Cape Wind: One Step Closer!

Last week, CapeCodToday published ---
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Mass, Energy Facility Siting Board votes unanimous approval
Cape Wind's application for a composite certificate is granted
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In what was obviously the state's eagerness to start the Nantucket Sound wind farm project sooner, the major state agency, the Energy Facility Siting Board, cast a unanimous vote this afternoon to give Cape Wind Associates all the outstanding permits needed for the renewable energy project.
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The "Super Permit", as it is called, overturns a Cape Cod Commission procedural denial of the project.
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Several days earlier, AP reported --

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A $1 billion project to erect 130 giant wind turbines off Cape Cod has long been opposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who has argued it would kill birds, endanger sea life and imperil the area's tourism and fishing industries. The state's Democratic governor, Deval Patrick supports it.

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In fairness, Senator Kennedy and family have argued NIMBY, along with wealthy Dirty Energy opponents to Cape Wind. Let's not muddy their opposition with environmental issues.

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The time for Cape Wind was 8 years ago, Senator. You can't be pro-environment and continue to support DIRTY ENERGY.

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Footnote: One of the comments on CapeCodToday supported and promoted nuclear energy.

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Energy is a complex topic that each of us needs to re-consider before we continue to accept preconceived notions that are outdated or promotional political rhetoric.

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Private investors have long since ceased investing in new nuclear power plants. That's why the Nuclear Industry continues to lobby and demand federal loan guarantees. The cost of storage for that radioactive waste is paid for by taxpayers.

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....nuclear power sector has spent at least $953 million lobbying Congress

That money helped the industry to meet most of the goals laid out at the 1998 forum and win tens of billions of dollars in new subsidies. All told, the nuclear power sector has secured more than $100 billion in federal support, at least $25 billion of it in the last four years alone, ....

In October 2007, Moody’s Investor Services piled on with a report projecting that new reactors would cost $5,000 to $6,000 per kilowatt to build, or up to $12 billion per unit.....

Moody’s, ... now predicts

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new nuclear power plants will cost

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$7,500 per kilowatt to build

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That’s more than double the capital costs for solar power and three and a half times the cost for wind.

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