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This [Cape Wind project] is precisely the kind of renewable energy that pretty much every Earth Day speech since 1970 has demanded that we develop. Now that it's finally here, though--now that we're talking about particular windmills in particular places, not abstract and squeaky clean 'wind power'--people aren't so sure...But I've given my share of Earth Day speeches, and seen the effect they had. Sooner or later you've got to do something.

-- Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature

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· How long will the wind turbines last? · Who will remove the wind turbines at the end of the project? · When will the project be up and running?

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· How long will the wind turbines last? Twenty-years or more. Back to top
· Who will remove the wind turbines at the end of the project? Cape Wind has volunteered to provide a decommissioning financial instrument that will fund the wind turbines removal down to the seabed at the end of their economic life. Back to top
· When will the project be up and running? Cape Wind expects to conclude the permitting phase of the project by the middle of 2008 and to be fully built and functioning by the end of 2010. Construction should take two years or less. Back to top