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Fairhaven Wind Turbine dispute gets louder
May 22, 2013 by Mark Curtis in ABC6 TV

Tuesday night's Board of Health meeting erupted in angry shouts. This after the state Department of Environmental Protection showed the wind turbines often exceed legal noise limits.

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State finds Fairhaven turbines in violation of noise regulations
May 22, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today

DEP Deputy Commissioner Martin Suuberg told the Board of Health that noise from the turbines exceeded state regulations in five of the 24 periods during which the DEP conducted testing. ...many in the audience began shouting for Board of Health Chairman Peter DeTerra to make a motion to shut down the wind turbines until Fairhaven Wind presented the board with a mitigation plan.

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Can wind turbines make you sick? No easy answers as turbines pop up around the world
May 17, 2013 in Latitude News

After years of complaints about noise and health effects, on May 21, 2013 residents of Falmouth, MA will vote on whether or not to tear down both of the town's wind turbines.

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Lack of wind halts Scituate wind turbine studies
May 11, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger

A group of residents have complained that the noise and shadow flicker from the turbine, erected last year, are hurting their health. At the behest of the town's board of health, Scituate Wind hired Tech Environmental to see if the turbine complies with state noise standards.

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Zoning board to vote on assertion that turbines are excessively noisy
May 2, 2013 by Michael C. Bailey in The Enterprise

Neil P. Andersen of Blacksmith Shop Road filed the appeal in November, asking the zoning board to overturn Building Commissioner Eladio R. Gore's ruling that Wind 1 did not present a nuisance by virtue of excessive noise-a ruling issued in response to a complaint by Mr. Andersen.

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Scituate Town Meeting: Voters narrowly reject article to shut down wind turbine
April 19, 2013 by Ruth Thompson in Wicked Local Scituate

Thompson said that placing a 400-ft tall industrial wind turbine within 650 feet of a residence was "outrageous." "But that is exactly what has happened in the case of the McKeever family," he said. "And legislation allows wind developers and their engineering supporters to proceed with these developments using modeling that grossly understates the levels of noise and strobe light generated by these industrial wind turbines."

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Scituate selectman candidates talk wind turbine
April 12, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger

Burbine, 64, a small-business owner, said the residents who live near the turbine, which is off the Driftway, need relief. ..."You can't help but feel empathy, and (I'm) so sad for those people that are dealing with all of this without any real recourse," Burbine said."If we've got to spend a little bit of money, risk-wise, to say, ‘OK, let's turn it off from 7 p.m. at least until first thing in the morning,' we might risk $100,000," Gilmore said. "What's $100,000 (if we're protecting residents)?"

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Fairhaven official apologizes for turbine 'suffering'
April 10, 2013 by Ariel Wittenberg in South Coast Today

Murphy said he hopes to provide some relief for the 57 families who have filed complaints about the turbines at the wastewater treatment plant on Arsene Street, including the noise they generate. "I am sorry for all of your suffering and what you have been through," he said. "I realize that many of you tried to speak out and were denied a place on our agenda, and I thank you for your persistence."

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Falmouth Town Meeting voters refuse to fund removal of wind turbines
April 10, 2013 by Scott A. Giordano in The Bulletin

Although it passed by a simple majority, Article 22 failed to yield the 2/3 majority needed for a vote on borrowing money. Selectmen plan to present an amended warrant article when special Town Meeting resumes at 7 p.m. April 10 at the Lawrence School auditorium. ...While Town Meeting Member Marc Finneran said, "This pits money against people's welfare, and I always come down on the side of people's welfare."

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Turbines create headache for Falmouth
April 6, 2013 by Sean Teehan in Cape Cod Times

"This is something that has polarized the community. It was a situation in which Murphy's Law played out," said Selectman Kevin Murphy, chairman of the board, with no pun intended. ...But the suffering Falmouth residents endure in their own homes requires the turbines' removal, Cool said.

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Kingston Board of Health turbine monitoring request denied
April 5, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston

“We have filed noise complaints with the Board of Health since May of 2012, we have been at every meeting and have led most of the discussions regarding noise issues related to the Independence turbine and the negative impact to our lives,” Doreen Reilly said. “It is crucial that our home be included as part of the acoustical sound study.”

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Scituate Wind: Two firms, two studies
April 4, 2013 by Ruth Thompson in Wicked Local Scituate

Two firms - one chosen by the board of health and another chosen and paid for by the neighbors of the turbine - will be conducting sound analysis on the turbine.

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Falmouth To Vote On Removing Wind Turbines
April 2, 2013 by Bob Oakes and Kathleen McNerney in WBUR

State energy officials, with their goal of expanding wind energy in Massachusetts, are watching all of this closely, but have been careful to not step in to the Falmouth fray. Alicia Barton, head of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-public agency, would not say whether there were mistakes made in Falmouth, but she did say there were some lessons.

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Massachusetts Clean Energy Center commits to Kingston turbine flicker review
March 30, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has agreed to commission a shadow flicker study of Kingston's wind turbines. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center spokesman Catherine Williams confirmed there will be a study.

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Scituate says no to combining wind turbine studies
March 30, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger

The neighbors, who say the turbine is hurting their health, announced earlier this week they would hire an acoustical engineer to test the noise levels of the turbine. They want their study to be performed on the same nights as the study conducted by Tech Environmental, the firm picked by the health board to study the turbine.

Scituate: Advisory committee considers municipal wind turbine shut down proposal
March 28, 2013 by John Penny in WATD FM

"We are not sleeping. We are suffering the adverse effects of shadow flicker. One of the members of the board of health at the October meeting brought forth the issue that we suspend the operation of the industrial wind turbine during night time hours, until we can complete the study. ...we're imploring the town to suspend the operation," Kelly said.

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Neighbors to commission sound study on Scituate wind turbine
March 28, 2013 by Ruth Thompson in Wicked Local Scituate

A second study of the effects of the Scituate Wind turbine has been planned. ...the Community Group decided to conduct its own study “given the inadequate scope of the study supported by the board of health.”

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Two acoustical engineering firms place bids for Scituate turbine study
March 26, 2013 by Patrick Ronan in The Patriot Ledger

Two engineering firms have expressed interest in conducting a sound study that will determine whether Scituate's wind turbine is too loud by state standards.

Going inside Kingston's shadow-flicker zone
March 16, 2013 by Bradford Randall in Kingston Journal

Middle-school student Brian Reilly says he can't play basketball on Leland Road when the strobing effect from the Kingston Wind Independence (KWI) Turbine's shadow flicker is at full throttle. "I get a wicked bad headache so I have to go inside," Brian told the Journal as he stood on the front steps of his neighbors house.

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Board of Health takes no action on sound level meter request
March 9, 2013 by Kathryn Gallerani in Wicked Local Kingston

Board of Health Chairman Joe Casna said this week that the board has taken no vote, nor acted on any motion by any member of the board, to direct the health agent to acquire a loaner meter.

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