Cape Wind public comments top 40,000

Stinking limousine liberals in Nantucket. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS - WHY DOES EVERYTHING 10 YEARS TO HAPPEN IN TAXACHUSETTS?!?!

I hope Cape Wind fails because the turbines with cost more to maintain than save the enviroment.

Move forward with the wind turbine project off of Cape Cod. The world needs solar, wind, water, geo-thermal and more pollution free power. The human population is increasing faster than the electricity grid can expand. Non-renewable power is polluting, shrinking and getting more and more expensive. The world needs to use up the non-renewable resources soon or stop the argument about the "alternate energy necessity", and just get things in motion. The hidden cost of unhealthy energy will raise health costs quicker than using up all non-renewable energy supposedly will save money that could be used in creating alternative energy.

I can't believe it's taken this long already. A pollutionless energy source that is sorely needed for a litany of reasons, backed by a bond that would pay for their removal upon failure. Arguments? Wrong place. I'm sure these same people would be all for it if it was off the coast of RI....

130 wind turbines would be unsafe, bad for the environment, disrupt bird migration routes and have other consequences which we can't foresee right now. Wind turbines on good choices of land are much preferable! Hydrogen power is the way to go and hopefully the next President will have energy alternatives at the top of the to-do list!

The state needs to expand their tax credit on solar installs to well over the current $1000.00. Maybe double to 2000.00?

Suggestions:

-Read the Cape Wind book.
-Don't vote for politicians that have opposed the project or failed to support it (Kennedy, Kerry, Romney, congressman from Alaska, etc.)
-Identify which company families are behind the opposition and don't use their services.
-Support the local initiatives (EX: http://www.newenglandwind.org/wind/challenge.somerville.php)
-Maintain a family fleet "CAFE" standard higher than gov't requirement. Buy the most green cars you can. Screw the auto makers holding onto the past. If I could afford a tesla, I would buy it in a heartbeat. (truth be told I have not followed this mantra, but will with my next car purchase).
-Stop purchasing foreign shipped goods that are encased in tons of plastic
-Stop shopping a crap-mart, king of all foreign junk encased in tons of plastic.
-Perform energy audits and act on them.
-Participate in recycling program, buy a rain barrel, composter, etc.
-Solar panels?
-How about Massachusetts fixing failing dams, etc. by retrofitting mini hydro-electric plants?

Screw the politicians, old money, etc. If the general public relies upon any of them to solve our problems, it will never happen. I would be curious of those 40K comments if any of the people have actually done anything to help 'save the environment' they are professing to support on either side.

keep Nantucket Sound free of wind turbines. . . would you build a dam in the Grand Canyon because it is renewable energy? Don't be ridiculous. This site belongs to the public. If Cape wind wants to buy some land on the cape and apply to build wind turbines let them try. Also, you can guarantee a steep price in the amount of seabirds dying in those things. . . it happens all the time with hawks, eagles, and other species of raptors that try to fly through existing wind farms. There are better places, and better ways to go about doing this.

Any knowledgeable person who has watched "A Crude Awakening", the documentary will know that we are running out of nonrenewable sources of oil. We use oil for everything from pharmaceuticals to clothing, to fertilizer, to plastics. We are foolishly wasting this resource on transportation and energy when we should be doing all we can to start up alternative sources of energy. The cape wind project should be approved without further delay as should myriad other projects to save oil and natural gas.

Cape Wind would have no effect whatsoever on greenhouse gases. Since wind power is intermittent, it relies on fossil fuels in order to operate and would not only not take any fossil fuel plants off line, it will actually cause more to be built. Since Cape Wind was proposed that company itseslf has actually proposed two more fossil fuel burning power plants for the State of MA! Cape Wind is a feel good sham, even the developer knows it.

For Commenter # 8 There is a dam in the Grand Canyon---Glen Canyon Dam controls the flow in the Colorado River.

We can either support wildlife or the introduction of Cape Wind's turbines exactly where they would cause the most harm. Wind turbines historically kill birds in unacceptable numbers when they are sited in migratory flyways, areas where endangered species are present, and in Important Bird Areas IBA like Nantucket Sound.

MA Audubon’s “Challenge”, Cape Wind support condition, the publci and agency acceptance of Adaptive Management "monitoring" and "mitigation”, "sets in motion an adaptive management process that would be doomed to failure".

USFWS Cape Wind MMS DEIS comments indicate that MA Audubon's Adaptive Management AM condition of their support for Cape Wind is fatally flawed.

MA Audubon notoriously participates in the collection and analysis of avian data, while providing their comments on Cape Wind, as a self appointed Cape Wind permit review agency. They continue to wield their wide influence to gain support for the Cape Wind project. While MA Audubon staff scientists’ arrived at up to 6,600 avian mortalities per year by Cape Wind in MA Audubon’s testimony to the USACE on the Cape Wind DEIS.

MA Audubon's "Challenge" calls for monitoring and mitigation techniques that do not exist to reduce risk to wildlife by Cape Wind towers post construction. The implementation of AM is handled by service contract. MA Audubon provides the AM contract term length in “Challenge” “beginning at the construction phase and continuing for at least three years post-construction”.

Monitoring and mitigation service, payable by Cape Wind and others if Cape Wind is permitted, represents a future AM contract value of approximately $8 million dollars if Cape Wind is permitted and construction begins.

MA Audubon's top brass, Jack Clarke and Taber Allison, refuse to admit that AM is handled by service contract as the future $8 million dollar contract condition of their support for Cape Wind.

Adaptive Management "monitoring" is counting bird carcasses. AM "mitigation" is theory disproven in Altamont, CA., (measures taken to date to reduce harm to wildlife post-construction have not been effective).

We need transparency of process in this environmental review of Cape Wind.

www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=3686

Very good article! Thank you, master!

I gotta say that is a good post

How does that make sense? That last comment was rubbish