The president of the company developing the Cape Wind project said today that he hoped that the controversial offshore wind farm could begin generating power within a year, now that the company has received a favorable decision in the state’s highest court. “Today is a really big day for Cape Wind, but it’s an even bigger day for clean energy in Massachusetts,” said Jim Gordon, whose company hopes to build a field of whirling wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. “This moves the project forward.” Gordon commented after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave its blessing to a novel power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and National Grid that was approved by the state Department of Public Utilities.
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All of those liberals who fear global climate change because of fossil fuel emissions should applaud this court ruling.
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It is time that the Boston Globe assumes its mantle of New England's paper of record and sends a couple of its ace reproters to Denmark and England to delve into the consumption side of offshore wind electricity production. How much do users of the product in those nations pay monthly, and how do those payments compare with costs to customers of traditional land-based powerplants, even those that are spun by wind? There are lots of details that have not been broadly spread to a Massachusetts and New England market for this Cape Wind electricity - information about fish studies, interference with vessel navigation of both a recreational and commercial sort, difficulties with maintaining individual windmills and the cables that carry their output, etc., etc. And, if there is a built-in 3.5% annual price increase built into the National Grid-Cape Wind contract, is that firm for the entire 15-year duration of the contract, or is there a clause allowing a larger price hike if inflation declared by the federal government rises above the 3.5%?? Lastly, given the difficulties with power availability in this region that have been cropping up too frequently in recent years, what does this wonderful National Grid-Cape Wind deal spell out if weather or some other natural disaster cuts off the energy supply from the Cape Wind generators? Is National Grid bound to have a Plan B electric supply available immediately?
AIM spokesman Mr. Lord today criticized the Court's decision to sanction the utilities' rate increase as an irresponsible slight to consumers in today's economic climate. A group of penny-pinching CEOs today are afraid of even the slightest loss to their flow of profits that they are willing to induce fear and sacrifice the environment.