Against the Wind

Magical...thanks for the post and info.

My bride and I have called the numbers and they were very courteous and thankful.

Let's hope they can find the proper home for this project and if not we will all survive until a real solution is found.

I bet there are lots of fish beneath that structure...cant wait to go fishing

capeguy...you won't be able to wade that far.

And if it is properly sited you will be swimming for days.

Be careful at Bearses Shoal as I saw a huge Great White and a very large Mako there last summer.

If you need assistance in your journey please type in www.capecodtoday/rescue.com and if you get no reply keep swimming, praying, and in your last moments you will not see a beam of white light from the heavens.

Just the image of Jim G with a smile on his face.

Capeguy:

Perhaps you have not heard about the SAFETY ZONE typically imposed by off shore wind plant developers, who take fishing grounds away from the fishermen who use them, and then lease them back to fishermen.

I'm sure that you recognize, as the developers do, that there are far more bennies in this game than RPS's and PTC's. I feel a need to remind you that when it comes to payment/leasing terms, this project of 24 square miles, would be reduced to less than one acre!!! Such a deal for Cape Wind!!!

There is a bit of inconsistency in this type of SAFETY ZONE restriction, when you consider how "safe" off shore wind plants are said to be...by the developers that is.

Maverick, I've given up on you. If a fisherman can't support a project that would cuts mercury in fish, while helping repopulate the stocks, you are beyond any reason I can think of.

Barbra, read the agreement proposed, it is a right of use, Jim Gordon would own nothing in and around the windfarm, just the right to put the monopoles in the sand. Do you stay up late at night thinking of the evil Jim Gordon is plotting???

Magic, I still have some hope for you. I mean, sure, you think the Audubon society may have jumped the gun by waiting a few years for research instead of heresay, but someday I think you'll see how making an undebated admendment targeted only at cape wind is nothing other than our political process gone horribly wrong.

I believe that's why even the newest admendment is off the table now because it speaks so loudly of corruption.

If it were passed, it would be thrown out as being a law specifically prohibiting 1 windfarm, or giving a state jurisdiction over federal land.

Truth to windfarm haters, you've used up this decades worth of misinformation.

Barbara
If Cape Wind is built theres no way they can or will restrict access through the windfarm, the permitt would be only for the area the turbine actually occupies. However they would restrict tying up to the the individual turbines unless its am emergency. Dont want those pesky Alliance liberal wackos spray painting their propoganda across those clean turbines.

Does anyone else see the humor in all this...

Millionaries in beachfront McMansions with big docks and boats claiming they want to save the environment...

Other millionaries trying to build a high seas powerplant claiming to be green...

People claiming we shouldn't give away our public waterways for private gain at the same time they tie up their boats at private marinas filling our harbors ...

People fighting to save the Sound while doing nothing to combat global warming and rising seas, which will ultimately solve this problem...no one will be able to see the windmills from their beachhouses in the Berkshires.

Advocates of 'clean, light industry' on the Silicon Sandbar who fight a new technology that might provide our kids with decent jobs, so they don't have to work at a nursing home or one of the big box stores the washashores need because they had them at 'home'.

Anti-CW folks who are so concerned about the birds, but who will fight for the right to anchor on our barrier beaches weekends and drink beer, to the detriment of nesting areas for those same birds.

Here here Coddah.. The hypocrisy is so thick its actually funny...

Coddah...this battle may be fought between millionaires but they are in the minority versus us common folk that want to preseve Nantucket Sound.

We need the millions to offset the same amount of money spent by CPN and other lobbyists.

What does Cape Wind have to do with the solution to this comment by you..."
Advocates of 'clean, light industry' on the Silicon Sandbar who fight a new technology that might provide our kids with decent jobs, so they don't have to work at a nursing home or one of the big box stores the washashores need because they had them at 'home'."

Might provide? Are you on the payroll at CPN. Sounds like it.

CapeGuy...please feel free to answer the same question.

A big box and wind factory soon to be in your backyard. Really no difference between the two.

Enjoy them.

Yes, Maverick, "might provide." The project has to get approved first, remember? Might happen, might not.

Maverick,

I am undecided on the project, but wanted to point out the hypocracy of some of the players.

My family has been here for 300 yrs. Historically, our bays and harbors were much more utilitarian, filled with commercial activities that most of the "anti" folks would be screaming about if they still occurred. Hell, you can't shellfish near the McMansions now without a call to the police.

Cape Codders have tried just about anything to make a living...fishing, farming, shipbuilding, saltworks, cranberry bogs, whaling, canal building...none very environmentally friendly...and windmills were everywhere along the waterfront only a 100 years ago.

Since overdevelopment has killed many of the traditional occupations, what is our future? Catering to senior citizens and rich second home owners? The natives need something other than low paying service industry work to survive...

So, I'll accept some scenic blight if it will help save us from rising oceans and provide some decent jobs...the question is how much blight is acceptable? That is still to be answered.

C.B. Freeman... Very nice posts. A voice of reason & and a gentleman as well.

Hang in there... It will come.

My best.

Coddah... Hyannis resident: George B. Kelley was a neighbor and a friend... An authentic Coddah no doubt.

We miss him.

I would bet... Knowing his affinity for 'Yankee' ethic & preservation...

He is 'looking down' upon us and wishing Cape Wind... A speedy approval and fruition.

And... An end to the hysteria & misinformation cast about by those who fear to see...

Perhaps...

The common good we may all share.

And possibly... New friendships a surprising result.

Nice to see you are open to possibilities.

Remain hopeful.

Sorry... 'Tis S.P. - Lost my ID.

Back later.

We knew it was you.

We don't need Dick Tracy to spot the diction.

Honeymoon over?

Coddah, I heard this little down to earth piece of wisdom yesterday. "We should not be building this is in the last possible place, first".

The majority of people arent against the windfarm... most people dont care either way. Its us diehards that make the most noise...smile

Barbara
Big box developments are here to stay..why?? because they are they most economical... do I like they?? not really... but thats the Capilalist society we live in.