ?  

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The question needs to be asked of  Attorney General Martha Coakley : if she were elected Governor of Massachusetts what would she do for the wind turbine victims in Massachusetts who have filed thousands of certified noise complaints ? The next question would be why have the civil rights of the wind turbine victims been ignored ?  

The Massachusetts Superior Court has already curtailed the operation of the Falmouth wind turbines.  

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Many people feel state and local politicians won't help the wind turbine victims because the Massachusetts Democratic State Party Platform has declared an actual real war on fossil fuels and the wind turbine victims are just collateral damage.  

The commercial wind turbines are seen as the weapon of choice against fossil fuel emissions. Politicians view the wind turbine victims as collateral damage and a minority of residents who must lose their health and constitutional property rights for no compensation for the greater good of the majority.  

Massachusetts has an "Agenda" of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. History is full of failed "Agendas."  

Wind turbine victims are now looking to federal civil rights litigation 42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights.  

Industrial wind turbines do not improve air quality, nor do they reduce fossil fuel emissions. Massachusetts air quality is worse today than four years ago despite all the poorly sited wind turbines.  

Falmouth Massachusetts is an example of the failure of the economics of commercial wind when the turbines affect the health, sleep and property values of local home owners. The Falmouth turbines are costing the taxpayers to operate the turbines as they have been shut down 12 hours a day because of noise issues and quality of life issues.  

Commercial wind turbines do affect the areas where wind turbines are located.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center who helps site commercial wind turbines admitted in 2013 that they used to site wind turbines "Ad Hoc" now look at setbacks to residential homes at 2000 feet and possibly further in 2014. An admission on poorly placed wind turbines in Massachusetts.  

For the sake of humanity stop the torture.  

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