Hey Kennedy family - suck it up
The off-shore wind farm that
Teddy Kennedy tried to block because: “
But don’t you realize, that’s where I sail.” just got a key regulatory thumbs up.
From the
Boston Herald:
Cape Wind gets key approval
The controversial wind-turbine project off Cape Cod got a key regulatory thumbs-up this morning, moving the Cape Wind proposal closer to reality.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service described its preliminary OK of Cape Wind as a “milestone” for offshore wind energy.
The decision was expected because a draft MMS report last year had already signaled the agency’s favorable view toward the project, which calls for 130 giant wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, costing more than $1 billion.
But there was some doubt that the MMS’s final report could be issued before President George Bush left office and before opponents, including some Massachusetts congressional members, could possibly torpedo the project.
Now MMS has release its long-awaited final draft - and it will go through a 30-day review.
Cape Wind still needs to get other government permits. But MMS’s OK is considered crucial.
Wind is not suitable for baseload and I do not believe that the New England grid is fully capable of dealing with the power generated by these new facilities but this is an excellent start to getting rid of our dependency on foreign oil for something as simple as power generation.
Nuclear is the best (and cheapest) technology out there and obviously we need to be pushing a lot more than we are right now but Wind is a good source of peak power and we should not be ignoring it.
Posted by DaveH at January 16, 2009 7:04 PM
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