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(NECN) - A week ago, "Cape Wind", the wind energy project aimed at Nantucket Sound seemed likely to breeze to victory in the political battle over permits. But there's a last minute hitch that could spell trouble for the project. As reported in the Boston Globe, "The Coast Guard, at the urging of a Minnesota congressman, will delay by one month its recommendation on Cape Wind.
CPN's "The Vision" series provide factual information about wind power and other renewable energy sources. Episode 1 discusses the Cape Wind Project. Episode 2 discusses land wind turbines on Cape Cod. Episode 3 focuses on European and northeast U.S. coastal wind projects. The shows were recorded at and broadcast by Cape Cod Community Media Center (Channel 17) in Yarmouth, MA, and also aired on other Cape Cod Public Access TV stations. Episode 1&2 , Episode 3 Chapter 1 , Episode 3 Chapter 2
Dozens of wind turbines could sprout within sight of the Massachusetts shoreline under a first-of-its-kind state blueprint with the promise of generating both electricity and controversy.....
So, the town of Barnstable and the Cape Cod Commission, already rebuffed in court, are using our tax dollars to sue Cape Wind again, even though 74 percent of Cape and Islands residents and 86 percent of Massachusetts residents support the project!
To all part-time residents and visitors, the recent awful weather pattern is actually quite common during the fall and winter, with a slight variation being that the rain we've seen is often snow.....
Massachusetts will lose $588,033 of annual new revenue ($14.7 million during Cape Wind’s 25-year lease) if opponents’ plan to promote Blue H USA’s unproven deepwater floating-platform scheme stops Cape Wind. Cape and Islands towns would lose their portion of Cape Wind’s payments.....
A group opposing Cape Wind has long floated the unsupportable premise that electricity cost could double with Cape Wind in operation. Lately, they have misused figures from an appendix to the US Dept. of the Interior "Cape Wind Energy Project, Final Environmental Impact Statement, January 2009" to try in vain to prove their point.....