As the first shallow water offshore project under review in the United States, utility-scale projects like Cape Wind are important to our national interest and a critical first step to building a domestic, globally competitive wind industry. Success in the project could also lay the foundation for a focused national investment to develop offshore wind technology in the coming years.
-- David Garman, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy
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Cape Wind should get final OK Tuesday, March 09, 2010
...We suggest that the time for action is at hand. If the Obama administration is serious about the promise of alternative energies, there is more than enough information on the record to justify giving Cape Wind the go-ahead. A nation that is unwilling to put solid ideas to the test is one that will inherit plenty of wind — but no electrical power to show for it.