{"id":22266,"date":"2012-07-26T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=22266"},"modified":"2012-07-27T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:36:16","slug":"violated-in-massachusetts-wind-turbine-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/violated-in-massachusetts-wind-turbine-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Violated in Massachusetts (Wind Turbine Syndrome)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n—Preston McClanahan, Professor Emeritus, RI School of Design (7\/26\/12)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

To the Legislators and Representatives of the People of Massachusetts.<\/h3>\n

In November 1972 the citizens of Massachusetts approved at the ballot Article 97,\u00a0which became the 97th Amendment to the State Constitution. The amendment reads:<\/p>\n

The people shall have the right to clean air and water, freedom from excessive and\u00a0unnecessary noise, and the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic qualities of their\u00a0environment; and the protection of the people in their right to the conservation, development\u00a0and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water, air and other natural resources is\u00a0hereby declared to be a public purpose.<\/p>\n

“The general court shall have the power to enact legislation necessary or expedient to protect\u00a0such rights.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nPeople with Wind Turbine Syndrome in Massachusetts whose Constitutional rights are violated:<\/h3>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Sherman Derby, Hancock. .05 miles distant from turbine. “Sounds like a jet plane. We just can\u2019t sleep.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0John Methia, Fairhaven. 2,000 feet distant from turbine. “Sound is like a jet flyover that doesn\u2019t stop.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Karen Isherwood, Fairhaven. 1,500 feet distant. “I will have to abandon my home.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Louise Barteau, Fairhaven. 1,400 feet distant. “Pressure behind my eyes, confusion, and nausea.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Doreen Reilly, Kingston. 900 feet distant. “My Children are losing sleep.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Tim Dwyer, Kingston. 1,600 feet distant. “Headaches, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, ear pressure, vertigo.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Neil Anderson, Falmouth. 0.25 distant. “Headaches, head and ear pressure, ringing in ears, heart palpitations, increased blood pressure, loss of sleep. Completely wiped out financially. Forced from home, lawyers and doctors fees dissolve our life and retirement funds.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0John Ford, Falmouth. 2,300 feet distant. “Depressed, high blood pressure, headaches, earaches, anxiety, stress, vertigo.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Barry Funfar, Falmouth. 1,558 feet distant. “My doctor\u2019s advice is to move away from the noise.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Mary Zawoysky, Falmouth. 900 feet distant. “Infrasound bombards my home so I can\u2019t sleep.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb<\/span>\u00a0Nan Cook, Newburyport. 1,000feet distant. “The vibration comes through the walls in some houses.”<\/p>\n

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\nTwo Solutions to Wind Turbine Syndrome are:<\/h3>\n

(a) To discontinue the quest for energy from wind, realizing that wind is not a solution to our energy problem. Wind\u2019s low productivity and high expense in public tax monies, public health and environmental devastation are evident in the factual evidence from around the nation and the world. Those who still believe in wind energy are either uninformed, blind followers, have an ambitious career agenda, are motivated by profit alone and may have any combination of the above.<\/p>\n

(b) To legislate adequate setback distances of industrial wind turbines from occupied homes.<\/p>\n

The difficulty is that the loudest noise components are from the blades for which there is no effective noise control except distance, or shutting the turbines down. If the turbines are installed, the distance is set. At that point, complaints and civil lawsuits about noise impacts can be addressed only by shutting the turbines down. The developer has no recourse with the manufacturer and there are no engineering controls that I am aware of for this design class of wind turbine, the large three-blade elevated horizontal rotor design.” Robert Rand, Rand Acoustics, 65 Mere Point Road, Brunswick , ME.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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. —Preston McClanahan, Professor Emeritus, RI School of Design (7\/26\/12) . To the Legislators and Representatives of the People of Massachusetts. In November 1972 the citizens of Massachusetts approved at the ballot Article 97,\u00a0which became the 97th Amendment to the State Constitution. The amendment reads: The people shall have the right to clean air and water, freedom from excessive and\u00a0unnecessary noise, and the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic qualities of their\u00a0environment; and the protection of the people in their right to the conservation, development\u00a0and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water, air and other natural resources is\u00a0hereby declared to be a public purpose. “The general court shall have the power to enact legislation necessary or expedient to protect\u00a0such rights.” . People with Wind Turbine Syndrome in Massachusetts whose Constitutional rights are violated: \u00bb\u00a0Sherman Derby, Hancock. .05 miles distant from turbine. “Sounds like a jet plane. We just can\u2019t sleep.” \u00bb\u00a0John Methia, Fairhaven. 2,000 feet distant from turbine. “Sound is like a jet flyover that doesn\u2019t stop.” \u00bb\u00a0Karen Isherwood, Fairhaven. 1,500 feet distant. “I will have to abandon my home.” \u00bb\u00a0Louise Barteau, Fairhaven. 1,400 feet distant. “Pressure behind my eyes, confusion, and nausea.” \u00bb\u00a0Doreen Reilly, Kingston. 900 feet distant. “My Children are losing sleep.” \u00bb\u00a0Tim Dwyer, Kingston. 1,600 feet distant. “Headaches, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, ear pressure, vertigo.” \u00bb\u00a0Neil Anderson, Falmouth. 0.25 distant. “Headaches, head and ear pressure, ringing in ears, heart palpitations, increased blood pressure, loss of sleep. Completely wiped out financially. Forced from home, lawyers and doctors fees dissolve our life and retirement funds.” \u00bb\u00a0John Ford, Falmouth. 2,300 feet distant. “Depressed, high blood pressure, headaches, earaches, anxiety, stress, vertigo.” \u00bb\u00a0Barry Funfar, Falmouth. 1,558 feet distant. “My doctor\u2019s advice is to move away from the noise.” \u00bb\u00a0Mary Zawoysky, Falmouth. 900 feet distant. “Infrasound bombards my home so I can\u2019t sleep.” \u00bb\u00a0NanRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,166,16,170],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266"}],"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=22266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}