Apr 11, 2005 |
Wind Farms could prevent 100 coal-fired generating plants
Cape Wind would set example for others
The success of the wind power project in Nantucket Sound may be crucial to our country’s future.
Currently there are 100 coal-fired generating plants proposed for construction. This would be catastrophic for the health of our children. Scientific information informing us of climatic change due to burning of fossil fuels is dismissed only by those with a monetary interest in maintaining the present course.
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. If we did our skyline would not be disturbed by our activity. Look about and you see church spires and communication towers. Wind turbines should be part of the mix.
Our present course subsidizes oil and gas companies in the form of yearly tax expenditures in depletion allowances, road building and accounting practices that allow dirty air and pollution to be “externalized.” Nearly half of our national discretionary budget is devoted to a military increasingly devoted to securing access to resources of other countries.
The wind project in Nantucket Sound is a modest step in the right direction to provide our own energy locally. It would set a fine example for other coastal communities like the one I live in.
David Esdale, Deerfield Beach, Florida
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