As chief executive of the nonprofit Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Audra Parker has been the face and the voice of those battling to stop the Cape Wind project from building more than 100 turbines in the waters off Cape Cod. She recently met with Globe reporter Erin Ailworth to talk about her love of the Cape and Islands and commitment to fighting Cape Wind’s construction despite regulators’ repeated approvals for the offshore project.
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When Not in My Backyard hypocrites and oil-backed screwballs like Parker use Orwellian terms like "industrial development" to describe a clean energy project, she needs to get called out. The only thing this liar cares about is her own ability to make connections with rich people and her GD view. She doesn't care about the cost of electricity, she doesn't care about sea-birds, or ancient Indian burial grounds, or the safety of airplanes or any of the the other ridiculous made-up, trumped-up reasons to kill this project. Globe: please stop giving this right-wing corporate shill any more ink.
You've clearly never met Audra Parker, Giermund. Cape Wind is a proposed utility scale industrial wind facility that would introduce (130), 420' steel, fiberglass and concrete towers, with 8,000 parts each, to be pile driven into an Essential Fish Habitat, squid spawning ground and Tribal Cultural Property. Audra's late husband was a Native American and fisherman, so the Cape Wind threat to the fishing industry and Sacred Land is personal for her. She recognizes the peril to marine life, for which the developer has a "taking" permit, and has filed suit under the Endangered Species Act against this project to protect wildlife. Audra is also familiar with MA Audubon's testimony to federal regulators that states that their staff scientists arrived at up to 6,600 avian mortalities per year in the North Atlantic Flyway, where endangered species are present, by Cape Wind. Reprehensibly, MA Audubon has conditioned their "support" for Cape Wind on a Cape Wind-funded Adaptive Management Plan, (read contract to count dead birds), that MA Audubon has announced they will implement, "beginning at construction". Cape Wind energy cost is prohibitive at 3-4 times current cost. Yet, the project as specified by the developer in the EIS and Construction Operation Plan (COP) features, "discontinued", "sinking", and, "shifting", and "corroding", wind turbines as deployed offshore UK. http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/29/13018297-cape-wind-is-discontinued-sinking-shifting-and-corroding-by-developers-specifications The Cape Wind project lacks merit with its high cost and failing technology, but not political capital. Read the testimony of the navigators and airports' officials', ferry operators, Senator Ted Kennedy's statements on the Senate floor about Cape Wind hazard to navigation and air travelers, here: http://www.boemre.gov/federalregister/PublicComments/AD71/Barbara%20Durkin%203-18-11.pdf FAA Internal Documents reveal politics trumps public safety threatened by this project: http://stearns.house.gov/uploads/FAA%20Internal%20Documents.pdf There has been no entity treated more favorably by the Boston Globe than Cape Wind. No matter what the cost of this project is to ratepayers, or the cost of its required assembly and staging facilities and transmission would be, the Globe is, and has been all along, an enthusiastic Cape Wind cheerleader. The more one knows about the Cape Wind "no bid" deal for Nantucket Sound, that required Deval Patrick to change the oldest environmental and public protection law in the country, Chapter 91, to allow Cape Wind to leap-frog past their variance requirement during permit review, the less they support this project.
Energy that's not foreign dependent... Makes sense.. So let's trash where we eat and live... Great idea. Bottom line, the developers will make a fortune, cost of electricity won't decrease, and we will have spoiled something amazing. But it's 'green' yeah!!!!!!!
The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound bases its opposition to the windmills on nostalgia for a brief era when those waters were unsullied by grubby industry and became a playground for pleasure boaters and yachtsmen.The APNS ignores history when steamers and sailing vessels carried the traffic of industry through that scenic waterway. It is a pleasing irony that history has come full circle and replaces the sails of the past with today's aerodynamic vanes.
David, The Federally Recognized Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has been the steward of Nantucket Sound for over 10,000 years. This is a far more complex issue than the Alliance's, "...nostalgia for a brief era". The Obama/Patrick Administrations have completely ignored their own Advisors regarding the threats posed to the historic integrity of this amphibious resource upon which local residents depend. Why should a Limitied Liability Corporation be given preferential treatment over the Tribes, or heritage tradesman who put food on our tables? The National Historic Preservation Act established the Advisory Counsel for Historic Preservation ACHP. ACHP is the only entity with the legal responsibility to encourage federal agencies to factor historic preservation into federal project requirements. The ACHP recommends Interior Secretary Salazar deny Cape Wind. (IGNORED) http://www.achp.gov/docs/CapeWindComments.pdf The Tribes are the authority on the Nantucket Sound Tribal Cultural Property issues, and they recommend Salazar deny Cape Wind (more than 25 Federally Recognized Tribes): (IGNORED) http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/82379187.html The State of Massachusetts Historic Preservation Officer's SHPO findings favor the Tribes against Cape Wind: (IGNORED) http://www.house.gov/delahunt/histcommission.pdf The National Parks Service and the Keeper uphold the SHPO findings that favor the Tribes against Cape Wind: (IGNORED) http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/guidance/NantucketSoundDOE.pdf The National Trust for Historic Preservation findings support Mass Historic Commission MHC's opinion, and National Park's Service's determination of Nantucket Sound's National Register eligibility based on information provided by the authority on these matters, the Tribes, and the National Trust rejected Cape Wind. (IGNORED) http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=9186. Noting the extraordinary leap of faith on the part of the largest assembly in the history of our nation of Native American's, President Obama made a promise to have meaningful consultation with Tribes. "Today's conference is not lip service" stated our President, the adopted son of the Crow: (LIP SERVICE-DELIVERED-the Tribes have challenged "meaningful consultation") http://www.ncai.org/Nation-to-Nation-The-United-S.447.0.html
Barbara the cut and paste queen, up and at it again. Whatever I said about Audra Parker goes double for you. "Heritage tradesmen,"
L-O-L! Hee! Oh I'm going to burst! "Tribal cultural propefty issues," O-M-G, L-O-L!! Squid spawning!!! Oh, please stop I'm going to have an accident...Ha, Ha, Snorfle, Snort, Ho, Ho, Hee, Heee!!!
Cape Wind supporters reject the inconvenient truth supported by evidence, lack knowledge, have financial interest, or resort to personal attacks, digress, sans facts, as evidenced.
It is almost amusing how bjdurkin used the term "inconvient truth" in her coal and oil funded attack on clean energy.