Massachusetts Lost the Renewable Energy Goal

  How Massachusetts Lost the Renewable Energy Goal  

Massachusetts has a renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform has declared an actual war on fossil fuels and announced it is fighting that war just like an actual war.  

During the last ten years the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, executive branch of government and Governor Patrick have used commercial wind turbines to achieve the renewable energy goal as quickly as possible. They have used whatever means possible to persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, stakeholders and wind turbine contractors to build commercial wind turbines in the areas with the most wind resources.  

The high wind areas of Cape Cod and South East Massachusetts have high concentrations of population along the ocean. The residential home owners or what are called the original stakeholders have been moving into these small communities for the last 50 years. The placement of commercial wind turbines ad hoc in these communities has caused major health issues, ongoing litigation and fractured communities.  

Falmouth has become ground zero for the poor placement of commercial wind turbines in the United States.  

Many state agencies are stacked with former wind turbine contractors or individuals from companies and law firms with profitable interest in commercial wind. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has conflicting issues over commercial wind turbines as thousands of noise and shadow flicker complaints have poured in from residential towns.  

Massachusetts over the past eight years has used climate change, rising ocean waters and fossil fuel emissions through public relations to convince cities and towns to buy into commercial wind.The result today is fractured communities. The end of town without the wind turbines has been convinced green energy gives the town an unending revenue source while the people living around the wind turbines can't sleep at night. Meanwhile the state keeps ignoring the wind turbine victims who describe the noise as torture and only cares about the year 2020 renewable energy goal.  

Every week for years now the state and its renewable energy agencies have issued press releases advancing renewable energy through commercial wind. The press releases have been directed at members of the news media and the news media has taken these releases as newsworthy. The press releases are reproduced in the news media with no consideration of the abutters of the wind turbines.  

Massachusetts taxpayers and electric rate payers pay taxes to have these press releases produced to the news media through the various state agencies.  

The wind turbine victims / abutters to the wind turbines do not have the resources to pay for press releases or hire a public relations firm to get their issue of noise and shadow flicker out to the public. The majority of the public is only getting the viewpoint of the state with its renewable energy agenda of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020.  

The state has had a policy to act bewildered, mystified and confuse local residents over their rights and health issues. Many residents in several towns were made to file certified noise complaint forms about wind turbine noise with the hopes people would give up and go away.   

Today the certified complaints have come back to haunt local and state officials as the complaints have been heard in Fairhaven, Falmouth, Scitutate, Kingston and nineteen other Massachusetts communities.  

The concerned citizens of Massachusetts need to have the editors of newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations and networks take a look at the residential constitutional rights and health of all the wind turbine victims in Massachusetts. The news media needs to help ask for a moratorium on the installation of commercial wind turbines. If not for themselves for the sake of humanity.   

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in June of 2003 admitted in a New Bedford news paper that most commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts have been installed ad hoc in the past. An admission of failure.  

Here is the latest 2013 quote from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center : "Now, all turbine proposals within 2,000 feet of residences must provide that data."  

Folks, Massachusetts has made catastrophic mistakes building commercial wind turbines too close to residential homes. The result is health issues from lack of sleep and now years of litigation causing massive financial costs on taxpayers.  

The term has been used that the taxpayers of Massachusetts are paying for the bullets to shoot themselves in the foot.  

Time to wake up and ask your elected officials what is going on.