Thu, 23 May 2013 12:17:52 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/ Cape Wind News en-us http://www.capewind.org/images/logo.gif http://www.capewind.org/ nate@ecape.com http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1324 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:17:52 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1322 In his 2013 Earth Day speech at MIT, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick listed his administation's clean energy accomplishments including that with Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts will be home to America's first offshore wind farm. Click here to read the article in CleanTech Thu, 02 May 2013 10:49:24 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1321 Commonwealth Magazine takes a close look at Cape Wind President Jim Gordon and Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Chairman (and coal and petroleum coke billionaire) Bill Koch.  Bill Koch reveals his strategy is to tie up the courts while trying to elect anti-wind power politicians.  Jim Gordon opens up on why this project is so important to him, to his company, to Massachusetts and to the nation. Click here to read this article in Commonwealth Magazine Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:37:39 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1320 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday he is optimistic that the nation’s first offshore wind farm will break ground this year after more than a decade of delays. “I think there’s a good chance it will happen before the end of the year,” Salazar said in an interview with The Associated Press. Click here to read this AP article in the Washington Post Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:07:59 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1319 Quote from Cape Wind President Jim Gordon reacting to the news that the entire Massachusetts Congressional Delegation has submitted a letter asking the Department of Energy to approve Cape Wind's Loan Guarantee as soon as possible:"I am grateful to Congressman Bill Keating and to the entire Massachusetts Congressional Delegation for their leadership and vision in pursuit of a cleaner and more prosperous energy future for Massachusetts and for helping launch the U.S. offshore wind industry". -- Jim Gordon Click here to read Congressman Bill Keating's press release Click here to read the MA Congressional Delegation letter to the Department of Energy Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:13:23 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1318 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:40:47 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1317 U.K. renewable power generation surged 20 percent last year, boosted by new offshore wind farms, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said....“The largest absolute increase in generation was from offshore wind,” the department said. “This was largely due to increased capacity.”The U.K. aims to get 30 percent of its electricity from clean sources by 2020 as part of efforts to meet an EU target of deriving 15 percent of all energy, including for heat and transportation, from renewables. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:14:03 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1316 Click on the links below to read the news coverage: Reuters, Bloomberg, AOL Energy, Boston Business Journal, Associated Press, New Bedford Standard Times, Cape Cod Times, Barnstable Patriot, Cape Cod Today Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:20:04 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1315 Reprinted here in its entirely from Greenwire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202/628-6500. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:05:50 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1314 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:11:50 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1313 Conservation Law Foundation's Cape Wind Now campaign generates substantial support in favor of Cape Wind's loan guarantee request to the Department of Energy. Click here to view the petition, Click here to read the Cape Cod Today article, Click here to read the New Bedford Standard Times article, Click here to read the Associated Press article, Click here to read the Cape Cod Times article Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1312 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar talks with Jim Gordon of Cape Wind at an offshore wind conference in Boston February 26, 2013 -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the keynote speech at the Greenpower Offshore Wind USA Conference in Boston and he spoke with the news media afterwards. Asked by a reporter, "Opponents of Cape wind keep suing in court and are suing your agency now, what’s your message to them?" Secretary Salazar responded:  “Senator Ted Kennedy was a dear friend of mine and this was one issue he and I disagreed on. I would just say to the people who are opposed to it is that offshore wind for the United States on the Atlantic is coming it’s a very important part of the energy future of the United States. I think one of the things Cape Wind could be is the standard bearer having been the first offshore wind project putting electrons on the grid and the fact that it can power as many as 200,000 homes will be a big win for the State of Massachusetts, and it is a job creator. Mitigation measures have been put in place to mitigate impacts some of the opponents have claimed and at the end of the day we are very comfortable with the legal position that we have, we think we will prevail and the project will be built.” Click here to read a related article in Commonwealth Magazine Click here to read a related article in Mother Jones Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:35:26 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1311 The Huffington Post has published a 7,000-word-deep-dive into Cape Wind by Tom Zeller, Jr., that asks if permitting and legal reviews of clean energy projects like Cape Wind need to be streamlined to better protect the public interest. Click here to read this Huffington Post article Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:07:47 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1310 Bruce Mohl at Commonwealth Magazine takes a close look at how a single-purpose opposition group that receives a quarter of its funds from Bill Koch, is bankrolling the Town of Barnstable's legal appeals of government approvals of Cape Wind.  Click here to read the article Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:00:58 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1309 Matthew Wald of the New York Times explores how the addition of more wind power and offshore wind could help reduce winter cold snap natural gas price spikes and supply shortages in New England, Cape Wind President Jim Gordon is quoted. Click here to read the article on the New York Times Green Blog Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:40:06 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1308 The day after President Obama mentioned Siemens USA in his State of the Union Speech, Fox Business News interviewed Siemens USA CEO Eric Spiegel to talk about his company's plans in the U.S.  One of the topics they discuss is offshore wind power and Mr. Spiegel talks about how Cape Wind is moving forward and Siemens is supplying its turbines to this project. Click here to view the interview Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:02:49 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1307 The Danish Wind Energy Association has announced that Denmark now gets 30% of its electricity from wind, with offshore wind set to drive most of their growth on the way to their goal of 50% wind.  Click here for the announcement. Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:49:42 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1306 From President Barack Obama's Second Inaugural Address: "...We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.  Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared..." President Barack Obama, January 21, 2013 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:48:06 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1305 Reuters is reporting on two significant new reports on climate change -- in 'Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds', Reuters reports how climate change is already significantly impacting every region of the United States according to a draft 1,146 page report of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Reuters' article 'Emissions limits could cut climate damage by two-thirds - study' reports on a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change that is the first comprehensive assessment of the benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, finding up to two thirds of the damange this century from climate change can be prevented if major steps are taken now to reduce emissions. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:18:36 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1303 Readers have spoken, and by an overwhelming margin the biggest local business story of 2012 was NStar’s merger with Northeast Utilities that also included an agreement to buy power from the controversial Cape Wind project. Here are the others that rounded up the top five: Click here to read this Boston Globe article Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:13:47 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1302 ...The American Wind Energy Association’s conference exhibition hall was full of European and multinational firms that are busy plunging scores of turbines into their waters. German developers talked about how the industry has transformed rusting homeland harbors into bustling ports, while British officials boasted that industry investment in offshore wind will leap from $8 billion in the last decade to $80 billion in the next eight years. Representatives of American firms could only watch wistfully and wish the US government cared as much about wind energy as Europe does. Peter Duclos and Tim McAuliffe were two of those wistful watchers. Gladding-Hearn, their Somerset, Mass., company, specializes in ferries, patrol boats, pilot boats, and tugboats. They want to make boats to transport workers and equipment out to turbines. Click here to read this Derrick Z. Jackson column in the Boston Globe Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:22:53 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1301 "...The good news is that many of the pieces are falling into place, including here in the Bay State; after 10 years of debate, the Cape Wind project is on track to cross the finish line in 2013. In addition, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has identified two formal wind energy areas off our coast covering nearly 1,000 square miles, with leases to be offered for sale by competitive auction in 2013. As a result of these positive signs of progress, the Commonwealth is moving forward with plans for a new marine terminal in New Bedford to support the delivery, assembly, and installation of offshore wind energy projects." Click here to read this Op Ed in the Boston Globe Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:14:43 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1299 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:18:57 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1298 In an Op Ed in today's Barnstable Patriot, 'Dots that need connecting', Cape and Islands State Senator Dan Wolf questions the opposition group & Bill Koch funding of the Town of Barnstable's litigation of Cape Wind permits. Click here to read Senator Wolf's Op Ed Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:27:08 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1297 Siemens has launched exciting new videos about the important role wind and offshore wind can play in supplying clean energy to the world. Click here to view their "Next Big Step video" (2 minutes, 29 seconds) Also Siemens has produced 2 videos on their operations and maintenance (O&M) activities on offshore wind farms, a good preview of the kinds of jobs coming to Falmouth harbor on Cape Cod... Click here to view Siemens #1 video on offshore wind O&M (3 minutes, 41 seconds) Click here to view Siemens #2 video on offshore wind O&M (3 minutes, 54 seconds) Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:41:17 -0500