FALMOUTH — Town meeting voted down a warrant article Tuesday night that would have authorized the spending of $14 million to remove two town-owned turbines.Continue reading at CapeCodOnline.com:
State Rep. David Vieira, R-Falmouth, who moderated town meeting, called the initial voice vote in favor of the article, but when the votes were counted after a challenge, the measure was defeated, 125 to 72. It required a two-thirds majority to pass.
Low boos and hisses could be heard soon after the vote as people filed out of the Lawrence School auditorium at about 11:15 p.m.
"I don't know what to say," Malcolm Donald, an abutter and outspoken opponent of Falmouth's municipal turbines, said moments after the vote. "It's another bump in the road. The party's not over, and we're going to move on."
The defeat represents a huge blow to some neighbors of the 1.65-megawatt turbines on Blacksmith Shop Road. Neighbors, who say the turbines cause headaches, tinnitus and other health problems, have been trying to have the turbines removed since Wind 1 started spinning about three years ago.
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