Article reprinted in its entirety from SNL Financial, with permission.

Click here to view this interview by Henry Blodget of Business Insider of Cape Wind President Jim Gordon

The U.S. lags behind other countries in the race for clean technology even though it has the greatest "innovation machine" in the world, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a Stanford University audience Monday.

..."Right now we're in a state of paralysis. Many businesses say, 'No, no, we can't do this; this country was founded on cheap energy and that's what I want.'

"But that's just holding off the inevitable. If we hold off the inevitable for another five years or 10 years, we'll lose because other countries are ahead. We will play catch-up and the United States is at risk. Energy touches everything in the United States. It is very important."

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...We suggest that the time for action is at hand. If the Obama administration is serious about the promise of alternative energies, there is more than enough information on the record to justify giving Cape Wind the go-ahead. A nation that is unwilling to put solid ideas to the test is one that will inherit plenty of wind — but no electrical power to show for it.
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A Wampanoag (WAHM'-pah-nog) Indian tribe from Massachusetts is supporting a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm opposed by two tribes closer to the project.

The Pocasset Wampanoag chairman George Spring Buffalo wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who is considering the 130-turbine Cape Wind project.  ...He said Cape Wind fits a vision for energy "produced in harmony with nature."
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Click here to read a related article in Cape Cod Today that contains the text of Chairman George Spring Buffalo's letter

Two prominent members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) say there is no historical basis to support claims by tribe leaders that a wind farm in Nantucket Sound would interfere with important cultural ceremonies based on the rising of the sun in the east. They say the claims are fiction.

Tribe member Jeffrey Madison, in a February 9 letter sent to Ken Salazar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, supported by a statement signed by eight members of the tribe including Beverly Wright, a tribal council member and former five-term chairman of the tribe, disputed the tribe's claim about the cultural value of the Cape Wind site.
Note: Click here to read this article in the Martha's Vineyard Times

Eight years ago, I was strongly opposed to the wind farm on Nantucket Sound. I didn't think it was worth it to trade the aesthetic and spiritual values of a beautiful natural environment for a limited contribution to our nation's energy problems. Today, I strongly support Cape Wind.

Note: Click here to read this Op Ed in the Cape Cod Times

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.

But the tribe member made the allegation only after his law firm was recently hired by the developers of the Cape Wind project.

Jeffrey Madison, a Martha’s Vineyard lawyer, wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that his father and grandfather were both tribe medicine men. “I am stating to you with complete honesty and knowledge that I never participated in, witnessed, or even heard of a sacred spot on the horizon that is relevant to any Aquinnah Wampanoag culture, history or ceremony. Nor did I see, or hear, either my father or grandfather conduct such ceremony,’’ he wrote.

Madison also submitted a petition to Salazar with eight signatures of other Wampanoag tribe members, saying they did not believe the wind turbines would “materially interfere with any significant cultural activity.’’
Note: Click here to read this article in the Boston Globe

As the U.S. Interior Department nears a decision on Cape Wind's proposal to build 130 wind turbines on Nantucket Sound, rhetoric rises from oceanic depths to 400-foot molehills.

Opponents have allied with Wampanoags aiming to protect views of sacred grounds, er, sacred waters, er, sacred something, when tribes aren't busy promoting casinos.  As a fan of Cape Wind, I'd be satisfied with a large fraction of local electricity issuing from silent, nonpolluting technology.

Graceful and viable aren't good enough for NIMBYs; they expect magic, as if windmills could be invisible as well. Houses, work places, shops and the wires that carry electricity aren't invisible. Cars, ships delivering goods from China and the machines that wash our clothes and dishes aren't silent. If we've survived those, we can survive wind-powered generators.

Opponents claim windmills will "industrialize" Nantucket Sound. That horse escaped the barn 300 years ago during the first oil boom, local whaling, which included smoky, beachfront try-works to render the blubber.
Note: Click here to read this Op Ed in the Cape Cod Times by Tom Gelsthorpe

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.

The nine-page report by Charles River Associates found that if Cape Wind were built the total cost of electricity paid by utilities in the region would be $185 million less on average each year. In 2008, the total wholesale cost of electricity in New England was $12 billion, according to Independent System Operator New England, the organization that manages the region's wholesale electricity market.
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