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Mass Audubon Supports Cape Wind Energy Project

June 25, 2010 - Mass Audubon Press Release

Following nearly a decade of independent research and review, Mass Audubon has concluded that the Cape Wind Energy Project (Cape Wind) will not pose an ecologically significant threat to the birds and associated marine habitat of Horseshoe Shoal and Nantucket Sound.....

Clean Power Now to Barnstable Town Council: enough is enough

May 21, 2010 - Cape Cod Today

It took about 30 minutes to get Thursday's meeting of the Barnstable Town Council started, while a ninth councilor was found to make a quorum. But once Councilor Tom Rugo appeared, fireworks exploded in the public comment period.

The spark was the wind farm, which, it appears, many in Barnstable are still fighting.....

Beyond Business as Usual: Investigating a Future without Coal and Nuclear Power in the U.S.

May, 2010 - CSI/Synapse

A new ground-breaking report from CSI and Synapse has clearly demonstrated that our energy future can be free of Coal and Nuclear Power. The report is a game changer, one that will immediately affect the conversations and business-as-usual approach surrounding current energy and climate legislation efforts.....

FAA: Cape Wind won’t pose aviation hazard

May 17, 2010 - Boston Herald

Cape Wind Associates won a victory today when federal regulators ruled that its proposed giant wind turbines on Nantucket Sound wouldn’t pose a hazard to area aviation.....

Clean Power Now Hits Lawsuits by Big Coal Funded Opposition to Cape Wind

May 14, 2010 - Cape Cod Today

According to a statement released today by the 14,000 member grassroots organization Clean Power Now (CPN), the opponents of America's first offshore wind farm are threatening even more lawsuits to delay the Cape Wind project.....

4 Energy Technologies That Could Replace Oil

May 7, 2010 - The Daily Green

Every time there's an energy-related disaster, it boosts the prospects for clean alternatives. Last month's devastating explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine killed 29, and got people wondering if all that ancient coal shouldn't just be left in the ground.....

Utility agrees to buy power from Cape Wind

May 7, 2010 - Associated Press

The utility National Grid has agreed to buy electricity from the nation's first wind farm, planned off the coast of Cape Cod.....

Offshore windfarms to help pay for air defence

May 3, 2010 - The Guardian UK

A pioneering deal under which the wind farm industry will spend at least £16m on advanced radar defence systems has cleared the way for a significant boost in the UK's supply of renewable energy.....

AWEA applauds Secretary Salazar for approving the Cape Wind Power Project

April 30, 2010 - REVE

AWEA applauds Secretary Salazar for approving the Cape Wind project. Such forward-thinking decisions are necessary for the U.S. to realize the many environmental and economic benefits of offshore wind energy.....

Cape Win?

April 30, 2010 - Barnstable Patriot

Calling Nantucket Sound "long a working landscape," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that he'll let Cape Wind erect 130 wind turbines there.....

A Wind Farm Rises Off Shore

April 29, 2010 - GoodCleanTech News

A proposed wind farm called Cape Wind will move ahead, the U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar said, eventually placing 130 wind turbine towers in Horseshoe Shoals, a shallow area in Nantucket Sound.....

Offshore Wind Scores a Crucial Victory

April 29, 2010 - Reuters

Cape Wind, the proposed offshore wind farm near Cape Cod, Massachusetts has won final regulatory approval from the Obama administration.....

Nation's first offshore wind farm approved for Nantucket Sound

April 28, 2010 - CNN

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, signing off on a project that has bitterly divided Cape Cod over the last nine years.....

Finally! US’ First Offshore Wind Farm OK’d by Interior

April 28, 2010 - Ecopolitology

In what might signal the end of a nine-year long battle for the first offshore wind farm in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced the approval of the 468-megawatt Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.....

Cape Wind reaction: 'America needs all the clean electrons it can get'

April 28, 2010 - Boston Globe

Here are some of the reactions to the announcement today of Interior Department approval of the Cape Wind project, the nation's first offshore wind farm:

Cape Wind wins nine year battle against the NIMBYs

April 28, 2010 - Cape Cod Today

In 1775, a full year before the signing of America's Declaration of Independence, Cape Cod sea captains obtained letters of marque from the Continental Congress to turn their schooners into privateers to harass the British Navy and started the first American Revolution......

Government approves first U.S. offshore wind farm

April 28, 2010 - Houston Chronicle/Newswatch Energy

After nine years of talks, the nation's first offshore wind project to be built off the coast of Massachusetts was finally approved today, setting what some say is a precedent for more renewable energy in the future......

Reaction to Cape Wind decision

April 28, 2010 - Boston Herald

Here’s a collection of comments reacting to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision today to approve the Cape Wind project......

Cape Wind project gets key approval

April 28, 2010 - Wicked Local

A thousand new jobs and the benefits of stable electric rates will flow to Cape Cod, according to Gov. Deval Patrick, thanks to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s approval of the Cape Wind project......

Salazar approves Cape Wind project

April 28, 2010 - Barnstable Patriot

Calling Nantucket Sound "long a working landscape," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he'll let Cape Wind erect 130 wind turbines there.....

Light Turns Green for America's First Offshore Wind Farm

April 28, 2010 - Environment News Service

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved Cape Wind, America's first offshore wind farm on 25-square-miles of federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast.....

Nation's first offshore wind farm approved for Nantucket Sound

April 28, 2010 - KPAX News

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, signing off on a project that has bitterly divided Cape Cod over the last nine years.....

US approves first offshore wind farm

April 28, 2010 - Yahoo News

The first US offshore wind farm project won government approval Wednesday after nearly a decade of battles involving environmentalists, Indian tribes and others.....

Light Turns Green for America's First Offshore Wind Farm

April 28, 2010 - Eco Factory

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved Cape Wind, America's first offshore wind farm on 25-square-miles of federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast.....

Cape Wind/How the Grassroots Won -'In the Trenches' Comment on Salazar Decision

April 28, 2010 - Salem News

The decision today by U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar to allow the Cape Wind project to move ahead means more Massachusetts jobs and is a real demonstration of what can happen when concerned citizens are mobilized through effective grassroots organization, according to the heads of the Civil Society Institute and Clean Power Now.....

Cape Wind reaction: 'America needs all the clean electrons it can get'

April 28, 2010 - Boston Globe

Here are some of the reactions to the announcement today of Interior Department approval of the Cape Wind project, the nation's first offshore wind farm.....

Secretary Salazar Announces Approval of Cape Wind Energy Project on Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts

April 28, 2010 - DOI News

BOSTON, Mass – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved the Cape Wind renewable energy project on federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound, but will require the developer of the $1 billion wind farm to agree to additional binding measures to minimize the potential adverse impacts of construction and operation of the facility.....

Cape Wind decision expected today

April 28, 2010 - Boston Globe

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce his final decision on the proposed 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound today in Boston at noon at the Statehouse. The announcement comes after nine years of controversy since the nation's first offshore wind farm was proposed.....

Kerry Gives Conditional Support For Cape Wind

April 27, 2010 - National Journal

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said today he would support Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound, but with a caveat.....

Cape Wind Decision Nears; Kerry Stays Mum

April 27, 2010 - National Journal

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to decide by the end of this week whether his agency will greenlight Cape Wind, the controversial wind farm project planned for Nantucket Sound that has been tied up in the permitting process for nine years.....

Pressure Is Building on Disputed Wind Farm

April 26, 2010 - New York Times

Political pressure continues to build on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as he prepares to announce his decision this week on the fate of a proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., that has been stalled for nine years.....

Energy sector poised for innovation -- with the right spark

April 23, 2010 - Washington Post

This country runs on innovation. The American success story -- from Ben Franklin's bifocals to Thomas Edison's light bulb to Henry Ford's assembly line to today's advanced microprocessors -- is all about inventing our future. The companies we ran, Microsoft and DuPont, were successful because they invested deeply in new technologies and new ideas.

But our country is neglecting a field central to our national prospect and security: energy.....

Nine-year wind farm fight splits Cape Cod

April 20, 2010 - CNN

The Rev. William Eddy stands at the bow of his 53-foot sailboat nestled in the postcard setting of Cape Cod.

A lifelong resident of the Cape and islands, Eddy built his staysail schooner by hand, and on this day, he's using it as his pulpit. A perfect storm, he says, has been brewing over the past decade among residents driven to hysterics by the idea of building the nation's first offshore wind farm in the middle of Nantucket Sound.....

Wind energy decision carries political impact

April 19, 2010 - Washington Times

With a tight-lipped President Obama facing both a political dilemma and a critical deadline, the nation's offshore wind energy industry is about to find out which way the breezes are blowing.....

Decision on Cape Cod wind project due this month

April 15, 2010 - Associated Press

The Obama administration decides this month after a nine-year review whether the nation's first wind farm should be built off Cape Cod. If it says no, the industry faces another question with no easy answer: "What's next?".....

Big Oil Blows Wind Power Out of the Water

April 13, 2010 - Minyanville

2009 was a banner year for wind energy. But if not for some deep-pocketed oil executives, it would have been better.....

Connectivity Could Be a Stabilizing Force in Wind Power

April 13, 2010 - New York Times

Like most other sources of alternative energy, the wind can be intermittent. It does not blow uniformly, so power output from wind turbines rises and falls. And when the wind doesn’t blow at all, output drops to zero.....

Battle Over Wind

April 11, 2010 - CBS News Video

Increasing usage of wind and solar power is a high priority, but easier said than done. Russ Mitchell shows us a modern-day battle to build a wind farm.....

After Cape Wind, deep challenges for offshore wind

April 1, 2010 - CNET News

Having seen the opposition to Cape Wind, other wind developers are choosing to go farther offshore and into deeper waters, as they did in Rhode Island. That helps address complaints over the visual impact of wind mills, but it also adds to the technical complexity and cost of offshore wind, according to experts.....

Wind warriors tilt on windmills once more

March 26, 2010 - Barnstable Patriot

The Cape Wind project will ruin historic vistas. The Cape Wind project will protect historic vistas by fighting climate change and sea level rise.

You could pick your poison, and your potion, at the March 15 hearing held by the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation at Cape Cod Community College.....

Keller At Large On Cape Wind

March 23, 2010 - WBZ Radio

One of our greatest resources here in our little corner of America is our history and it's to our credit that for the most part we guarded it aggressively. Even though we suffered tons from lagging economic development and housing creation because of that gantlet of historical watchdog groups.....

State preservation chief cites wind farm impact

March 23, 2010 - Boston Globe

The state’s top historic preservation official told a federal panel yesterday that the impact of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm on Native American and other historic sites is “unparalleled’’ in the state’s history.....

Off-Shore Wind Farming – What Are You Waiting For, America?

March 9, 2010 - Business Insider

In this interview with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget, Jim discusses Cape Wind, a proposed 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound that has the potential to generate three-quarters of the power needs of Cape Cod - but thus far has generated only controversy.....

Decision time for Salazar on Cape Wind

March 1, 2010 - Cape Cod Times

The federal government's decision on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm is now firmly in the hands of U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Salazar gave Cape Wind and the Wampanoag Indian tribes on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard until yesterday to reach an agreement reconciling differences on how a 130-turbine wind farm in the Sound will impact the tribes' cultural traditions.....

Cape Wind saga gets new twist

February 18, 2010 - Boston Globe

The already twisted Nantucket Sound wind farm saga just got a bit stranger: A Wampanoag tribal member says it is "fabricated cosmology" that his tribe performs sun ceremonies that need an unobstructed view of the Sound -- as the tribe has claimed in a campaign to halt the energy project off Cape Cod.....

Cape Wind savings pegged at billions

February 11, 2010 - Cape Cod Times

The developer of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm released a study yesterday that claims the project would save $4.6 billion in New England's wholesale electric costs over 25 years.....

New Study: Cape Wind Will Reduce Regional Electricity Prices by $4.6 Billion

February 10, 2010 - Cape Wind

Cape Wind will reduce wholesale electric prices for the New England region by $4.6 billion over 25 years.

Swept Away

February 9, 2010 - The Daily Free Press

The view of the Nantucket Sound from the coast of Cape Cod is comprised of blue waters, thriving wildlife, abundant greenery and, if the proposal for the Cape Wind project is approved, 130 “little matchsticks on the horizon”

Mass. wind farm that Obama administration might support meets strong resistance

February 8, 2010 - Washington Post

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar journeyed out into Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard vessel last week to signal the Obama administration's readiness to put some muscle behind wind energy.....

With decision looming, Salazar meets face to face

February 3, 2010 - Boston Globe

The place? Middle of Nantucket Sound. The weather? 28 degrees and overcast. And with the wind barely blowing yesterday, the conditions were hardly ideal for talking about plopping a 130-turbine wind farm about 5 miles off Cape Cod.....

Interior chief tours proposed Mass. wind farm site

February 2, 2010 - Washington Post

The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is weighing the fate of a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, said Tuesday that killing the pioneering project wouldn't hurt the country's developing offshore wind industry.....

Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year

January 26, 2010 - New York Times

Despite a crippling recession and tight credit markets, the American wind power industry grew at a blistering pace in 2009, adding 39 percent more capacity. The country is close to the point where 2 percent of its electricity will come from wind turbines.....

Cape Wind's fate unclear, even in Obama's hands

January 24, 2010 - Washington Post

After eight years of review, the future of a controversial wind farm off Cape Cod now rests in what would seem to be friendly hands - an Obama administration that's pledged to make the U.S. "the world's leading exporter of clean energy....."

Video: Changing Tides on Cape Wind

January 17, 2010 - Clean Skies

For nine years the Cape Wind Associates have been trying to get a license to develop an off-shore wind farm in the waters off Cape Cod. Now, the group faces another setback from the National Register of Historic Places.....

Salazar reiterates Cape Wind timetable in Washington meeting

January 13, 2010 - Boston Globe

It’s unlikely that the long-running dispute over the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will be resolved during the high-profile meetings in Washington today, although US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reiterated his intention to wrap up permitting of the project soon, according to a participant in one of a series of meetings he held today......

CLEAN POWER NOW: FINAL DECISION ON CAPE WIND EXPECTED AFTER WEDNESDAY MEETING WITH INTERIOR SECRETARY SALAZAR

January 12, 2010 - Clean Power Now News Release

Hill: Confident of Outcome After 9 Years of Review, All Questions Answered; 86 Percent of State Residents Support Nation’s First Wind Park, Including Many Stakeholders Not at Salazar Meeting.....

Wind farm faces new roadblock

January 5, 2010 - Cape Cod Times

The U.S. National Park Service announced yesterday that Nantucket Sound is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, a move that could sink the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.....

A decision in sight on Cape Wind dispute

January 5, 2010 - Boston Globe

The Obama administration signaled a sudden urgency yesterday to resolve the nine-year dispute over building a wind farm off Cape Cod, as US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced he would summon key parties to a meeting next week in hope of concluding the decision process within two months.....

Secretary Salazar Initiates Final Review of Cape Wind Proposal

January 4, 2010 - U.S. Department of the Interior News Release

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today issued the following statement in response to the determination by the National Park Service’s Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places that Nantucket Sound is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The finding of eligibility ensures that significant archeological, historic and cultural values are considered in the review of the permit for the proposed Cape Wind project by the Minerals Management Service (MMS).....

Deal between utility, Cape Wind moves ahead

December 30, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The state Department of Public Utilities yesterday approved a plan by National Grid to negotiate to buy power from the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.

The state agency must still sign off on any deal reached by Cape Wind Associates LLC and the utility, which provides electricity to customers on Nantucket, other parts of New England, and in New York......

Offshore Wind Blowing into the Ocean State

December 11, 2009 - Renewables Biz

Late Wednesday the utility, National Grid, and the project developer, New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind, said they had hammered out a power purchase agreement. The agreement brought this phase of the process to closer to completion, following months of contentious negotiations, prodded along by Governor Donald Carcieri.....

Marker for college tower goes back up Dec. 12

December 11, 2009 - Barnstable Patriot

They’ll have to try again, and the Barnstable Old King’s Highway Committee would appreciate it if they did so with a bigger balloon.

OKH members didn’t have a good chance to see a balloon test intended to demonstrate the height of Cape Cod Community College’s proposed wind turbine on its campus off Route 132 this week due to a storm with high winds.....

Cape Wind, National Grid deal in works

December 3, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

An agreement is in the works that could clear the way for Cape Wind to secure critical financial support for the company's proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.

National Grid, which provides electricity to customers on Nantucket and in other parts of New England and New York, will begin negotiations with Cape Wind Associates LLC to purchase power from the 130-turbine project, Gov. Deval Patrick announced yesterday.....

Utility bets on offshore turbines

December 3, 2009 - Boston Globe

Cape Wind may have turned a critical corner.

Yesterday, Governor Deval Patrick’s administration said the yet-to-be-built offshore wind farm has secured a long-term customer for its electricity: National Grid. It’s the kind of deal opponents had doubted the project could get......

Poll: Most Cape Codders favor wind farm

December 3, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The authors of a 2005 survey on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm have released results from a new poll that shows a shift of local attitudes in favor of the project.

The University of Delaware survey results, released yesterday, indicate that more residents of the Cape and Islands now support Cape Wind than oppose it.....

Mass. Offshore Wind Farm Takes Big Step Forward

December 2, 2009 - Domestic Fuel

The company building a proposed wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts possibly has found a market for its wind energy … once it starts actually generating the green power.....

Kennedy's Passing, Markey's Backing Could Affect Wind Farm

November 19, 2009 - The National Journal

Depending on what side you're on, Rep. Edward Markey's recent endorsement of a controversial offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast is either a boon or a bane. But what's certain is that it's a sign the political winds are shifting more than two months after the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.....

Coakley: Cape Wind merits approval

November 17, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Attorney General Martha Coakley appreciates the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's love for Nantucket Sound. But, as for his vision of its future, that's not a view she shares.

Despite Kennedy's opposition, Coakley, who is running for the Senate seat formerly held by Kennedy, counts herself as a strong supporter of the Nantucket Sound wind farm, proposed to stand about six miles off the coast from Kennedy's Hyannisport home.....

Historic designation could change Sound

November 16, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The debate over whether to build the country's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound is no stranger to challenges.

The latest — a bid by the Wampanoag tribes on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard to have the 560-square-mile Sound declared eligible for the National Register of Historic Places — may top the list.....

Markey urges federal Cape Wind approval

November 9, 2009 - The Boston Globe

Although U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey is chair of a congressional climate change committee and a co-sponsor of clean energy legislation, he’s never explicitly come out in favor of the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.....

Can Offshore Winds Spin a Market for U.s.-Made Turbines?

Novmeber 9, 2009 - Climate Wire for New York Times

Middle Eastern oil is one energy dependency. Another, looming in the future, could be a growing array of wind turbines, situated along the Eastern Seaboard, manufactured by European companies and feeding electricity to nearby American cities......

Nantucket Sound may get new status

November 6, 2009 - The Boston Globe

Massachusetts’ top historic preservation officer has dealt a setback to the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, ruling yesterday that the body of water is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places because of its cultural significance for two Native American tribes.....

UPDATE: US Interior Secy Sees Cape Wind Decision By Year-End

November 2, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday that he expects a final decision on Cape Wind, one of the first planned offshore wind farms in the country, by the end of the year.....

Tribes seek halt to proposed Cape Cod wind farm

November 2, 2009 - The Associated Press

From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.....

2 tribes object to Cape Wind turbines

October 26, 2009 - The Boston Globe

Native American rituals and beliefs have emerged as a surprising last-minute obstacle to federal approval of the nation’s first offshore wind farm, threatening to significantly delay the Cape Wind project.....

Report Examines Hidden Health and Environmental Costs of Energy Production and Consumption In U.S.

October 19, 2009 - NationalAcademies.org

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates "hidden" costs of energy production and use -- such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health -- that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.....

Environmental and labor groups want to end delays on Cape Wind

October 14, 2009 - Climate Wire

A coalition of environmental and labor groups sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday urging the department to quickly grant approval to the Cape Wind offshore wind energy project, while discounting a key argument that has fueled the most recent delay.....

Indians tribes seek National Register listing for Nantucket Sound; Cape Wind proponents respond

October 14, 2009 - The Examiner

Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm proposed in the United States, has met with, and overcome many obstacles since it was proposed eight years ago, including well-funded local groups and powerful politicians......

Palm Beach Billionaire Koch Likes Tax Subsidies Too

October 9, 2009 - New Times Broward-Palm Beach

One of Palm Beach billionaire Bill Koch's main objections to a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound -- which he has spent millions of dollars fighting -- is that it will require tax breaks to succeed.....

States Have the Wind at Their Backs in the Offshore Debate

October 8, 2009 - New York Times

Eastern states advanced their commitment this week to quell the fierce competition around building the nation's first offshore wind farm and cooperate toward creating and pushing a web of ocean-based turbine facilities.....

Duke Plans Offshore Wind Pilot Project

October 7, 2009 - American Wind Energy Association

Wind opponent Sen. Lamar Alexander's decision to use the Nature Conservancy's somewhat academic "sprawl" report as a rhetorical cudgel in his pro-nuclear, anti-renewable campaign is causing some heartburn at the Conservancy and among other environmentalists.....

Duke Plans Offshore Wind Pilot Project

October 6, 2009 - Greentech Media

North Carolina could become the first state in the country to see wind turbines planted in offshore waters.....

Pioneering Wind Farm Faces Another Delay, This Time Over Indian Sites

October 5, 2009 - New York Times

Final approval for Cape Wind is stalled, aggravating developers of the Massachusetts offshore wind project and igniting concerns that the latest roadblock -- over American Indian ceremonies -- could jeopardize other ocean-based energy proposals.....

Outlook for US Offshore Wind Projects: Favorable with High Gusts

October 1, 2009 - Renewable Energy World

The United States is viewed as one of the next big markets for offshore wind generation. Now that the Cape Wind project is considered more likely than not to proceed and the favorable political climate towards renewables, it is not a question of whether U.S. offshore wind farms will get built but how many.....

Wind messages blown to Obama

August 30, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

As President Barack Obama and his family flew from Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard earlier this week, he may have looked to the east upon the water above Horseshoe Shoal. Depending on Marine One's flight path, he might have even glimpsed the data collection tower installed there by Cape Wind Associates.....

Offshore wind farm in Atlantic at least a year away

August 28, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

For at least one more summer, vacationers on Martha's Vineyard won't be able to gaze across the water and see, far off on the horizon, the churning blades of offshore wind turbines -- no matter how badly the island's most famous current vacationer would like.....

Wind messages blown to Obama

August 28, 2009 - National Public Radio

Offshore wind is an alternative energy source touted by the Obama Administration. But plans may be delayed by controversy over a project planned for waters off Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, where the President's on vacation. We hear about green power and global warming, natural beauty and the tourist economy, and what's at stake for America's energy future.....

Cape Wind Sorely Missed as New England Hits Peak Summer Demand

August 23, 2009 - Ecopolitology

As the temperature in Boston soared to 95 degrees on Tuesday afternoon and New England reached its peak electricity demand thus far this year, the proposed offshore wind farm, Cape Wind, would have supplied 300 megawatts of electricity during that crucial hour, according to data collected at Cape Wind’s Scientific Data Tower in Nantucket Sound.....

No Waves Until Obama Decides on Cape Wind

August 22, 2009 - Breakthrough Institute

Like any savvy tourist trap that knows the President of the United States will be dropping in, Martha's Vineyard is prepared to play the gracious host to the Obama family this week. But a recent article in the National Journal highlights how local Cape Wind activists, including Breakthrough Senior Fellow Barbara Hill, the executive director of Clean Power Now, are intent on making sure President Obama addresses the offshore wind debate before he relaxes on the Cape Cod sand.....

A presidential cup of coffee with a dash of Cape Wind?

August 20, 2009 - Boston Globe

Will President Obama get a mouthful about the Cape Wind project with a double scoop of rocky road?

As the First Family descends on Martha’s Vineyard, a National Journal story by Amy Harder notes that wind farm supporters who work in local ice cream shops to farms could serve some encouragement along with a latte or locally grown corn for the President to shake loose a final federal decision on the wind farm.....

Obama Vacations In Clean-Energy Battleground

August 19, 2009 - National Journal

With President Obama vacationing in Martha's Vineyard next week, local activists plan to soak up the national spotlight as the first family soaks up the sun.

Nantucket Sound, where plans to build a 130-turbine wind farm have sparked heated resistance, has become ground zero for a larger debate about offshore renewable energies.....

Legal wheels spinning over turbine rejection

August 16, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Legal scholars agree the dismissal of an appeal of a planning board decision against a residential wind turbine does not set a precedent, but local bylaws could pose a problem for future projects.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Christopher Muse dismissed Francis and Wendie Howland's challenge to the planning board's denial of their special permit for a 132-foot-high turbine on their Barlows Landing property in a decision handed down July 29.....

Patrick helps wind turbine subsidiary start spinning

July 23, 2009 - News Telegram

Calling it “an important step out of the fossil fuel era and into the clean energy future,” Gov. Deval L. Patrick yesterday headlined the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the grand opening of Vestas Power Systems, a subsidiary of the world’s largest supplier of wind turbines.....

State draws zones for coast wind farms

July 1, 2009 - The Boston Globe

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.....

Cape Cod panel challenges state on Wind Farm permit

June 18, 2009 - The Boston Globe

The influential Cape Cod Commission is appealing a state board’s recent decision to grant the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm a suite of local permits, warning that the move could mean little local say in future energy projects across the state.....

State planners get feedback on wind power

June 18, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Massachusetts officials last night heard mostly praise with a smattering of criticism and suggestions for their plans to harness wind energy on state-owned land.

"Be sure that the cities and towns are well-informed while the projects go forward on state land," Bourne Town Administrator Thomas Guerino warned the officials during a public hearing at Massachusetts Maritime Academy attended by about 75 people.....

Wind farm ruling faces appeal

June 16, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The Cape Cod Commission has announced it will appeal to the state's highest court to overturn the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board's approval of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.

In October 2007, the commission denied the proposal by Cape Wind Associates to build 130 wind turbines in the sound, citing a lack of information necessary to approve the project.....

East Coast May Feel Rise in Sea Levels the Most

June 8, 2009 - The Washington Post

Sea levels could rise faster along the U.S. East Coast than in any other densely populated part of the world, new research shows, as changes in ice caps and ocean currents push water toward a shoreline inlaid with cities, resort boardwalks and gem-rare habitats.....

Is community wind power full of hot air?

June 3, 2009 - Cnet News

Call it wind power for the neighborhood.

Some companies are trying to stake out a middle ground in wind power by making mid-size turbines big enough for a school or big-box retailer to use, but not so big that they require a convoy of trucks to be delivered.....

Gov. Patrick hails Cape Wind permit approvals

May 28, 2009 - The Boston Globe

Governor Deval Patrick today hailed a state board's approval of permits for the controversial Cape Wind project.

"The time has come to see the first offshore wind farm in America rise off the Massachusetts coast, a powerful symbol of our commitment to a clean energy future," Patrick said in a statement.....

First offshore wind farm in country gets green light from state

May 28, 2009 - Mass.Gov

BOSTON – The state Energy Facilities Siting Board has finalized a Certificate of Environmental Impact and Public Interest granting all of the state and local permits necessary for the Cape Wind Associates wind energy project to proceed to construction.....

Mass. gives final approval to Cape Wind

May 22, 2009 - Climate Wire

Massachusetts officials approved all the remaining state and local permits needed by Cape Wind Associates to build an offshore wind farm about 5 miles from the coast of Cape Cod. The federal government is expected to issue its final decision this summer.....

Brewster home wind turbine up and running

May 18, 2009 - Cape Codder

How many volts can a homeowner save before he taps into the grid? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.

Brewster surveyor Peter Soule will find out soon, as his 100-foot high home wind turbine is finally churning out the kilowatts.....

Senator Kennedy's NIMBY Legacy

May 15, 2009 - Milldeboro Review

For eight years, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), along with other wealthy Cape Cod NIMBY residents have stymied the development of an offshore wind project called Cape Wind.....

European journalists astonished at American NIMBYism

May 11, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

Haze lies close over the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, on the east coast of the United States.

The weather is like this for 200 days a year, even on the day in May when BT came for a visit.....

Barnstable's lawsuit against Cape Wind thrown out

May 8, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

BARNSTABLE — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed last year by the Town of Barnstable against Cape Wind and the state's Energy Facilities Siting Board.....

Cape Wind: The Guessing game.

May 5, 2009 - The Boston Globe

When do you think the final word is going to come on Cape Wind? And what will it be?

Ever since 2001 when the 130-turbine Nantucket Sound project was first announced, the question has loomed.....

Massachusetts Lawmakers Advocate Cape Wind Approval

May 4, 2009 - Environment News Service

BOSTON(ENS) – More than half the members of the Massachusetts Legislature, 107 in total, representing Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate, including 28 committee chairmen, have signed onto a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urging him to approve the offshore wind farm planned for Nantucket Sound as soon as possible.....

Obama & Salazar Release Framework for Renewable Energy Development on OCS

April 24, 2009 - Renewable Energy World

In an Earth Day speech at a wind turbine tower manufacturing plant, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).....

OBAMA/SALAZAR DECISION ON OFFSHORE WIND HAILED AS “BIGGEST FEDERAL STEP FORWARD TO DATE FOR CLEAN ENERGY” IN THE U.S.

April 22, 2009 - Clean Power Now and CLEAN Press Release

In the wake of the Earth Day action by President Barack Obama and Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on new guidelines clearing the way for major offshore wind projects, the following statement was issued today by Clean Power Now (http://www.CleanPowernow.org) and TheClean.org(http://www.TheClean.org).....

U.S. to clear way for offshore wind farms

April 22, 2009 - Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON— The Interior Department has finalized sweeping rules that clear the way for the first offshore wind turbines to be erected along the Atlantic Coast, the most aggressive move yet from an administration that hopes to shift the nation's offshore energy goals from oil to wind power.....

The seven eco wonders of the world

April 13, 2009 - Mother Nature Network

The Dutch are known for windmills, but it’s the Danish who now claim the world’s second-largest offshore wind farm, located in shallow but navigable waters 6 miles off the shore of the bucolic southern coastal town of Nysted. Gently rotating blades reach out more than 130 feet from their colossal 225-foot posts. Seen from the sky, the 72 sleek, marine-gray towers rise from the ocean in neat rows, marking out a parallelogram.....

Salazar: Eastern wind could equal coal for power

April 6, 2009 - Boston Globe

If wind power were fully developed off the East Coast, windmills could generate enough electricity to replace most, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.....

78 Legislators urge Interior Secretary to approve Cape Wind a.s.a.p.

April 6, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

This morning, Chairman Frank Smizik of the Massachusetts House of Representatives announced 78 Members of the Massachusetts House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, have signed a letter urging Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to approve Cape Wind as soon as possible.....

Same old, same old at Cape Cod Commission

March 31, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

Like a superannuated Tyrannosaurus Rex with arthritis, the Cape Cod Commission speakers for the first hour droned on as they have been doing for over half the decade reiterating the reasons they oppose the renewable energy project in federal waters in Nantucket Sound.....

Undersea cables unlikely to snare turbines

March 28, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

A new federal study on the effects of submarine electric cables on marine wildlife should not delay a decision on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, according to an e-mail statement from the lead agency reviewing the project....

Latest distortion of facts by Cape Cod Times on Cape Wind

March 27, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

Media mendacity mated with deliberate disinformation again today on the front page of the Cape Cod Times in a completely erroneous and hyped story which was wrong in all basic areas....."

Barnstable County has spent over a quarter million to stop Cape Wind - Has town-sized legal bills

March 23, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

The courts have consistently ruled that the issues involved between Cape Wind and the Cape Cod Commission are not within the jurisdiction of the Commission, and yet this burgeoning county bureaucracy has spent $285,637.90 of its dwindling revenues with a Boston law firm to block that renewable energy project.....

Cape Cod Commission to host meeting on wind farm rulings

March 22, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The Cape Cod Commission will hold a public meeting March 30 to review comments on a state decision to sign off on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.....

Cape Wind permit considered likely

March 13, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Following a tentative decision by a state board yesterday, Cape Wind Associates, LLC, is poised to receive a "super permit," knocking off nine state and local approvals it needs to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound.....

Wind farm adversaries have new foe in Salazar

March 11, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

In saying the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm "makes sense" and appears to be a "good project," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is stepping into the nearly decade-long debate over the contentious project with both feet.

Salazar's support for the plan by Cape Wind Associates LLC to build 130 wind turbines in the Sound is in line with President Barack Obama's call for more energy from renewable sources. But it did not sit well with opponents of the plan yesterday.....

Interior Secretary Salazar supports Cape Wind

March 10, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Expressing clear support for Cape Wind's proposed turbines in Nantucket Sound, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said yesterday that the waters off the Atlantic coast hold some of the country's greatest wind energy potential. He promised to move aggressively to develop plans to exploit the resource......

Salazar pushes for wind energy

March 9, 2009 - International Herald Tribune

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday that the waters off the Atlantic coast hold some of the country's greatest wind energy potential, and he promised to move aggressively to develop plans to exploit the resource......

Clean Power Now elects three new members to board of directors

March 5, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

HYANNIS — Clean Power Now, a Hyannis-based renewable energy advocacy group, has elected three new members to its board of directors.

Ruth Bechtold-Imhof of West Barnstable, Jennifer Boyle of Boston and Steve Barrett of Concord will join the board this month......

Alliance sues CZM, seeks to stop Cape Wind from moving forward

February 26, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound has filed a lawsuit to stop Cape Wind Associates LLC from building a wind turbine farm in Nantucket Sound.

Last Friday, the Alliance and 12 Massachusetts residents filed a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court against Cape Wind Associates, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and Deerin Babb-Brott, director of the office.......

Cape Wind waits for crucial record of decision

February 24, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

This much is clear: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has yet to issue a record of decision on the proposed Cape Wind project.

After that, it gets a bit cloudy......

Wind farm comment period extended

February 19, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has extended by one month the public comment period on its final environmental report for the Cape Wind energy project......

Salazar: Renewable energy offers 'huge potential' along Atlantic Coast

February 10, 2009 - Cape Cod Today

When it comes to wind projects built off the coast of Massachusetts, the proposed Cape Wind project south of Cape Cod might just be the start.

In a news conference yesterday in Washington, D.C., Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said renewable energy offers "huge potential" along the nation's Atlantic Coast......

New forecasts aim to help with wind energy

February 4, 2009 - The Boston Globe

DENVER—Federal researchers are developing pinpoint forecasts to help utilities predict which way the wind will blow -- and how strong -- so they'll know how much electricity their wind turbines will generate.....

Key hurdles cleared, Cape Wind ready to rev up

February 4, 2009 - Cape Cod Times

Cape Wind could begin to set up financing for its plan to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound as early as this spring, according to a company official.....

Cape Wind Receives CZM Consistency Determinations

January 28th, 2009 - North American Windpower

Cape Wind has received approval from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) in the form of two consistency determinations. Following on the heels of the favorable final environmental impact statement from the Minerals Management Service, these determinations will now allow for federal agencies to finalize Cape Wind's permitting......

Obama faces tough choice on Cape Cod wind farm

January 26th, 2009 - The Boston Globe

President Barack Obama's enthusiasm for alternative energy is being buffeted by two political forces on opposite sides of plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod.

A leading foe of the $1 billion project is Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., an early and influential backer of Obama's presidential bid. A strong proponent is Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a close friend of Obama and a source for some of his best campaign speech lines.....

In view of the end zone

January 17th, 2009 - The Cape Cod Times

BOSTON — Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind Associates, was buoyant before the bank of TV cameras in his office yesterday, leaning forward in his chair, seemingly eager to start construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm that very minute .....

Cape Wind passes yet still another test

January 16th, 2009 - Blue Mass Group

Now that this project has earned its "Good Housekeeping seal of approval" we expect our elected leaders to fulfill their promise to support this project once that regulatory process is completed. That day is today and we welcome Senator Kennedy, Senator Kerry, and Congressman Markey to add their voices to the overwhelming majority of people in Massachusetts who support Cape Wind. .....

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