The possibility of eventually going further and deeper will be enhanced by the experience that will be gained with the turbines in Nantucket Sound....It is prudent that the first projects be relatively close to shore, and in relatively shallow water before moving further out. Nantucket Sound is a good place to begin.
-- Dr. James F. Manwell, Director, Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, UMass
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Letter: Sen. Kennedy should stop fighting Cape Wind Thursday, April 13, 2006
By Erik Gehring
It is one thing to oppose Cape Wind in good faith, despite the hypocrisy this shows from someone who claims to support renewable energy. It is another thing altogether to surreptitiously change the rules at the 11th hour via a profoundly undemocratic measure slipped into the Coast Guard Reauthorization Bill, vital spending legislation that needs to be passed.
During the filibuster debate last year you said, "Every child knows that you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game."