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This week we highlight the recent 12/12/2011 Board of Health meeting. Over 100 residents in attendence, some spilling into the hallway.
This week we highlight the recent 12/12/2011 Board of Health meeting. Over 100 residents in attendence, some spilling into the hallway.
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One man's story in Falmouth:FALMOUTH, Mass. — Standing on his home’s porch, Neil Andersen points through the thicket of trees in his front yard and across Blacksmith Shop Road towards one of his closest neighbors: A wind turbine.
“Right now we are 1,320 feet, which is one-quarter mile south of Wind One, which is Falmouth’s first wind turbine. It’s been online since April. And we’ve been trying to get it stopped since April,” Andersen says. Wind One, as the turbine is officially called, is owned by the town of Falmouth and is located at the town’s wastewater treatment plant, where it stands 262 feet tall to the turbine’s hub. That’s about 10 feet taller than the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown. The blades extend just shy of 400 feet, which is about half the height of the John Hancock Building in Boston. When it was installed last spring, Andersen didn’t think Wind One would cause a problem. For 35 years, he’s owned and operated a passive solar company on Cape Cod. The energy conservationist in Andersen considered wind power a good principle. He wasn’t alone — before the turbine switched on, Falmouth residents almost universally welcomed Wind One as a symbol of renewable energy and a way to keep taxes down. “I was proud looking at it from this viewpoint — until it started turning,” Andersen said. But now, as many as 50 people are complaining about the turbine and the noise it makes at different speeds. A dozen families are retaining a lawyer for that reason. -As reported by Sean Corcoran
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Questions NOT answered
1.) When industrial wind turbines burn, unless the community has access to a plane that can conduct a chemical drop, Firefighters have no choice but to let it burn itself out. They also have no control over where the debris may land. There have been a total of 71 Fires in the past 5 years (through September 30th 2011) on wind turbines and 2 fires on Sinoval 1.5 units in particular in 2010. The Narcell of a wind turbine contains over 200lbs of carcenegenic chemicals, what steps has the Town of Fairhaven taken to ensure the health and safety against fire for the neighbors 900 feet away? I did not read in any of the feasible studies done by the town plans in regards to such issues. Has our department been trained in such events or do we have an action plan with a plane? How about the new Woods School is there an action plan to shut down the HVAC system?
2.) By far the biggest number of accidents on wind turbines were due to “Blade Failure” which can arise from a number of possible sources, and arise in either the whole blade or pieces of the blade being thrown from the turbine. A total of 220 separate incidences were found (104 of them in the last 5 years). Pieces of the blades are documented traveling up to 1300 meters (4265.09 feet). In Germany, blade pieces have gone through the roofs and walls of nearby buildings. This is why many believe that there should be a minimum distance of 1.5 miles between turbines and occupying housing in ordered to address public safety issues. Is the town admitting that they are aware of these issues and still decided to proceed with the project?
3.) The feasible studies done for the town of Fairhaven were funded by the “Massachusetts Technology Collaborative” whom has a vested monetary interest in the placement of wind turbines as they had just purchased 2 wind turbines at the cost of 5.28 million dollars. The sound study done was completed by UMass Amherst whom In their early studies called for 1200 foot setbacks which are still way out of line given what we know today and the recent information in Falmouth. However when the Fairhaven Project came along they changed their setbacks limits to fit the Fairhaven Project. UMass has also received donation money from the wind companies. Wouldn’t it be more advantageous to have the studies done by parties not influenced by the monetary gain? Please address this!
4.) Our own states Attorney General Martha Coakley testified at a hearing before the joint committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy that “Despite helping stimulate job growth in the clean energy sector, the states 2008 Green Communities Act has come at a cost to consumers, which is expected to grow by $4 Billion over the next four years. She also states the implementation of wind energy will cause delivery costs of electricity to rise 7 percent by 2015. I have spoken with a Town of Dartmouth selectmen whom claimed the reason they voted against there project recently was in part due to there being little financial gain and actually cost the town money due to years of fighting pending law suits from local residents. Does the Town of Fairhaven have any studies or information that estimate predictions on the increases for us locally due to this project?
2.) By far the biggest number of accidents on wind turbines were due to “Blade Failure” which can arise from a number of possible sources, and arise in either the whole blade or pieces of the blade being thrown from the turbine. A total of 220 separate incidences were found (104 of them in the last 5 years). Pieces of the blades are documented traveling up to 1300 meters (4265.09 feet). In Germany, blade pieces have gone through the roofs and walls of nearby buildings. This is why many believe that there should be a minimum distance of 1.5 miles between turbines and occupying housing in ordered to address public safety issues. Is the town admitting that they are aware of these issues and still decided to proceed with the project?
3.) The feasible studies done for the town of Fairhaven were funded by the “Massachusetts Technology Collaborative” whom has a vested monetary interest in the placement of wind turbines as they had just purchased 2 wind turbines at the cost of 5.28 million dollars. The sound study done was completed by UMass Amherst whom In their early studies called for 1200 foot setbacks which are still way out of line given what we know today and the recent information in Falmouth. However when the Fairhaven Project came along they changed their setbacks limits to fit the Fairhaven Project. UMass has also received donation money from the wind companies. Wouldn’t it be more advantageous to have the studies done by parties not influenced by the monetary gain? Please address this!
4.) Our own states Attorney General Martha Coakley testified at a hearing before the joint committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy that “Despite helping stimulate job growth in the clean energy sector, the states 2008 Green Communities Act has come at a cost to consumers, which is expected to grow by $4 Billion over the next four years. She also states the implementation of wind energy will cause delivery costs of electricity to rise 7 percent by 2015. I have spoken with a Town of Dartmouth selectmen whom claimed the reason they voted against there project recently was in part due to there being little financial gain and actually cost the town money due to years of fighting pending law suits from local residents. Does the Town of Fairhaven have any studies or information that estimate predictions on the increases for us locally due to this project?
