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Here's an irony for you: The same ocean breezes that are pushing oil onto the beaches and wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico could be helping to power our country and reduce our dependence on those very fossil fuels.
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Click here to read this Op Ed by Ted Danson on the Huffington Post

Click here to view Boston Globe video interviews of business leaders discussing Cape Wind at a Progressive Business Leaders Network event

On the same day the federal government was sued for its opinion that the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will not hurt endangered species, New England's largest conservation organization released its most emphatic statement to date backing the project.

Massachusetts Audubon Society, which has long voiced conditional support for Cape Wind's plan to build 130 wind turbines in the Sound, announced Friday that the government and the project's developer have met a call the society issued in 2006 for more environmental data before the project is built.
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Click here to read the statement from the Mass Audubon Society on Cape Wind

...Bridgewater residents and business owners who spoke to a Times reporter before yesterday's hearing said the premium cost of Cape Wind electricity would be acceptable if it led to more stable prices in the long term and less dependency on oil.

"That would be worth it, as long as the fee is minimal," said Frank Doyle, as he waited for an order at Cape Cod Cafe on Winter Street.  Doyle, who is a National Grid customer and said he did not feel strongly one way or the other about climate change, argued that the stable rates Cape Wind could provide over the long term make the project desirable.

"It's supposed to be good for the environment," said Scott Bena, owner of Yankee Clipper Barber Shop on Broad Street.  Bena said he pays about $50 a month to keep the lights on in his small shop and about $200 for his home, and he wouldn't mind paying a few dollars more a month for energy from Cape Wind.
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Click here to read this article in the Cape Cod Times

Wind energy along Atlantic seaboard won't need long, expensive transmission lines to supply cities with electric power

WASHINGTON—If Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposed advances for siting offshore windmills are as sleek, transparent and finely tuned as promised, then Cape Wind in Massachusetts won’t be a solo act for too long.
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Editorial from Boston Business Journal (May 21-May 27, 2010)

He's nine years into a regulatory odyssey. His project has been ambushed by political forces near and far.  But the rest of the country has finally caught up to Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind, who had the temerity (and more importantly, the resources) to propose putting 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound. Now he has half of his power sold to National Grid, and construction of the wind farm may begin as soon as the end of the year. This is very good news for Massachusetts and the nation.

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Memo to Cape Wind foes: Enough already

The arguments have been studied, debated, and finally decided. There's only one thing left to do: Move on.
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Click here to read this Tom Keane column in the Boston Globe Magazine