SouthCoast emPOWERment Compact, Inc.

SouthCoast emPOWERment Compact, Inc.

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Cape Wind Oral Testimony

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COMMENTERS VIA ORAL TESTIMONY
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185 SouthCoast emPOWERment Compact, Inc.

Electric rates and wind turbines

SouthCoast emPOWERment Compact

The compact seeks to aggregate the municipalities of Acusnet,Dartmouth,Fairhaven,Ma rion,Mattapoisett and Westport and the residents and businessess for negotiating the best rates for the supply of electricity.

MGL 164-Section 134

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The exact name of the Nonprofit Corporation: SOUTHCOAST EMPOWERMENT COMPACT INC.
Entity Type: Nonprofit Corporation

Identification Number: 000803715

Date of Organization in Massachusetts: 11/05/2001

Current Fiscal Month / Day: 06 / 30

The location of its principal office in Massachusetts: No. and Street: 6 CANNON ST.
P.O. BOX 653
City or Town: MATTAPOISETT State: MA Zip: 02739 Country: USA

If the business entity is organized wholly to do business outside Massachusetts, the location of that office: No. and Street:

City or Town: State: Zip: Country:

The name and address of the Resident Agent: Name:
No. and Street:

City or Town: State: Zip: Country:

The officers and all of the directors of the corporation:

Title Individual Name
First, Middle, Last, Suffix Address (no PO Box)
Address, City or Town, State, Zip Code Expiration
of Term
PRESIDENT JOSEPH L SLATTERY 6 CANNON ST.
MATTAPOISETT, MA 02739 USA
P.O. BOX 653
MATTAPOISETT, MA 02739 USA N/A
TREASURER ALAN G. COUTINHO 747 MIDDLE RD.
ACUSHNET, MA 02743 USA
747 MIDDLE RD.
ACUSHNET, MA 02743 USA N/A
CLERK BRIAN K. BOWCOCK 51 GREEN ST.
FAIRHAVEN, MA 02719 USA
51 GREEN ST.
FAIRHAVEN, MA 02719 USA N/A
DIRECTOR RICHARD D. CUTLER 42 WOODLAND RD.
ROCHESTER, MA 02770 USA
42 WOODLAND RD.

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Jos Beurskens is manager of research groups at ECN, active in wind energy... Source: jxj.base10.ws...[jxj.base10.ws ]

[Microsoft Word]- Jos Beurskens is president of the Netherlands Wind Energy Association... Source: www.newenergy.org ...[www.newenergy.org]

Jos Beurskens is manager van de programma-unit Windenergie bij het Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland en werkt nauw samen met het onderzoeksinstituut... Source: www.scisa.nl ...[www.scisa.nl]

Jos Beurskens is president of the Netherlands Wind Energy Association, member of the executive committee of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and member of the Scientific Advisory Board... Source: www.newenergy.org [www.newenergy.org

Joseph L. Slattery. Southcoast emPOWERment Compact Inc. P.O. Box 653. Mattapoisett, MA ...[ ESS - www.boemre.gov ]

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Your View: State's wind report is poor excuse for a 'health impact study'
By Louise Barteau
Louise Barteau lives in Fairhaven.
January 21, 2012 12:00 AM
I have wasted a perfectly good day reading the Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel January 2012, prepared for the state departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health.
I have to start by questioning the very title. Only two of the members have any experience with wind turbines. The two (Manwell and Mills) that have wind experience are both pre-disposed to find against adverse health effects. Mills has already testified in 2009 that according to previous literature searches she performed while employed as a public health official of Maine, she found no link to adverse health affects with turbines. So we know she didn't have an open mind.
Manwell runs the UMass Amherst Wind Energy Center, which studies and promotes the use of wind turbines. So he is also pre-disposed to find no problems with wind turbines. His academic reputation and funding depend on the wind industry and funding from the state. Hmm.
We all know what this is called: Stacking the deck.
I did notice with interest that the panel included in the bibliography the Philips article from the August 2011 Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. I know they must not have had too much time to read it, because the Philips article argues convincingly that the omission of thousands upon thousands of adverse event reports from citizens affected by proximity to wind turbines is not only indefensible scientifically but dishonest and immoral to boot.
Adverse event reporting is how new diseases become identified. So ruling out first-hand self-reported health, social and economic events that occur after the arrival of wind turbines in communities across the world, basically prevents any true investigation from taking place.
You notice I use the term "true" investigation. That's the next problem. No one in most local governments and certainly not the wind developers have created and carried out such a study, despite problems being reported by ordinary citizens all over the world.
So if I understand this whole situation correctly, the report from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts did not look at or include adverse citizen reports of symptoms from Falmouth, and then found no evidence of adverse health effects because they didn't include the data that would form the basis of any claim to the contrary.
That doesn't seem right to me.
What if we had collected the evidence from Falmouth residents? Why didn't the panel gather the event reports, interview and perform tests such as EKG's and EEG's from Falmouth residents while they were experiencing symptoms in their homes. Those results could have been correlated with the results of turbine and wind speeds, noise levels and infrasound data. That's what the citizens of Falmouth asked for from the town, the developers and the state.
Instead, the state picked a secret panel that met a total of three times. They only reviewed literature and further seem to have been pretty selective about what they reviewed. The Philips article is just one of the articles in the August 2011 Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, yet the entire issue is devoted to the problems with wind turbines, noise (including infrasound), public health and social justice. But for some reason they only looked at the Philips article. Why not also look at the articles written by Bronzaft, Krogh, Shain or Thorne?
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Letter: Comments at forum were reprehensible

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Comments at forum were reprehensible

I was unable to attend the meeting Tuesday night because of a knee injury, but I did watch the proceedings on television.

I realize the hostile crowd presented a difficult challenge to moderate, however, I was appalled by the Curt Devlin presentation. Not only is Mr. Devlin not qualified by education, experience or knowledge to present scientific discourse on infrasound, but I was repulsed by his statement that the turbine project is a human experiment, and he linked the turbine project to human experiments conducted by German Nazi physicians during the atrocities of World War II.

He also linked the turbine project to the Nurenberg trials of 1947-48.What next? Charge the people involved with crimes against humanity? The group of Windwise individuals are fanatical and irrational, and every person who has any sense of humanity would reject the comments made by Devlin and reject this group as a fanatical fringe group of individuals who have become irrational, but may also have become dangerous.

I do not feel we can draw enough focus on the reprehensible statements made linking this project to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. These comments had no business in the discussion we were having regarding wind turbine safety and health concerns.

I urge every individual to publicly reject these comments.

Brian K. Bowcock

Selectman, Town of Fairhaven

Check out the officers of the so-called Nonprofit Corporation: "SOUTHCOAST EMPOWERMENT COMPACT INC."
The officers and all of the directors of the corporation:

Title Individual Name
First, Middle, Last, Suffix Address (no PO Box)
Address, City or Town, State, Zip Code Expiration
of Term
PRESIDENT JOSEPH L SLATTERY 6 CANNON ST.
MATTAPOISETT, MA 02739 USA
P.O. BOX 653
MATTAPOISETT, MA 02739 USA N/A
TREASURER ALAN G. COUTINHO 747 MIDDLE RD.
ACUSHNET, MA 02743 USA
747 MIDDLE RD.
ACUSHNET, MA 02743 USA N/A
CLERK BRIAN K. BOWCOCK 51 GREEN ST.
FAIRHAVEN, MA 02719 USA
51 GREEN ST.
FAIRHAVEN, MA 02719 USA N/A
DIRECTOR RICHARD D. CUTLER 42 WOODLAND RD.
ROCHESTER, MA 02770 USA
42 WOODLAND RD.