The Obama Administration has approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm in the Cape Cod, Massachusetts area.
Ken Salazar, Secretary of the United States Interior Department, has approved the Cape Cod wind project that will put 130 turbines in Nantucket sound. The project is estimated to cost $1 billion and will be funded .
“I find that the public benefits weigh in favor of approving the Cape Wind project at the Horseshoe Shoal location,” Salazar said in an announcement at the State House in Boston. “With this decision we are beginning a new direction in our Nation’s energy future, ushering in America’s first offshore wind energy facility and opening a new chapter in the history of this region.”
The benefits of off shore wind power have been debated for nearly a decade, and Salazar’s approval will bring several hundred construction jobs and similar projects in the waters off Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island.
Maryland Energy Administration Director Malcolm Woolf said the Cape Wind decision is “huge.”
“I think it is a boost to renewable energy in the nation,” Woolf said in an article published Wednesday in the Baltimore Sun , “and it will accelerate offshore wind in the Mid-Atlantic as well.”
Woolf added that the real challenge is to get steel in the ground and turbines spinning.
For more information, visit www.capewind.org and learn more about this new and exciting clean energy that will provide energy for years to come.
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I am all for wind energy, but not on Indian sacred land. Why not use the places they plan on off shore drilling.
Hi Ethan,
Great story on this wind farm project, I live in Massachusetts and this project has been thrown back and forth for a decade it seems. Main objections were from the folks who live along the coast and there was the late state senator Ted Kennedy who wouldnt let this project materalize . The fact there would be some jobs created to install these towers and turbines the fact remains that all of the propsed wind farms that to be built across the US should have turbines that are manufactured in the USA.. We should build these in Michigan,Indiana or any other place that needs the jobs and already has the facilities in place to do so. This is where this is wrong!
I hope the Cape will benifit from this project and show the way for other areas to follow.
StandingStones (Sean)
On offshore drilling plateforms??? As if thoses thing dont explode enught by themselves, you want to add thoses use things who can crash anytime on them, especially in zone famous for it's hurricanes? You really need to have something like Obama to approuve a thing like that.
And who is going to maintains thoses in the middle of the sea? Aquaman? Not talking about the energy transmission that requieres cables running on the sea bed. You know: thoses that are cut evryday by the fishermans anchor and deep nets…..
Also, those cables will naturally generate an EM field that will totaly fuxxor the inner radar of any marine life. IMHO, wont be long until the first whales begin to land on beach evrywhere around, well, if they survive the oil leak that is
And let's not talk about the obvious terrorist attractor effect, man, greenpeace is going to love this..
and all the ben ladin wannabees….
My "New Beach Order" is far superior, and will be exposed later on a video.
Meow.
all i can say is it's about time some sort of decision has been made one way or the other. Alot of our issues seem to get tossed back and forth for decades before anything or nothing gets done. now they can move onto the next thing they have left in limbo.