Reminiscent of Sen Ted Stephen's 2005 effort (which ultimately failed thanks to thousands of phone calls) to derail the review process for Cape Wind, Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) is attempting to block the Final Environmental Impact … [Read more...]
Wind will power our future
The DOE further states that increasing the use of wind power to supply 20 percent of the nation's electricity would reduce carbon dioxide emissions (that contribute to climate change) from the electricity generation sector by 25 percent … [Read more...]
Wind farms vs. unclean energy
A couple of wind-related items today ... First, Terry Murray takes care of business and sets the table to zone our oceans. This will hopefully give us some regulatory clarity for wind farm development and fishing vs. preservation. Good … [Read more...]
What’s Next for Climate Change?
(my first post!) With the Cape Wind hearings being over, and recent posts about "What's Next?" it might be time for a what's next on Global Warming, which is going to be given a huge push at Massachusetts Power Shift , April … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Overwhelmingly Wants Cape Wind, So does Ogo
Republican Jim Ogonowski, after touring UMass Lowell last week and seeing some of the research being done on renewable energy, came out in favor of the Cape Wind project. He challenged his Democratic opponent Niki Tsongas to join him in … [Read more...]
Cape Wind public hearing Thu. 3/13 at UMass Boston
So the federal government's open comment period on Cape Wind is coming to a close. The Minerals Management Service is taking comments until March 20, and there are a number of public hearings this week. Public Hearing: Draft … [Read more...]
Putting the pressure on Markey to support Cape Wind (updated)
Markey's office invites his constituents in ... with coffee and doughnuts for all. "We'd rather have his support!" said a number of folks ... but they still ate the doughnuts.Markey staffer Mark Gallagher addresses the group, … [Read more...]
Federal Agency: Cape Wind is all good.
Hot diggity! From Cape Wind's press release: BOSTON, MA -- Cape Wind passed a major milestone today at the start of its final year of permitting with the release of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) from the lead Federal … [Read more...]
Cape Wind in the bottleneck — again?
How many more field goals does Cape Wind need to kick before they stop moving the goalposts? As we've often been warned by our pro-Cape Wind friend Peter Porcupine, we see that the Cape Cod Commission (the regional planning body) is set to … [Read more...]
Cape Wind vs Coal Guy
Good gravy ... how's this for "optics"?The anti-Cape Wind group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, has tapped "coal industry insider" Glenn Wattley as its new head, according to the Cape Cod Times. Here's a PowerPoint (in … [Read more...]
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