CS Sunday: Changing Tides on Cape Wind
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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. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gathered all parties to discuss the Register's decision to deem the Nantucket Sound as a possible historic location. Clean Skies talks to Salazar in an exclusive interview, and goes inside the meeting. We also hear from the President of Cape Wind Associates. What is the next step?
Published: 01/17/10 10:30am
Running Time: 28:29
Related Keywords: Clean Skies News, Lee Patrick Sullivan, Margaret Ryan, Susan McGinnis, Tyler Suiters, Anne Stausboll, Jim Gordon, Ken Salazar, Kevin Parker, Mindy Lubber, Rob McCord, Cape Cod, Cape Wind Associates, carbon investors, CERES, Deutsche Asset Management, Ford, Historic Registry, Iceland, Interior Department, Jonathan Pershing, Mashpee, NAIAS, Todd Stern, wind, Clean Skies Sunday
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PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND FROM
PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND FROM THE CAPE WIND FACTORY, RELOCATE THE INDUSTRIAL PROJECT
As a colonial-rooted Cape Cod native who firmly believes in the sanctity of our maritime heritage, I am writing to ardently express my steadfast support for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. Based upon sensible logic, data and reasoning, I am also conversely opposed to the controversial Cape Wind Project which seeks to despoil and rob us of the pristine nautical legacy bestowed by our forefathers. As a result of the likely profound damaging regional financial, ecological and public safety consequences Cape Wind would wrought upon us all, it should not be allowed to proceed forward to fruition.
The project poses a cogent danger to essential air and sea navigation. Siting the project in Nantucket Sound is a breach of the public trust. Contrary to their sham claims, the cost of the electricity which the project will produce would not be cheap or competitive. It would be an unbearable fiscal burden hoisted upon us without our sanction or consent. Furthermore, it will represent a deleterious local economic blow by it's absconding of undeserved taxpayer-funded subsidies, forced real estate devaluations, and lost revenues from commercial and tourism activities. The proposed one hundred thirty wind turbines will perpetually cause unsightly visual contamination and distressing noise pollution. Finally, Cape Wind will unnecessarily endanger a critical marine and wildlife habitat.
Off-shore deep water wind has surfaced as a cost-effective and technologically feasible option in lieu of the Nantucket Sound situated Cape Wind Project. Cape Wind has chosen a location which possesses countless expenses as well as hazards to public safety, the marine environment, and the local economy. Deeper-water sites offer more powerful winds and the advantages of clean renewable energy without surrendering the irreplaceable natural beauty of Nantucket Sound.
More distantly sited off-shore locations guarantee the advantages of clean wind power without many of the harmful effects of close-shore siting. Furthermore, there would be little harmful impact upon air and marine navigational safety and local tourist-based economies.
In 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) estimated a total off-shore wind energy resource of over 1000 GW. The potential for deep water locations greater than 30 m (or 100 feet) is enormous. Approximately ninety percent of the off-shore wind potential in the United States resides in deep water.
With the aforesaid thoughtful rationales in mind, along with the inherently unfair and inequitable nature of the proposed Cape Wind Project itself, it must not become a reality which will forever doom our children and grandchildren to a ghastly socially inhumane legacy.
Ron Beaty
West Barnstable, MA