Take a small Massachusetts township, add two wind turbines, mix with hubris and arrogance and you have a perfect recipe for disaster. In the beginning, there was the notion that a wind turbine or two would help Falmouth save on power costs and unite the community in an effort to purportedly save the planet. That … Continue reading Falmouth’s Two Turbine Wind Farm Fiasco: Shutdown Order Leaves Town $7,000,000 in Debt
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Falmouth Locals Celebrate Brilliant Victory: Noisy Wind Turbines Finally Silenced & Banished Forever
Beating the wind industry takes tenacity, patience and perseverance. In Falmouth, Massachusetts that combination helped locals regain their town after two Vestas V82s were speared within a few hundred metres of homes set in, once perfectly peaceful, idyllic rural countryside. Practically incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound literally drove neighbours nuts, for years. … Continue reading Falmouth Locals Celebrate Brilliant Victory: Noisy Wind Turbines Finally Silenced & Banished Forever
Falmouth’s Victory: Noisy Community Destroying Wind Turbines to Be Demolished
Back in November 2013, we reported on the orders made by a Court in Falmouth, Massachusetts that pulled to a halt the operation of a couple of Vestas V82s that have been driving townspeople nuts, since they kicked into gear almost 7 years ago (see our post here). We’ve also reported on Barry Funfar, a former … Continue reading Falmouth’s Victory: Noisy Community Destroying Wind Turbines to Be Demolished
Locals Ecstatic: Judge Shuts Down Falmouth Wind Turbines
The long-running saga of Falmouth's two community tormentors has turned a corner, towards decency and human compassion. Falmouth ordered to shut down turbines Cape Cod Times Ethan Genter 20 June 2017 BARNSTABLE — A Barnstable Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the town of Falmouth to shut down two town-owned wind turbines. Judge Cornelius Moriarty … Continue reading Locals Ecstatic: Judge Shuts Down Falmouth Wind Turbines
The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
As it goes in Falmouth, the wind industry goes everywhere: lying, bullying, bribery and good old fashioned fraud is the order of the day. Local boy, Frank Haggerty digs the dirt where the popular press fear to tread. Falmouth wind turbines corruption blows out of control Wind Action Frank Haggerty 1 May 2016 The Falmouth … Continue reading The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts
**** In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts
Fraud in Falmouth MA – Town Relied on Acoustic Consultants’ Faked Vestas Wind Turbine Noise Report
There aren’t many certainties in life, save death and taxes. But STT is happy to add - without reservation - to that short-list, another: that you’ll never find the words ‘integrity’ and ‘wind industry’ coupling up in the same sentence. Lies, fraud and corruption are the norm; and that extends to the industry’s pet acoustic … Continue reading Fraud in Falmouth MA – Town Relied on Acoustic Consultants’ Faked Vestas Wind Turbine Noise Report
Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster
**** The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? … Continue reading Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster
Turbine Shut Down Order Instantly Restores Victims’ Health: Neighbours Rejoice at 1st Decent Night’s Sleep in Years
**** Falmouth wind turbine to be shut down Cape Cod Times Sean F. Driscoll 28 September 2015 FALMOUTH — One of the town’s twin wind turbines will be shut down after the Board of Selectmen voted Monday night to comply with a recent order to temporarily stop its operation. During a closed-door meeting, the board … Continue reading Turbine Shut Down Order Instantly Restores Victims’ Health: Neighbours Rejoice at 1st Decent Night’s Sleep in Years
Wind Turbine Infrasound: an “Acoustic Trespasser”
**** Despite its best efforts to bury the adverse health impacts of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, as a result of lots of continuous complaints from neighbours, and the dedicated work of a few ethical acousticians out to help them, the wind industry has lately been called to account. It's taken time - … Continue reading Wind Turbine Infrasound: an “Acoustic Trespasser”
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