Op Ed by Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers as run in the Cape Cod Times on June 26 concerning the recent announcement by the Cape Cod Commission of a new legal challenge.

The UK's seas could provide enough extra wind energy to power the equivalent of 19m homes, according to an assessment by the government.

The government's strategic environmental assessment (Sea) confirmed projections that an extra 25GW of electricity generation capacity could be accommodated in UK waters.  This would be in addition to the 8GW of wind power already built or planned offshore, bringing the potential total electricity capacity of offshore wind to 33GW – enough to power every household in the UK.
Note: Click here to read this article in the Guardian

Click here to read the interview by Rita Watson of Cape Wind President Jim Gordon on the website GreenLegals

Build the wind farm, already.

...This project has had a full and fair hearing. It’s time to drop the lawsuits.
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Click here to read this Column by Yvonne Abraham in the Boston Sunday Globe

Imagine a renewable energy source so large it can provide enough power for 750,000 homes, or a quarter of all homes in London, England, especially when the fuel is free. It's called the London Array and when built it will be the world's largest offshore wind farm.
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Click here to read this Op Ed by Charles Kleekamp of Sandwich in the Cape Cod Times

It has been 2,755 days since the Cape Wind project was first formally proposed. It is a controversy older than the war in Iraq. Hostilities began only a few weeks after the war in Afghanistan.

And, as in those other conflicts, indeed in any protracted battle, it’s crucial to maintain morale of the troops, particularly when your allies are dropping off and it looks as if you’re losing. Surveys show public opinion in the state is strongly in favor of the wind farm, and the Patrick administration in Boston, too.

Thus Audra Parker, executive director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the main community group opposing the Cape Wind development, has been running a new argument lately.  It’s not just about Cape Wind anymore, she argues, although that is still the group’s major focus. It is about the precedent which would be set if Cape Wind gets the go-ahead.
Note: Click here to read this Vineyard Gazette article

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.

The project has sparked debate because it calls for erecting a wind farm with 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound.  Patrick said in a statement that the state had "done its job" of reviewing the project and the federal permitting process was winding down.

Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said the project was "ready to move forward. Soon, the Commonwealth will cement its position as the natural hub for the American offshore wind industry."
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Click here to read this Boston Globe article

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued this important News Release about Cape Wind today.

By CYNTHIA STEAD  May 28, 2009

It was at any one of a number of public hearings about the Cape Wind project that I saw an acquaintance from West Dennis. I said to him, "Do you remember when you were helping to form the Village Library Association, and I was a member of the Friends of the Dennis Public Library? The whole controversy about building a true public library in Dennisport? And how that would mean the end of the village libraries, and the collapse of the small local groups that support them? And how now, that the Dennis Public Library is built, it's meant that all the little village libraries are doing better than ever, and we also have a new public facility?"

He replied cautiously that he did indeed remember. "I have the same feeling about Cape Wind that I did about the public library then — that it's a good idea, and after the controversy clears, we'll all benefit and be grateful that it's built — just like the library."
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Click here to read this Op Ed in the Cape Cod Times

Note: Click here to read this Reuters article in the Guardian (London);  Click here to read the Cape Cod Times article;  Click here to read the Associated Press article