Support for Cape Wind               

Cape Wind enjoys strong public and stakeholder support at a level unprecedented for any electric generation project in the history of New England.  Cape Wind officials have worked hard since the project was first proposed in 2001 to help educate and inform the public about the project.  Cape Wind has worked closely with a variety of stakeholder groups including the news media and we have given over 500 public presentations.

Public Opinion

In a poll conducted in September, 2010, the Boston Globe found 69% of Massachusetts residents support Cape Wind while only 20% oppose it. 

In December, 2009, the University of Delaware published the results of a public opinion survey of residents on Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.  The survey methodology received an excellent review from an independent polling expert that was contacted by the Cape Cod Times.  The survey found that Cape Wind is supported by 57% of the residents of the Cape and Islands and support outnumbers opposition in that region by a margin of 16%.

Elected Officials

• Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick
• 107 Members of the Massachusetts Legislature including 28 Committee Chairmen
• Senator John Kerry
• Senator Elizabeth Warren
• Attorney General Martha Coakley
• Members of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation: Bill Keating, Ed Markey, Joseph Kennedy, Mike Capuano, Niki Tsongas, John Olver, John Tierney, Richard Neal, Jim McGovern, Stephen Lynch

• Association to Preserve Cape Cod
• Woods Hole Research Center
• League of Women Voters Cape Cod Area
• Cape & Islands Self Reliance
• Cape Clean Air
• Hy-Line Cruises
• Bareboat Sailing Charters

 Environmental Organizations

• Clean Water Action
• Clean Air-Cool Planet
• Coalition for Buzzards Bay
• Conservation Law Foundation
• Envirocitizen
• Environment Massachusetts
• Environmental League of Massachusetts
• Friends of the Earth
• Greenpeace USA      
• League of Conservation Voters                                                                                                 
• Massachusetts Audubon Society
• Massachusetts Climate Action Network
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Oceana 
• Sierra Club
• Union of Concerned Scientists

Labor, Business, Civic & Religious Organizations

• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 223
• Maritime Trades Council
• New England Regional Council of Carpenters, Pile Drivers Local Union 56
• Seafarers International Union
• International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers
• Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America, Local 201
• Civil Society Institute
• American Wind Energy Association
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• New England Clean Energy Council
• Offshore Wind Accelator Project
• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
• The Apollo Alliance
• National Ocean Industries Association
• American Council on Renewable Energy
• CERES
• Mass Energy Consumers Alliance  
• Massachusetts Parent Teacher Association - PTA
• Coalition for Social Justice  
• Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light
• Religious Witness For the Earth
• Maine Interfaith Power and Light

Health Organizations

• American Lung Association - Massachusetts Chapter
• American Lung Association - Maine Chapter
• Cape Clean Air
• Boston Urban Asthma Coalition
• Citizens Action Network
• Healthlink
• Pilgrim Watch

Academic and Scientific Leaders & Authors 

• Dr. George Woodwell, Global Climate Expert
• Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature"
• Ross Gelbspan, author of "The Heat is On"
• Annie Dillard, author of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
• David Gessner, author of "My Green Manifesto"
• Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute
• Dr. Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
• Dr. Helen Caldicott, Pediatrician and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility
• William Shutkin, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dr. James Manwell, Renewable Energy Resource Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Dr. Richard Payne, Oceanographer Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Susan Tierney, Former Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Former Assistant Secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Energy
• Jane Mead, Former Project Review Coordinator for the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
• Arthur Puglsey, Former Senior Environmental Analyst with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
• Jay Wickersham, Former Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Former Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office
• John DeVillars, former New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

College and University Organizations

• Brown University Environmental Action Network
• Harvard University Environmental Action Committee
• Columbia University Earth Coalition
• Northeastern Students for Environmental Action
• Tufts Environmental Consciousness Outreach
• Ecopledge of Boston College
• Boston College Environmental Action Coalition
• Colgate University's Students for Environmental Action
• Boston University's Environmental Student Organization
• Constructive Activists' Club of Unity College, Maine
• University of Pennsylvania Environmental Group
• University of Rhode Island Renewable Energy Club
• Pennsylvania State Environmental Society
• Providence College Environmental Club

Representatives from towns where EMI has previously developed power projects have written letters of support that focus on the community’s experience in working with EMI.