Click here to read David Gessner’s column in NRDC’s OnEarth, ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cape Wind’, a compelling conversion story from someone who feels a passionate connection to Cape Cod.

Mr. Gessner is the author of eight books including ‘My Green Manifesto’ and ‘The Tarball Chronicles’.

Letter by Yarmouthport resident Jim Liedell published in the Cape Cod Times, 12/9/11.

Column by James Freeman in the Cape Cod Times, 12/5/11

...Sitting with Gordon in his spartan Boston office recently is to see a man more willful than wistful. He has endured years of personal epithets, endless public meetings, political and judicial jostling and searing setbacks, but has steadfastly succeeded, in the face of poor odds, in nearly seeing the wind farm begin construction and, ultimately, generation. If operational, it presumably affects every Cape home and business.

In jeans, tweed jacket and brown loafers, he is a study in comportment and contemplation, if not quiet confidence. If there is scar tissue, you wouldn't see it. "Ten years ago," he recalls, "we believed, compared to choosing fossil or nuclear generation, powering Cape Cod and the region with offshore wind was a compelling choice and today we still do."
Note: Click here to read the entire column by James Freeman in the Cape Cod Times

Click here to read a column by Dave Kent on Cape Cod Today on the opposition group to Cape Wind's staggering debt and about how the Boston Herald article about their finances got it so wrong

Boston Business Journal Op Ed by Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers

Click here to read Op Ed by Michael Conathan, Ocean Policy Director for the Center for American Progress, in Climate Progress

Click here to read a statement by the American Wind Energy Association

Click here to read letters published by the Wall Street Journal, which include letters from Cape Wind and the Conservation Law Foundation

Op Ed that appeared in the Cape Cod Times on June 30 by Susannah Parasons, Bourne resident and student at the University of Vermont. Appears here in its entirety with the author's permission.

...As Barnstable County reassesses its overall mission, shouldn't it take leadership in addressing the challenges to the Cape's future with goals for wind energy to protect the island?

When Cape Wind is built, all eyes will be on us. But what will we stand for? Cape Codders have always been seen as cherishing the environment. As we consider the Cape we leave to our children and grandchildren, we can stand as a community making the tough wise choices to solve the most important questions of our time and be an inspiration to everyone.
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Click here to read this Op Ed by Rory Marcus in the Cape Cod Times

Despite National Grid's repeated statements that its residential customers will pay only $1.59 per month (a nickel a day) extra to include Cape Wind's clean electricity, opponents still call this agreement a bad deal. But a daily nickel premium to include Massachusetts' mandated 6 percent (8 percent in 2013) renewable energy in National Grid's electricity (as all distributing companies must) is peanuts compared with adding local jobs, unfouling air and water, reducing illnesses, lessening our natural gas and foreign oil dependency, and limiting the loss of Cape and Islands beaches and homes.
Note: Click here to read this Op Ed by Jim Liedell and Chuck Kleekamp in the Cape Cod Times

...The Cape does not have the natural resources or infrastructure to support manufacturing or mining, but we do have one abundant natural resource — wind.

Recent local news reveals that the towns of Falmouth and Harwich are competing to be the site of an operations facility from which parts of the Cape Wind project will be managed — with good reason. According to Mark Rodgers, Cape Wind spokesman, this facility will entail 40 to 50 jobs. Those jobs will create economic security not only for the job holders, but they will enhance the economies of the town savvy enough to win the facility.

Cape Cod Community College, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and our technical high schools realized long ago that we needed to offer our students (of all ages) the education they would need to enter these new industries. We knew we would need skilled tradespeople, technicians, scientists and engineers to provide the work force that would enable us to build this important new sector of our economy.

Fortunately, Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind, also knew it. In 2003, the Gordon Family Foundation provided a grant of $100,000 to Cape Cod Community College to support the development of renewable energy courses, certificates and degrees that would be offered at the technical high schools, Cape Cod Community College, the Maritime and UMass Dartmouth, preparing students for jobs in all forms of renewable and alternative energy.

Note: Click here to read this Op Ed by Kathy Schatzberg, President of Cape Cod Community College, and Admiral Richard Gurnon, President of the Massachusetts Martime Academy in the Cape Cod Times