Project Supporters

Groups from across the Cape & Islands, Massachusetts and the United States have come out in support of the Cape Wind project. Below is a partial list of organizations and individuals that have issued statements of qualified support of the Cape Wind project pending a thorough and fair permitting review. To add your group to this list, please contact us at info@capewind.org.

Local Citizens Groups

Clean Power Now members rally at an Army Corps of Engineers public meeting.

• Clean Power Now
  
• Vineyarders for Clean Power
  
• Islanders for Wind Power (Nantucket)

Environmental Organizations

• Boston Climate Action Network
  
• Cape & Islands Self Reliance (pdf)
  
• Clean Water Action (pdf)
  
• Clean Air-Cool Planet (pdf)
  
• Envirocitizen
  
• Environmental League of Massachusetts (pdf)
  
• Green Decade Coalition (pdf)
  
• Greenpeace USA
  
• Maine Interfaith Power and Light (pdf)
  
• Massachusetts Climate Action Network
  
• Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light
  
• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
  
• Regional Environmental Council (pdf)
  
• Religious Witness For the Earth
  
• African American Environmentalist Association
  
• Toxics Action Center
  
• Sustainable South Shore
  
• The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
  In addition, the following environmental organizations support the ongoing environmental impact review through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA)
  
• Conservation Law Foundation
  
• Masspirg
  
• Natural Resources Defense Council
  
• Cape & Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative (pdf)
  
• American Rivers
  
• Friends of the Earth
  
• People's Power and Light (pdf)
  
• Union of Concerned Scientists
  
• World Wildlife Fund

Health Organizations

• American Lung Association - Massachusetts Chapter (pdf)
  
• American Lung Association - Maine Chapter (pdf)
  
• Cape Clean Air (pdf)
  
• Boston Urban Asthma Coalition
  
• Citizens Action Network
  
• Healthlink (pdf)
  
• Pilgrim Watch (pdf)

Civic, Business, and Labor Organizations

• Cape Cod Area League of Women Voters (pdf)
  
• Massachusetts Parent Teacher Association - PTA (pdf)
  
• American Wind Energy Association
  
• The Apollo Alliance (pdf)
  
• American Council on Renewable Energy (pdf)
  
• Coalition for Social Justice (pdf)
  
• Cape Cod Internet Council
  
• Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
  
• Mass Energy Consumers Alliance
  
• Competitive Power Coalition of New England, Inc. (pdf)
  
• Bareboat Sailing Charters
  
• Seafarers International Union (pdf)
  
• Maritime Trades Council (pdf)
  
• New England Regional Council of Carpenters, Pile Drivers Local Union 56
  
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103
  
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 223
  
• International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers
  
• Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America, Local 201

Academic and Scientific Leaders and Institutions

• Woods Hole Research Center
  
• Dr. George Woodwell, Global Climate Expert
  
• Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature"
  
• Ross Gelbspan, author of "The Heat is On"
  
• Annie Dillard, author of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  
• Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute
  
• Dr. Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
  
• Dr. Helen Caldicott, Pediatrician and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility (pdf)
  
• William Shutkin, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• Harlyn O. Halverson, Director of Policy Center for Marine Bioscience and Technology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (pdf)
  
• Dr. James Manwell, Renewable Energy Resource Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (pdf)
  
• Dr. Richard Payne, Oceanographer Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (pdf)
  
• Susan Tierney, Former Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Former Assistant Secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Energy (pdf)
  
• Jane Mead, Former Project Review Coordinator for the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (pdf)
  
• Arthur Puglsey, Former Senior Environmental Analyst with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (pdf)
  
• Jay Wickersham, Former Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Former Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (pdf)
  
• John DeVillars, former New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (pdf)
  

Towns and Elected Officials

• Town of Truro (pdf)
  
• Town of Lenox
  
• Town of Westport
  
• George D. Bryant, Provincetown Representative, Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates
  
• Daniel Horgan, Selectman, Town of Yarmouth
  
• Bruce Gibson, Selectman, Town of Harwich
  
• Kendall Farrar, Selectman, Town of Orleans
  
• Donald L. Carcieri - Rhode Island Governor (pdf)
  
• Daniel E. Bosley, Chair - Massachusetts House Committee on Government Regulations (pdf)
  
• Michael W. Morrissey - Massachusetts State Senator, Norfolk and Plymouth County (pdf)
  
• John J. Binienda, Chair - Massachusetts House Committee on Energy (pdf)
  
• Susan C. Fargo - Massachusetts State Senator, 3rd Middlesex District (pdf)
  
• Jarrett T. Barrios - Massachusetts State Senator, Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex County
  
• Matthew Patrick - Massachusetts State Representative, 3rd Barnstable District (pdf)
  
• Robert Koczera - Massachusetts State Representative, 11th Bristol District (pdf)
  
• Frank Smizik - Massachusetts State Representative, 15th Norfolk District (pdf)
  
• Doug Peterson - Massachusetts State Representative, 8th Essex District
  
• Anne M. Paulson - Massachusetts State Representative, 24th Middlesex District
  
• James Eldridge - Massachusetts State Representative, 37th Middlesex District
  
• Paul Donato - Massachusetts State Representative, 35th Middlesex District (pdf)
  
• Patricia Jehlen - Massachusetts State Representative, 27th Middlesex District
  
• Peter Larkin - Former Massachusetts State Representative, 3rd Berkshire District (pdf)
  
• Paul Demakis - Former Massachusetts State Representative, 8th Suffolk District (pdf)

College and University Organizations

• Brown University Environmental Action Network
  
• Harvard University Environmental Action Committee
  
• Columbia University Earth Coalition
  
• Northeastern Students for Environmental Action
  
• Tufts Environmental Consciousness Outreach
  
• Ecopledge of Boston College
  
• Boston College Environmental Action Coalition
  
• Colgate University's Students for Environmental Action
  
• Boston University's Environmental Student Organization
  
• Constructive Activists' Club of Unity College, Maine
  
• University of Pennsylvania Environmental Group
  
• University of Rhode Island Renewable Energy Club
  
• Pennsylvania State Environmental Society
  
• Providence College Environmental Club

Local Citizens and Community Leaders

• Dan Wolf, President and CEO Cape Air
  
• John Bullard, President of the Sea Education Association and former mayor of New Bedford
  
• Walter Brooks, Editor & Publisher, Best Read Guide, Cape Cod TODAY & eCape.com
  
• Chris Fried, Martha's Vineyard resident, engineer and sailor
  
• Ed Mangiafico, Cape Cod resident and former Chairman of May Company
  
• Richard Elrick, resident of Centerville and ferry boat captain
  
• Dr. Anna A. Manatis-Lornell, M.D.
  
• Dr. Bruce Schwoegler, Meteorologist
  
• Dr. Malcolm A. MacGregor, Director of Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
  
• and many, many more...

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Newspapers that have written favorable editorials on Cape Wind

• The Boston Globe
  
• The Boston Herald
  
• The Berkshire Eagle
  
• The Boston Phoenix
  
• The New Bedford Standard-Times
  
• The Providence Journal
  
• The Patriot-Ledger
  
• USA Today

Several representatives from towns where EMI has previously developed power projects have written letters of support that focus on the community’s experience in working with EMI.