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This [Cape Wind project] is precisely the kind of renewable energy that pretty much every Earth Day speech since 1970 has demanded that we develop. Now that it's finally here, though--now that we're talking about particular windmills in particular places, not abstract and squeaky clean 'wind power'--people aren't so sure...But I've given my share of Earth Day speeches, and seen the effect they had. Sooner or later you've got to do something.
-- Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature |
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Spare taxpayers these useless anti-wind suits
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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."
Note: Click here to read this Op Ed in the Cape Cod Times |
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