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Massachusetts Wind Turbine Corruption & Health

Catastrophic failure of the Massachusetts renewable energy goals has led to the loss of health and constitutional property rights.   Massachusetts corruption is the abuse of power by public officials. The state, local politicians and semi quasi agencies have taken the health and residential constitutional property rights of Massachusetts residents with no compensation through the poor placement of commercial wind turbines.    Massachusetts set a goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. There is proof that between 2004 and 2005 commercial wind turbine manufacturers and state agencies were aware of several types of nuisance noise and regulatory noise problems from the larger megawatt wind turbines.   In May of 2013 the program director for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center changed the setbacks to commercial wind turbines to 2000 feet admitting that in 2005 it was done on an "ad hoc" basis.     The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and local health boards have received thousands of certified noise complaints from abutters of commercial wind turbines. The result is the state and local boards have taken the view these people have lost their health and residential property rights and it's to expensive to compensate them. Town Meeting Members describe the property owners around turbines as toothpaste squeezed out of the tube. You can't get toothpaste back in the tube.   Towns have been given one sided studies paid for from resources at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center that only showed affirmative information and left out negative information. The towns of Falmouth, Fairhaven, Scituate and Kingston all have major issues over the poor siting of commercial wind turbines. A failure of "Due Diligence."   The Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform is made up of your state and local officials who have declared war on fossil fuels. The main weapon in the declared war is the commercial megawatt wind turbine as it gives the highest number of megawatts in the shortest period of time. Folks your local and state representatives are causing the collateral damage to your health and taking your property rights with no compensation.     Falmouth has several medical doctors reports on wind turbine noise healt issues and one case involving an attempted suicide.     Massachusetts public officials are denying procedural rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. The abutters of the wind turbines are being denied the basic right to equality before the law.   Corrupt political systems not only violate the basic right to equality before the law but deny procedural rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.   We need a "show me the money" corruption probe into the Massachusetts renewable energy programs. How many people are losing their health and property rights ? How much more are our electric bills going up ? How much are these ongoing litigation cases costing all of us ?

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