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Cape blind A failure of leadership in the wind	Erik Hoffner	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This recently appeared in Wendy Williams' blog. She is coauthor of the book Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound, now out in paperback -- a fascinating and horrifying read. ----- I've been giving lots of talks about Cape Wind around the country, and I can tell you -- the American people are getting really angry. Both Democrats and Republicans are equally disgusted by what they read in our book about Cape ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Kennedy clan vs. clean power Your last chance to be heard about Cape Wind	Charles Komanoff	19 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A friend once described Nantucket Sound as a body of water surrounded on three sides by money. The outcome of the six-year-long effort to use a small part of that water to house a 130-turbine, 468-megawatt wind farm -- still the largest proposed renewable-energy project in the eastern U.S. -- will help determine whether we, as a nation, are serious about confronting the climate crisis.The federal agency in charge of the formal review of the Cape Wind project, the Mi ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind comments Agency holds hearings for Massachusetts wind project, extends comment period 30 days	Erik Hoffner	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Heads up! The Minerals Management Service is extending the public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement for Cape Wind for an additional 30 days, until April 21. Leave your loving or loathing feedback here or attend one of four hearings this week in Mass. and give your opinion in person: Monday, March 10, West Yarmouth Tuesday, March 11, Nantucket Wednesday, March 12, Martha's Vineyard Thursday, March 13, Boston The ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

Caping By Cape Wind project given preliminary environmental approval		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:58 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Seems it was only October that the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound was dealt a setback. Now here it is January, and the wind farm that NIMBYs love to hate is inching forward, having been given preliminary environmental approval from the Minerals Management Service. After a public comment period, the final fate of the project is expected to be announced later this year. source ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind on track Draft EIS for Nantucket Sound wind project is positive	Erik Hoffner	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Mineral Management Service's Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Cape Wind project is just out, and so far looks very positive, finding no environmental reasons to halt the project as it is envisioned. On a conference call this afternoon, a spokesman for Cape Wind stated that 'any rational observer reading this report' will deduce that this project will not produce adverse environmental impacts. The devil is in the details, of course, and he acknowledg ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

Big Coal, anti-wind Coal industry insider tapped to kill Cape Wind	Erik Hoffner	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Those trying to stop what would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, Cape Wind, have just hired (another!) coal industry insider to lead the charge. Glenn Wattley is the new director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, and as Wendy Williams details in her blog, he's a longtime coal and coal-gasification proponent. She says that this fits with her past reporting: Big Coal is behind many anti-wind efforts. In a news report on Wattley's new role (rich rea ...
Topics: coal, energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

The Daily Show makes a meal of Cape Wind opponents Watch a video outlining the conflict over this wind farm	Erik Hoffner	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
"Nantucket Sound, blessed with a vast diversity of native life ... " Update, 11 Sep 2007: The video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc., unfortunately.
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, TV, wind power (all these topics)

Wind-loss, wind-gain	Erik Hoffner	25 May 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of last week's apparent defeat of the proposed Hoosac Wind project in mountainous Western Massachusetts due to environmental (wetland) concerns, Massachusetts' new governor has put his voice behind further offshore wind projects. The timing is interesting. We already knew Governor Patrick supports Cape Wind, the final permitting for which is now up to the feds. Details are sketchy yet on what he proposes for further offshore projects, but it sounds like a ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

Massachusetts Passes Wind Cape Wind gets state OK, boosting chances it will get built		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Massachusetts Passes Wind Cape Wind gets state OK, boosting chances it will get built If you're not up on the history of the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, here's the brief version: It's alive! It's dead! It's alive! It's dead! Repeat. Our news today: It's alive! Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) administration declared Friday that the proposed 130-turbine offshore-wind project would do mo ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind found 'adequate' May become U.S.'s first large offshore wind project	Erik Hoffner	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This just in: the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has weighed in on Cape Wind's Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), saying that it 'adequately and properly complies' with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act. The project can now advance to the state permitting process. I believe it is the first U.S. offshore wind project to have a certified final environmental impact document.
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind passes new hurdle It's not the view: it's the vision	Erik Hoffner	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
The most likely candidate for becoming the U.S.'s first offshore wind farm reached another permitting milestone by filing its Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) on February 15 with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office. It's now available, and it's meaty. It makes two important points to the Marine Mineral Service, which now oversees the process. If the permit is denied, it will a) result in higher costs to Massachusetts citizens, since the sta ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

To Everything, Tern, Tern, Tern Buzzards Bay wind farm faces tough obstacles		21 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
To Everything, Tern, Tern, Tern Buzzards Bay wind farm faces tough obstacles Amidst the hype over the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, developer Jay Cashman unveiled a proposal to erect up to 120 wind turbines in nearby Buzzards Bay. But a recent report by Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs Stephen Pritchard concludes that Cashman's project would violate state law and could threaten an ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

A Long and Windy Road Compromise in Congress keeps Cape Wind project above water		22 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
A Long and Windy Road Compromise in Congress keeps Cape Wind project above water The beleaguered Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound is keeping its head above water, thanks to good old-fashioned compromise. A provision to allow the Massachusetts governor to veto the planned wind project was holding up a Coast Guard reauthorization bill in Congress; a new version of the legislation drops th ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Kennedy You Hear Me Now? Another wind-power project proposed for Massachusetts waters		24 May 2006	Daily Grist
Kennedy You Hear Me Now? Another wind-power project proposed for Massachusetts waters Wind-power developers can't get enough of Massachusetts, it seems. Nantucket Sound has the contentious Cape Wind project; now a new wind farm is being proposed for nearby Buzzards Bay. The South Coast Offshore Wind project would consist of three clusters of 30 to 40 turbines each, up to 450 feet high, from two to four miles offsho ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, wind power (all these topics)

Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support The controversial Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound has found new allies in a strange place: the Bush administration. On Thursday, Undersecretary of Energy David Garman sent a letter urging Congress to drop a measure that would allow the Massachusetts governor (currently Mitt Romney, a Cape Wind ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

A Low Blow Congressional committee OKs amendment to kill Cape Wind project		10 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
A Low Blow Congressional committee OKs amendment to kill Cape Wind project The Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound may have blown its final ... may have been blown ... in a gust of ... oh, never mind. We're out of wind puns, and the proposed offshore wind farm is out of steam: If a recent, sneaky effort in Congress succeeds, the project will die once and for all. A congressional conference committee att ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Jilting at Windmills Measure in Congress could kill Cape Wind project		04 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Jilting at Windmills Measure in Congress could kill Cape Wind project The Cape Wind project on Nantucket Sound may soon receive another blow -- oh, we're so funny! -- if Congress passes an amendment giving Massachusetts power to veto the controversial wind farm if it would interfere with navigation. Of course, it depends on what the definition of "navigation" is, but Gov. Mitt Romney (R) would ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

The Wind and the Willful RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jan 2006	Muckraker
A long-simmering disagreement within the environmental community over a plan to build a massive wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., is now boiling over into a highly public quarrel. The future of Nantucket Sound? Photo: NREL. The four-year-old battle started heating up last summer when Greenpeace USA staged a demonstration against well-known eco-activist Robe ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics, wind power (all these topics)

No More Mr. Nice Guy Climate change is pushing this easygoing enviro over the edge	Bill McKibben	12 Jan 2006	Soapbox
The one and only time I ever saw my mother become aggressive in public went like this. We were out as a family for a weekend leaf-peeping drive, an impulse apparently shared by most of the rest of New England, because the traffic along New Hampshire's Kancamagus Highway was endless 90-degree gridlock. Every once in a while, however, somebody would zoom happily by in the breakdown lane. ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position	Lisa Hymas	06 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm		15 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has been blowing hard against wind power, a position that's mystified both his Senate colleagues and wind-industry advocates. Alexander introduced an energy bill earlier this year that included grants for solar and other sources of clean power, as well as incentives for "clean ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, Tennessee, wind power (all these topics)

A Shore Thing		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Shore Thing Controversy is bubbling along the East Coast of the U.S. as a handful of companies press forward with plans to build offshore wind turbines -- 858 off the Maryland shore, 221 off Virginia, and 130 off Cape Cod, Mass. There are now some 15,000 wind turbines on U.S. land, providing clean, renewable power and decreasing U.S. dependence on fore ...
Topics: East Coast, energy, green living, Maryland, Massachusetts, renewable energy, Virginia, wind power (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Wind Bags		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wind Bags The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to technological improvements. Under the revised plan, Cape Wind Associates would build 130 rather than 170 wind turbines over 24 rather than 28 square miles of ocean. The resulting project would still p ...
Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, wind power (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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