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

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.

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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.

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Reuters, Bloomberg, AOL Energy, Boston Business Journal, Associated Press, New Bedford Standard Times, Cape Cod Times, Barnstable Patriot, Cape Cod Today

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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.

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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

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.

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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