Nantucket

Like your blog. Who is going to be on your show this Friday?

I'm not surprised you or your guest that you mentioned don't remember too much of what you discussed re: his time spent in the 70's being a Floyd roadie.

You look a little bit like Chris Elliott.

Your chance to avoid a delivery services surcharge for undersea cable #2 was lost a couple years ago. An organized effort to reduce summer demand and install distributed resources (e.g., on-island solar, bioenergy, wind, and clean fossil systems) could well have done the trick, with a side benefit of reducing or stabilizing power supply costs.

Instead, National Grid upgraded its delivery system, likely with an eye toward someday importing power to the Cape Cod grid from somewhere east or south of Nantucket.

I'm all for that, but I'm not paying that surcharge. What's Nantucket doing to reduce its energy costs, take control of its energy future, and improve its prospects for energy independence?

@Jamie
quoting above...
"I told someone awhile ago, and I still feel this way, that if someone could guarantee that my considerable monthly electric bill would be cut in half if the wind farm was built and put online, then I would gladly consider slaloming on a Steamship Authority fast ferry whilst clogging the engine intakes with the carcasses of the thousands of sea birds killed by the deadly turbine blades."

So in other words youd allow a project to kill thousands of sea birds if only you can save 50-60 dollars a month on your phone Bill. So thats what a dead bird is worth... funny how we will allow such enourmous impacts for a little bit of money... but not allow minimal impacts for a small amount of money...

heavan forbid we do anything just because its the right thing to do

Jamie - Dude, are you smoking crack?

Two things, first why do you need to go 40 knots on a steamship authority fast ferry just to get to/from the island faster? What about the cost in terms of extra fuel?

Second: How/where would you slalom though wind towers? Do the ferries go over the shoal now?

Is this all about economics? Are you more concerned about your electricity bill going down than you are about the possibility to head in a positive direction?

About the blowhards against the wind farm who are talking about the 1 billion dollar fishing industry (Barbara Durkin EGAN/EMC) do you know that a Journal of Science report just came out saying that many species will be extinct by 2050?

Without fish, what are the birds going to eat?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/302/5649/1359

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392689&cat=2_7

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4166849

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s336471.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/25/coral.threat.ap/index.htm

CNN reporting "Seafood gone by 2050?"

So how does fishing relate to the wind farms?

The opponents & some politicians use fishermen/heritage trade/recreational fishing industry/marina operators as examples of industries which would be adversely affected by the wind farm.

These folks in the commercial/recreational fishing business are going to have to take ownership for the fix we are in.

CNN reporting "Seafood gone by 2050?"

So how does fishing relate to the wind farms?

The opponents & some politicians use fishermen/heritage trade/recreational fishing industry/marina operators as examples of industries which would be adversely affected by the wind farm.

These folks in the commercial/recreational fishing business are going to have to take ownership for the fix we are in.

Jamie,
lmc035@gmail.com usually rambles from A to Z without making any sense. Best thing to do is, pat him on the head and send him on is way, it's not worth the time to try and make any sense of anything he writes.

Jamie,
stopcapewind usually rambles from A to Z without making any sense. Best thing to do is, pat him on the head and send him on is way, it's not worth the time to try and make any sense of anything he writes.

Clever Capecodguy, Good to see what I write is so good, you find the need to copy it. Very original.

http://www.cleanpowernow.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=545&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Imco35...you state "These folks in the commercial/recreational fishing business are going to have to take ownership for the fix we are in."

We are trying despite having to wrestle the government gorilla known as NMFS. Longlining and pair trawling have caused the most harm to the worlds stocks. As we speak herring trawlers are committing an ocean rape off the East Coast. Please visit http://www.choircoalition.org/. The public comment period on herring seining will last two more weeks. Your comments will have more weight with the government than the lobby money of the seiners.

Furthermore, many of the overfished stocks are migratory. Many of the bluefin tuna that visit New England in the summer attemt to spawn in the Mediterranean in the winter only to be met by a massive seine fleet that has decimated that species. The European Union countries have overfished for years and made a joke of any ICCAT quotas. The U.S. has been a leader in the conservation and management of migratory species. And a huge majority of the commercial and recreational fishery has supported this effort.