WIND TURBINE SAFTEY ? ?

Public Health Protection: Where Do You Draw the Line?

Future Generation Wind (FGW)

 *Four industrial sized wind turbines co-located on an Ocean Spray cranberry farm in Plymouth, MA as near as 1000 feet from residential property owners. 

On the heels of the states continuing examination of public safety and land-based industrial wind turbine siting (see Oct 31, 2013 investigation by the state’s Department of Public Utilities for the Siting of Land-Based Wind Energy Facilities and the MassDEP Wind Turbine and Noise Technical Advisory Group (WNTAG) who’s mission is to advise; protect public health, safety and well-being relative land-based industrial wind energy projects)FGW recently won approval from the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) school committee and the Duxbury Board of Selectmen to contract the sale of renewable energy credits (RECs) to reduce future school and municipal electricity costs.