Tue, 06 Mar 2007
KRISTYN ECOCHARD

Cape Wind's president and Chief Executive Officer Jim Gordon is confident the five-year battle to construct the first U.S. offshore wind farm is coming to a close.It's a slow, arduous process but we are developing the first offshore wind project in America and in a sense we are helping to evolve the regulatory framework, he said. Gordon, whose group submitted a draft environmental impact statement last month, expects a final approval from the Minerals Management Services by the end of 2007 or first quarter of 2008.


The second draft EIS submitted to MMS in February will be responded to in MMS's draft that EIS expects will be released in April. Afterward, pending provisional MMS approval, a final EIS will be submitted by Cape Wind and, in turn, a final EIS from MMS. For five years, the project has undergone an evolving permitting and regulatory process involving 17 federal and state agencies.

More than $15 million has been spent by the Cape Wind opposition and more is expected to be spent on an appeal

A study released in September 2005 by the Department of Energy validated there's 900,000 megawatts of offshore wind potential off the coast of the United States with 330,000 from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Right now, the total installed generation capacity of the United States is 900,000 megawatts. A more recent study done by Massachusetts Institute of Technology also confirmed the potential of offshore wind power in the mid-Atlantic states.

 

not in Zinzin's back yard you don't!

 

Not exactly. Even though our two senators snd the new govenor are against it (possibly because they are "neighbors" ) but because Barney Frank after changing his mind over a two year period and broadcasting the fact,, good vibes are starting to happen. They are now with the help of MIT drawing plans for underwater generators in the vicinity of the wind farms to harness the rise and fall and change in direction of the tides which are considerable here. As much as four to six knots in the C.C. Canal.
Also the local papers are finally exposing the "expert" knowledge of the protesters. Only dark spotare the new facts about the wind farms screwing up the radar returns from the military airfield at "Otis."

 

what is the housing market like?
this installation seems to be a go and i rather move there than to
Costa Rica for the wind farm contruction down there.
i'm getting rusty since the Palms Spring White Water projects ended.



i may be calling you "neighboor"

but then, you got them winter and blizzard events?
hmmm ... re-evaluating

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Patrick says state wants clean-energy business

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick reaffirmed his support for what he called the "complicated"
Cape Wind energy project yesterday, saying he wants to create jobs in the Bay State by encouraging
growth of the clean-energy industry


Sierra Club Executive Director backs Cape Wind process
Saturday, March 03, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC -- February 28, 2007 -- The Executive Director of the 700,000-member Sierra
Club on Tuesday criticized opponents of the Cape Wind wind power project slated for Nantucket Sound
and endorsed the process

Air Force: Wind Farm would not affect PAVE PAWS
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

The U.S. Air Force Space Command has checked and re-checked and still says a proposed wind farm
on Nantucket Sound would not affect its PAVE PAWS radar station in Sagamore.
“Everything that the Air Force Space Command is saying indicates that they [the turbines] would not be tall
enough to interfere with operations,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Gentry, commander of the Air Force 6th
Space Warning Squadron, Cape Cod Air Force Station, the group responsible for running the radar facility.