Monday, January 1, 2024

Falmouth Massachusetts HVDC Onshore Converter Station Vs Drinking Water

 

Falmouth HVDC Onshore Converter Station Vs Drinking Water
Wind Bylaw Definition Changes January 9, 2024 

Massachusetts 

Offshore wind companies are planning two six-acre 1200 megawatt high-voltage direct current converter stations. These converter stations will change offshore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) to high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) between 220,000 to 345,000 volts.  

The first HVDC converter station is Brayton Point near Fall River, Massachusetts the site of a former industrial 300-acre coal-burning plant now a brownfield site. The plant burned 10,000 pounds of coal a day from a nine-acre storage area.    

The second proposed 6-plus acre HVDC converter station is in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Falmouth comprises a residential community, multiple distinct villages, boating, and the Cape's most popular vacation destination.

The Town of Falmouth gets 50 percent of its water from a reservoir and 50 percent from wells. The high voltage direct current converter station is proposed within the Cape Cod Aquifer which provides 100 percent of the Cape's drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency under the Safe Drinking Water Act has designated the Cape water supply as a Sole Source Aquifer.  

The proposed onshore wind-buried cable route will extend from Falmouth Heights Beach through residential neighborhoods to the HVDC converter substation at either 396 Gifford Street or 486 Thomas B Landers Road.

These high-voltage converter stations are new to the United States. The station will produce acoustic noise and serious levels of radio frequency interference. In Massachusetts, a noise nuisance is defined as: "a substantial and unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of someone else's property."  

The town-owned wind turbines were deemed a noise nuisance by the courts and removed.

During lightning strikes, accidents, mechanical failures, and overloads concrete containment is required for the HVDC converter station to prevent contaminating the Cape Cod aquifer in case of a spill. Overheating of transformer cooling fluids presents a major hazard and risk of fires and explosions. 

(Note# Robots inspect HVDC converter stations )

In 2010 and 2012 there was a lot of political pressure to build megawatt wind turbines promising a revenue stream for 25 years. The Falmouth assistant town manager and wind turbine manager said: “We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we’re a large community and I think we can take on that risk.” 

Today again there is a lot of political pressure to reach the Massachusetts renewable energy goal by 2025. Offshore wind contractors want to partner with the town providing around only 1 (one) percent of the annual budget for twenty years. 

Falmouth on January 9, 2024, is redefining the wind energy system bylaws.

Can Cape Cod afford to risk the drinking water? 



Sunday, January 16, 2022

Falmouth Onshore Ocean Wind Cables EMF & Childhood Leukemia

Falmouth Onshore Ocean Wind Cables EMF & Childhood Leukemia

Massachusetts January 16, 2022 

National Library of Medicine  Vs  WHO & ICNIRP

EMF FROM HIGH VOLTAGE LINES CAUSE CANCER 

For over 40 years there have been a lot of scientific studies to determine whether EMF affects human health. Much of the scientific research examining the potential health effects of long-term EMF exposure has focused on childhood leukemia and other cancers.

Childhood leukemia and EMF: a review of the epidemiologic evidence    National Library of Medicine

    See Multiple Similar Articles at this link:    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16059924/

People who lived within 328 yards of a power line at any point up to age 15 years were three times more likely to develop cancer as an adult. Dr. David Carpenter, Dean of the School of Public Health (SUNY), believes that up to 30% of all childhood cancers come from exposure to high voltage power lines.

Next is Falmouth report :
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FALMOUTH HIGH VOLTAGE LINE "SELECTED" STUDIES ON EMF  

Ocean wind turbine companies use the most recent studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Commission of NonIonizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)  --But what about all the studies in the National Library of Medicine above?

Mayflower Wind Expected Magnetic  Field Levels vs. Health-Based Guideline

Magnetic Field (MF) Health-Based Guideline (ICNIRP) 2,000 mG

Directly above buried cables, in middle of beach 10 mG

Directly above buried cables, at edge of beach 10 mG

Directly above buried cable transition vault, in parking lot or street median 350 mG

Directly above buried cable duct bank, in roadway 500 mG

EMF Technical Memo, Prepared by Gradient. October 28, 2020 page 91 of 210 using a PDF reader 


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Notes :


1. Marthas Vineyard Cables To Falmouth for 17,000 people compared to  Ocean  Wind cables 600,000 people. 
Ocean cables 1200 megawatt 30 times more power equal to double the output of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant (680 MW) 

2. EMF in BOEM report above Massachusetts guidelines above cables.

3. Why should a residential community be subjected to any at all increase in EMF. 
Where else in the US is much power been placed through an existing residential neighborhood? 

4. Cost saving through Falmouth rather than ocean cables to Fall River or Canal Power Plant.

5 Falmouth Wind Turbine bylaw 240-166    Safety & Health. 

6. Host Community Agreement over 20 years only a fraction of yearly 145 million budget ( beads). 

7. Residential value of homes along the route of 1200 megawatt cables up to 345,00 volts.

8 Trafic congestion during construction business losses.

9. Mitigation of EMF electric magnetic fields = shielded cable inside stainless steel conduit with SF gas 
(sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆), the potent greenhouse gas commonly used to insulate and protect medium- and high-voltage electric transmission and distribution infrastructure)

10. When it comes to any type of EMF radiation, including magnetic radiation from a powerline, the more distance, the safer.
The possibility that the electric power transmission and distribution system could pose a risk for childhood cancer has been a concern for several decades. There are studies both pro and con. Why take the gamble?



Friday, February 6, 2015

Mass Media All Have One Thing In Common With Brian Williams NBC

Massachusetts News Media & Brian Williams ( NBC ) They all have one thing in common they all Lie.
 The Massachusetts news media has been covering up the financial fiasco at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, Charlestown wind blade testing facility and the Evergreen Solar fiasco. The New Bedford ocean port will eclipse all other wind turbine projects wasting valuable infrastructure money and placing Massachusetts 765 million in Debt 

Adolf Hitler had an agenda.The entire country of Germany followed the teachings of what became known as the big lie. The Germans became victims of the big lie because they never believed their government would fabricate colossal untruths and continue to distort the truth over a ten year period. At the end of the big lie residents living around concentration camps were asked why they did nothing to stop it ? The population was so convinced in the big lie they said they didn’t know anything about it. These people never noticed 6 million of their neighbors were missing. The Massachusetts commercial wind initiative is the same big lie.

Massachusetts journalist and media outlets continue to manufacture stories that back the agenda of the Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform of a war on fossil fuels. Every week or two there is a story by some professor at the state backed and financed University of Massachusetts about climate change and the war on fossil fuels. The news media always puts the credentials of the professor or the latest hack that wrote another war of fossil fuels. The newspaper will never tell you the hack is getting paid 6 figures and your financing the report with your own tax dollars.

Ten years ago Massachusetts bought and sold two German commercial Vestas V 82 wind turbines in the megawatt class of wind turbines to the Falmouth area the result was a noise described as torture and illegal property takings.They may as well have taken these people and put them on a train and sent them to a concentration camp.

Massachusetts has a renewable energy agenda of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. The state lacks the space in the coastal regions to place commercial megawatt wind turbines because the areas are already heavily populated. The only recourse is to lie to the general population and continue to lie that the growing minority of people should lose their health and property rights for the majority. History will show our local news media continues the lies today.

It was determined years ago that the state of Massachusetts could not afford to compensate the owners of the residential properties around the future placement of these commercial wind turbines because of the enormous expense of taking land by eminent domain. The decision was made by the political party to call an actual all out war on fossil fuels and just go forward with commercial wind turbine projects , disregard health and property rights, manufacture fake state health reports with appointed wind turbine advocates causing residents to spend their life savings to protect their homes. The state health agencies and protection agencies are filled with appointed officials who back the agenda and not the individual citizens rights.

Now comes the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. The news media has reported the port is complete and ready to go. This is so far from the truth the news media should be asking state and federal authorities for an investigation into the spending of 124 million on the project and now going into phase two. The same lies that were told with the land based wind turbines are now being told over and over again about the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal.

During the 1950s the United States local governments became victims of the Klu Klux Klan. The Klan was able to convince local and state governments to enforce laws against black citizens and ignore the same laws against white citizens. The local and state courts became so corrupt that special federal legislation had to be passed to stop the states from taking the rights of the minority for the general good of the majority. History shows us that both the news media and courts went along to get along with the hate groups in much the same way today the news media is going along with taking citizens health, property rights and infrastructure tax money used to build the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal

Green journalism, or the green press, is a type of journalism that presents a political agenda taking the health, property and valuable tax infrastructure resources to build commercial wind turbines.

The term green journalism comes from the father of the Massachusetts green energy movement former convicted Speaker of the Massachusetts House Sal DiMasi serving eight years in jail for corruption. 
The Massachusetts green journalism has used lurid features and sensationalized climate change to attract readers. The journalism exaggerates, distorts and omits any bad news about your health, property takings for the greater good and your money for the agenda.They took your health and property rights with land based wind turbines & now your money with ocean wind turbines

The News Media ( your local news ) has bought into the Massachusetts renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. The Green Agenda has caused massive health problems and illegal property takings all over Massachusetts with the poor placement of land based wind turbines.Your local news editors now support spending every dime you have on renewable energy projects. The most expensive is ocean wind turbines. The editors of these news organizations have even said there should be no limit to spending your money on the “war of fossil fuels.”

The news media has always known former Governor Patrick was on the board of Ameriquest that sold over $45 billion in sub-prime loans to Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street firms and led to the massive financial failures, lost jobs and high unemployment. The news media today is faced with the past policies of a failed renewable energy agenda led by former Governor Patrick another massive failure only this time using commercial wind turbines as the weapon of choice.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center changed its name from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative after the purchase and sale of two Vestas V 82 commercial 1.65 megawatt turbines sold to the Falmouth area in 2010. The result has been an admission by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center it placed wind turbines Ad Hoc prior to 2013.

The state semi quasi agency changed its name to avoid the embarrassment over the purchase and sale of the turbines to Falmouth resulting in making people sick from lack of sleep from a noise described as torture. Thousands of certified written noise complaints have been received statewide. The news media would have you believe thousands of people are in some kind of mass hysteria.

The poor placement of land based commercial wind turbines taking the health and property rights of citizens has finally entered the court systems and public opinion has swayed against the poor placement of commercial wind turbines. The legal actions against the poor placement of commercial wind turbines in residential neighborhoods is taking place despite the news media portraying abutters to commercial wind turbines as loud obnoxious not in my back yard out of control residents.

Today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has been changing the name of the New Bedford ocean wind turbine port in an effort to hide the misuse of valuable state infrastructure funds and resources. 
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will no longer comment on the Cape Wind lease at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. The MassCEC will no longer comment on a completion date and how much more the project will cost going into “phase two.”

The news media is has made the choice not to print any further news about the massive financial fiasco.You are not going to get any bad news from any Massachusetts news outlets.

Journalistic integrity should not even be brought into question there is none.

Journalist have allowed themselves to become part of an essential act of corruption. The news media themselves have become partners with corporations and political groups. 

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal needs to be exposed and brought to the light of day. The news media outlets aren’t going to tell you they themselves owned some of the toxic property at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal maybe this is why they won’t tell the public what is going on at the construction site. 
The news media needs to take credit for the lack of investigative journalism and the failure to inform the public over the massive renewable energy failures in Massachusetts.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Wellfleet Beware of Green Communities Act

 
Wellfleet Massachusetts
 
 

Wellfleet & Green Community Act - Beware Devil In Details

Wellfleet- Beware Devil In Green Communities Act
Acushnet Police Station - One million over budget - You be the judge.  
1.) In early December of 2012 the Town of Acushnet, Massachusetts approved 5.2 million dollars for a brand new police station.  
2.)  In early December of 2013 the following year the Town of Acushnet, Massachusetts received $ 154,225.00. That's one hundred and fifty four thousand dollars to become a Massachusetts Green Communities Designations Reach Community.  
3.) In February of 2014 the Acushnet Police Department project came in one million over the estimate.  
Today the Town of Acushnet , Massachusetts is investigating why the bid increased over one million dollars....  
Folks do they really need an investigation or was signing the GREEN COMMUNITY DESIGNATIONS REACH a fatal mistake for the taxpayers.    
1.)   http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121211/NEWS/212110320   Acushnet OKs $5.2M for new police station
    PAUL GATELY CONTRIBUTING WRITER December 11, 2012 12:00 AM
"ACUSHNET — Police Chief Michael Alves and his department received an early Christmas present Monday night, and it wasn't a stocking stuffer.
Voters throughout a rainy day trekked to the polls and approved a $5.2 million request to finance a new police station construction project at 60 Middle Road. The capital debt-exclusion request to override Proposition 2½ prevailed in each of three precincts for a 536-451 outcome.
2.)


  GREEN COMMUNITY DESIGNATIONS REACH
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE   http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/doer/green-communities/grant-program/map-summary-green-communities.pdf   Acushnet , Masachusetts   $ 154,225.00    12/18/ 2013    
3.)   http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140228/PUB01/402270367/0/SEARCH  
Police station bids $1 million more than expected
By Peggy Aulisio Editor February 28, 2014 12:00 AM "ACUSHNET — It will be back to the drawing board for Acushnet as far as getting bids for the new police station.
Town Administrator Alan Coutinho said Monday the bids from general contractors were opened and came in an average of $1 million more than budgeted."
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140227/NEWS/402270382/0/SEARCH

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Wind Turbines Make People Sick-Infra Sound


Peaceful civil disobedience does not threaten the safety of anyone.And, should people in a free society feel the necessity to make such a statement do it !
 
The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals. It forbids the creation of second-class citizens. Yet, in the mad rush to implement green energy policies, the state of Massachusetts is creating a second class group of citizens through the poor siting of commercial wind turbines.
 
The Falmouth Select Board has stepped up to the plate for all the citizens of  Massachusetts. Falmouth spent almost $400,000.00 on talks between abutters and public officials and twenty six meetings.
 
The installation of commercial megawatt turbines shows compellingly that the symptoms and illnesses called Wind Turbine Syndrome and Vibro-Acoustic Disease are caused by exposure. This is the low frequency noise from the large megawatt turbines in residential locations.
 
The state noise regulations were written in the 1970s long before wind turbine installations. The Massachusetts Model Bylaws written in the 1990s by the state of Massachusetts were written for 660 Killowatt turbines. In the last few  years the large megawatt turbines have been sited near residential homes.
 
Kingston Massachusetts
 
Scituate:
 
Fairhaven:

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

AT A GLANCE: Gulf oil spill developments | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News

AT A GLANCE: Gulf oil spill developments News for Dallas, Texas Dallas Morning News Texas Regional News

Going to any beach with oil on it is like chewing razor blades! The oil is loaded with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) . The introduction of chemical dispersants increases the amount of carcinogens in the oil. The federal government should be passing out Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) . They are designed to provide both workers and emergency personnel or people on the beach picking up or walking on tar balls with the proper procedures for handling hazardous material. The oil is a toxic material. Some people who have breathed or touched mixtures of PAHs and other chemicals for long periods of time have developed cancer. Some PAHs have caused cancer in laboratory animals when they breathed air containing them (lung cancer), ingested them in food (stomach cancer), or had them applied to their skin (skin cancer).We know this from an oil spill eight years ago in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. On April 27, 2003, eight years ago the Bouchard Barge B-120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 100,000 gallons of No. 6 oil. The oil is known to have affected an estimated 90 miles of shoreline, numerous bird species, and recreational use of the bay, such as shell fishing and boating.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

GULF OIL SPILL | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Energy | Dallas Business News

GULF OIL SPILL News for Dallas, Texas Dallas Morning News Energy Dallas Business News

TIME TO WARN THE PUBLIC ABOUT TOXIC OIL

Going to any beach with oil on it is like chewing razor blades! The oil is loaded with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) . The introduction of chemical dispersants increases the amount of carcinogens in the oil. The federal government should be passing out Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) . They are designed to provide both workers and emergency personnel or people on the beach picking up or walking on tar balls with the proper procedures for handling hazardous material. The oil is a toxic material. Some people who have breathed or touched mixtures of PAHs and other chemicals for long periods of time have developed cancer. Some PAHs have caused cancer in laboratory animals when they breathed air containing them (lung cancer), ingested them in food (stomach cancer), or had them applied to their skin (skin cancer).We know this from an oil spill eight years ago in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. On April 27, 2003, eight years ago the Bouchard Barge B-120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 100,000 gallons of No. 6 oil. The oil is known to have affected an estimated 90 miles of shoreline, numerous bird species, and recreational use of the bay, such as shell fishing and boating.