{"id":17070,"date":"2011-09-15T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2012-01-25T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T13:47:39","slug":"faking-it-in-falmouth-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/faking-it-in-falmouth-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Faking it in Falmouth?  (Mass.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fat-man-497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17072\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fat-man-497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fat-man-497.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fat-man-497-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Faking it in Falmouth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014<a onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/its-awfully-difficult-to-garden-from-my-basement-massachusetts\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/its-awfully-difficult-to-garden-from-my-basement-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark J Cool<\/a>, Falmouth, MA<\/p>\n<p>The wind turbine issue in Falmouth is pitting <em>community conscience<\/em> against <em>regulatory compliance<\/em>. \u00a0Being \u201cwithin compliance\u201d obviously doesn\u2019t mean physical harms don\u2019t, or won\u2019t, exist.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) 40-decibel noise guideline, the wind turbine manufacturer\u2019s recommended setback distance, the specific town emergency and fire contingency plan criteria, and the 23-mph turbine shut-off restriction&#8212;all have been, with some exceptions, met or exceeded.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a title=\"For example ...\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/what-do-you-say-when-you-find-him-hanging-on-the-turbine-fence-with-a-self-inflicted-357-round-in-his-head-massachusetts\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/what-do-you-say-when-you-find-him-hanging-on-the-turbine-fence-with-a-self-inflicted-357-round-in-his-head-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\">complaints by neighbors continue<\/a>\u00a0and will indeed be exacerbated as seasonal winds change, and Wind Turbine II comes online. \u00a0Very revealing of current regulation effectiveness, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Is it a conspiracy? \u00a0Hatched by those anti-wind neighbors to thwart the good intentions of the Energy Committee\u2019s \u201cneed for green\u201d or municipal \u201cneed for green\u201d energy cost savings? \u00a0Possibly&#8212;that is, if the neighbors hadn\u2019t been supportive of the town\u2019s wind project concept in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Oops!<\/p>\n<p>Is it that these scoundrels are feeding off Internet exaggerations and fantasies of &#8220;Wind Turbine Syndrome&#8221; and are just plain lying about symptoms and lost sleep? \u00a0Maybe&#8212;hat is, if you believe that these neighbors (who were mostly strangers to one another before the turbines) just happened simultaneously to\u00a0suffer from a range of identical physiological symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Combine their fabrications with their brazen willingness to spend money on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>sue Falmouth<\/li>\n<li>sound-proof windows<\/li>\n<li>pay for hotel rooms to allegedly get a few nights of sleep<\/li>\n<li>attend wind turbine noise &amp; health seminars and conferences to become more informed<\/li>\n<li>pay for acoustic consultant testing, to acquire a third-party perspective<\/li>\n<li>pay for numerous doctor appointments, prescriptions and medical aids offering temporary relief from their fabricated, turbine-caused ailments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The real facts are: \u00a0The Falmouth town boards (several of them) have been offered numerous reports from credible sources, institutions, acousticians and medical clinicians from around the country and indeed the world, all demonstrating the plausibility that industrial wind turbines negatively affect human wellness if poorly sited. \u00a0Most importantly, the Falmouth town boards have ready access to us sufferers, as well as the offer of personal experiences and symptoms as examinable evidence from neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Would these neighbors be willing to be examined to prove their claims? \u00a0<em>Has anyone asked these human guinea pigs<\/em>? \u00a0Why wouldn\u2019t Town Hall join with medical experts and conduct a study of actual health outcomes (epidemiology), using medical science to directly find actual health risks from real-world (Falmouth) turbine exposures?<\/p>\n<p>Instead of practicality and common sense, Town Hall is persuaded by conclusions from a Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitute biologist (health board member charged with a literary review), an acoustics firm (paid by the town), the Mass DEP and the town Energy Committee (minions of Govenor Patrick). \u00a0These advisors (amongst others), with the applause of local newspaper editors, would have you believe &#8220;they&#8221; should hold more authority on the subject than the studies and reports by actual medical doctors and medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s like asking your auto mechanic to diagnose whether that lump on your neck is cancer or not. \u00a0Absurd?<\/p>\n<p>Honest-to-God medical evaluations, specifically directed at accessing physiological impact from wind turbines, could certainly answer more questions than Town Hall\u2019s craven reliance on regulatory compliance, <a onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/a-disgrace-to-science-and-public-health-massachusetts\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/a-disgrace-to-science-and-public-health-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\">ill-equipped citizen volunteers<\/a>, or state agencies marching to the drumbeat of the governor\u2019s \u201cgreen\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Falmouth wind turbine issue is a matter of <em>conscience<\/em>, not <em>compliance<\/em>! \u00a0I implore town members to force a full epidemiological study. \u00a0The town upheaval demands it, and without it the community fracture is guaranteed to widen. \u00a0And, for God&#8217;s sake, please vote to suspend turbine operations until medical questions are answered&#8212;rather than continue this Town Hall buffoonery and slavish attachment to ineffectual regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, you believe Town Hall&#8212;and believe your neighbors are liars.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mark-Cool-360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17092\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mark-Cool-360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mark-Cool-360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Mark-Cool-360-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Mark &amp; Annie Cool. \u00a0Mark is an air traffic controller. \u00a0Annie is a realtor in Falmouth, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faking it in Falmouth \u00b7 \u2014Mark J Cool, Falmouth, MA The wind turbine issue in Falmouth is pitting community conscience against regulatory compliance. \u00a0Being \u201cwithin compliance\u201d obviously doesn\u2019t mean physical harms don\u2019t, or won\u2019t, exist. The Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) 40-decibel noise guideline, the wind turbine manufacturer\u2019s recommended setback distance, the specific town emergency and fire contingency plan criteria, and the 23-mph turbine shut-off restriction&#8212;all have been, with some exceptions, met or exceeded. Yet complaints by neighbors continue\u00a0and will indeed be exacerbated as seasonal winds change, and Wind Turbine II comes online. \u00a0Very revealing of current regulation effectiveness, perhaps? Is it a conspiracy? \u00a0Hatched by those anti-wind neighbors to thwart the good intentions of the Energy Committee\u2019s \u201cneed for green\u201d or municipal \u201cneed for green\u201d energy cost savings? \u00a0Possibly&#8212;that is, if the neighbors hadn\u2019t been supportive of the town\u2019s wind project concept in the first place. Oops! Is it that these scoundrels are feeding off Internet exaggerations and fantasies of &#8220;Wind Turbine Syndrome&#8221; and are just plain lying about symptoms and lost sleep? \u00a0Maybe&#8212;hat is, if you believe that these neighbors (who were mostly strangers to one another before the turbines) just happened simultaneously to\u00a0suffer from a range of identical physiological symptoms. Combine their fabrications with their brazen willingness to spend money on the following: sue Falmouth sound-proof windows pay for hotel rooms to allegedly get a few nights of sleep attend wind turbine noise &amp; health seminars and conferences to become more informed pay for acoustic consultant testing, to acquire a third-party perspective pay for numerous doctor appointments, prescriptions and medical aids offering temporary relief from their fabricated, turbine-caused ailments The real facts are: \u00a0The Falmouth town boards (several of them) have been offered numerous reports from credible sources, institutions, acousticians and medical clinicians from around the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/faking-it-in-falmouth-mass\/#rdmore\" >Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}