Wind Turbines- Chickens & Weed Wackers

      Former Falmouth Energy Committee Member equates wind turbine noise to chorus of weed-whackers and clucking chickens. How would you like to try to go to sleep with that racket  ?

"KEVIN MURPHY: It was a mistake. It wasn't the right project. It wasn't the right location.

CORCORAN: Initially, complaints about health impacts were met with skepticism, and for three years the turbine issue festered. Today there are bumper stickers and lawn signs reading: Heal Our Town. And many residents, who don't even live near the turbines, say they have to go.

ROB MASTROIANNI: These folks living up on Blacksmith Shop Road, they are not nimbies, whiners or liars.

CORCORAN: That's Rob Mastroianni. He doesn't live near the turbines, but as a taxpayer he would have to pay for their removal. Selectmen say taking down and paying off the debt will cost the typical Falmouth household about $800 over 20 years. Mastroianni says he'll pay it.

MASTROIANNI: If my taxes go up a little bit, that's a small price to pay.

CORCORAN: Not for resident Joe Hackler. Amidst a chorus of weed-whackers and clucking chickens, he questions the legitimacy of the noise complaints.

(SOUNDBITE OF MACHINERY AND CHICKENS)

JOE HACKLER: That noise you hear in the background is a lot louder than those machines ever are."