The Alliance for Business Leadership calls Cape Wind 'an historic opportunity' for Massachusetts

Click here to read their article about why Cape Wind is a good fit for the Massachusetts economy

A new survey ranks Massachusetts 2nd from the top in the nation for its leadership on building a clean energy economy.  Cape Wind stands poised to help it become #1 by considerably increasing the supply of clean energy being tapped here and by helping launch the new U.S. offshore wind industry here. 

Click here to read the article in Cape Cod Today.

I have worked in the offshore wind industry in Europe and have seen up close the ports full of activity and the nearby towns revitalized.

With the help of the 35,000 people working in the industry, Europe has constructed 55 offshore wind farms to date. This already substantial workforce is projected to grow to 170,000 workers by 2020, just seven years from now.

Having cut my teeth on an offshore wind project in northern Germany, I am now using those experiences back here in Massachusetts as Cape Wind's newest employee.

Cape Cod is a special place for me. Growing up, I spent every summer with my grandparents here.

Click here to read Hannah Wood's Op Ed in the Cape Cod Times

BREMERHAVEN, Germany

City officials and business leaders of New Bedford came to the perfect place for inspiration last month, just before they broke ground on America’s first port terminal dedicated to the offshore wind industry. For all the lament in New Bedford about the city’s high unemployment rate, Bremerhaven, Germany, had it worse. Locals once said this was a city of no hope.

...If this German city, formerly of no hope and no clue, has come this far, it gives New Bedford plenty to hope for. 

Click here to read this Derrick Jackson column in the Boston Globe

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

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

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

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