"Evergreen Solar too noisy for its neighbors
Evergreen Solar, a clean-technology coup for the state when it opened last year in Devens, is making so much noise neighbors can’t sleep.
“It’s like a jet engine whir,’’ said Bill Carroll of Harvard. About 10 families have complained about noise from the 24-hour manufacturing plant over the past four months.
I'd be SO PISSED! All for a power source that can't match the necessary output our industrialized society demands, but hey, us bloggers were all wrong about ethanol, etc, so....
No one argues that the solar-panel plant, longer than three football fields, is violating noise regulations it had agreed to. But there is a battle over fixing it.
Evergreen Solar officials say the racket is coming from at least six sources - and that they are spending more than $1 million on repairs. The company says it needs to order custom-made equipment, the last of which will be installed in September.
Neighbors say that is not good enough. They want the company to shut down at night and question why the Devens Enterprise Commission, the permitting and enforcement agency at the former Fort Devens, has not made it do so. Commission officials say they must gather more data.
Translation: Commission officials flipped 'em the finger!
Yeah, to hell with the people; they only live there!
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