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Protecting Nantucket Sound from wind power - but not sewage?
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Moses Calouro wants to "fire a shot across the bow" of those who oppose a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, and he figures his firepower comes in the form of unlikely questions:

Why are some of the biggest opponents of the wind farm dumping sewage into the Sound, a lot of it in the very same area where the wind farm might go?

And why isn’t the "Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound" screaming bloody murder about that – unless their name is just a smokescreen to cover their anti-wind farm activities?

"They keep talking about what a pristine resource Nantucket Sound is, and so there shouldn’t be a renewable resource [wind power] out there," says Calouro. "So let’s talk about that. How is it really being used?

"Dumping sewage is not a pristine way of using it."

Note: Click here to read this article in the Cape Cod Voice

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