Correspondent Ainsley Earhardt interviews Cape Wind's Mark Rodgers in this six minute segment on Cape Wind that aired on Hannity's America on Sunday, September 28, 2008.
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Global warming may be hitting you right where it really hurts: the dinner plate.

New research done by a team of scientists at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center shows that rising temperatures in coastal waters along the East Coast could be lowering overall productivity in the North Atlantic food chain, slowing the growth of fish and shellfish. That means fewer fish in the ocean now than scientists anticipated, and lowered expectations for the size of fish populations once New England's severely depleted stocks are rebuilt to healthy levels in the future.
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...The state Department of Environmental Protection last month issued a water quality certificate for Cape Wind Associates' plan to install nearly eight miles of transmission cable through Lewis Bay in West Yarmouth that would connect to 130 wind turbines in the sound.

If the turbines are built, an additional five miles of cable in federal waters would link the wind farm to the region's electric grid.
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...Proponents say wind offers more long-term energy independence than offshore oil.  Residents along the Eastern seaboard are embracing it as a stable-priced, environmentally friendly energy alternative.

..."This will be a game changer once this project is built," said Hill, the Cape Wind advocate. "We are going to be dancing on Craigsville Beach someday, looking out and seeing the turbines spinning."
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Wind, sun, water, biological waste - Massachusetts has the potential to turn them into a combined 10 million megawatt hours of power annually by 2020, according to a study to be released today.

The state's top energy official said the findings dispel any notion that Massachusetts would have to import much of the renewable power it will be required to use under recent legislation aimed at reducing dependence on fossil fuels while encouraging clean technologies that don't add to global warming. Those requirements, part of a larger "green" effort led by Governor Deval Patrick, dictate that by 2020, 15 percent of the power purchased by utilities must come from renewable energy sources built in the last decade.
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Wendy Williams' Op Ed in the Providence Journal:

IT’S HARD to believe, but the fabulously wealthy anti-wind-energy Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is waving the bird-kill issue again.

Susan Nickerson, the $100,000-a-year executive director of the “grassroots” tax-exempt outfit founded more than six years ago to stop Cape Wind, has been peddling a column complaining about the lack of “scientific diligence” by the wind company regarding wildlife research. This is despite the fact that Cape Wind has already spent several million dollars to study bird activity in the area of the proposed project.

Nickerson should be ashamed of herself.

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Click here to read Wendy Williams' Op Ed on her "Cape Wind - The Book blog"

In a recent piece published in this newspaper, (the Vineyard Gazette) Glenn Wattley made misleading statements about wind power and Cape Wind that I would like to address. Mr. Wattley is chief executive officer of the organization that formed solely to oppose Cape Wind, he has a background working in the coal industry, and he incorrectly argues that wind cannot help reduce our use of oil.

They say that everybody has their price, and it turns out that ours is four dollars.

For the first time in decades, the American public is driving less due to the rise of gas over that four-dollar mark. Last year, after the fourth Clean Power Now (CPN) annual meeting, I wrote this in order to explain my long standing support for the wind farm: "I support the wind farm as a matter of national defense. Burning oil is fouling our air, politics and economy. As I write this, oil is $93 a barrel, Turkey is preparing to attack Iraq while Iran is building a nuclear bomb for Tel Aviv, and childhood asthma is a national epidemic. The United States needs to become energy independent to maintain its ultimate independence, and we have a chance to contribute right here with the wind farm. It's the vision, not the view."

When I wrote that, gas was at $2.97 per gallon. Until this week, on Cape the price was as high as $4.50, although it's dropped back to just under $4. Unless bad things happen in Georgia. Or Nigeria. Or a hurricane hits the Gulf. Or just about anything. Now the world situation is even less stable and the Nantucket Sound wind farm makes more sense than ever.

Long term opponents have begun to change their minds.
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The lead article in the July, 2008 Special Issue, Engineering Strategies for Global Climate Change, of Leadership and Management in Engineering, Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, is entitled, "The Cape Wind Project in Context" and is co-authored by Mark Rodgers and Craig Olmsted of Cape Wind.

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The state's Energy Facility Siting Board made a series of key rulings yesterday on the wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound, including reasserting that it has more authority than the Cape Cod Commission over parts of the project.

"The bottom line is they defined the scope of the proceedings," said siting board spokesman Timothy Shevlin. The siting board is hearing a petition by Cape Wind Associates that would give the panel almost complete authority over parts of the project that fall under state jurisdiction.

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