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"Guard proposes Cape wind farm; Project could be the state's largest" by Vivian Nereim, Globe Correspondent | June 12, 2009
The Massachusetts National Guard said yesterday that it has proposed building a wind farm on the Massachusetts Military Reservation that would become the state's largest source of wind energy.
As the first of many steps toward building up to 17 wind turbines on the 22,000-acre facility on Cape Cod, the Guard filed a site plan for review with the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force Space Command.
The project could produce up to 34 megawatts, aiding Governor Deval Patrick's efforts to develop 2,000 megawatts of wind power in Massachusetts by 2020. There are 11 wind turbines across the state, with a total capacity of 6.8 megawatts, said Robert Keough, spokesman for the state's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Keough said the ambitious plan for the reservation could potentially provide power for the entire facility.
Wind isn't going to get us there then, folks.
And yet the agenda-pushing papers make it sound as if it is; however, it LIKELY IS but NOT THEY WAY the AGENDA-PUSHING PAPER and ITS FAVORED INTERESTS PREFER!
As with EVERYTHING, folks, DECENTRALIZE and LOCALIZE!
The proposal has received support from numerous elected officials, including Patrick, State Senate President Therese Murray, and US Representative William D. Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat. "Putting wind turbines at [the Massachusetts Military Reservation] makes sense both economically and environmentally," said Murray, a Plymouth Democrat.
The plan has also had the support of community activists who protested the Cape Wind Project, a controversial proposal to build 130 wind turbines off Cape Cod in Nantucket Sound. "It's something we've been saying all along, that you can say yes to wind, but no to Cape Wind," said Audra Parker, executive director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
Yeah, we know whom you represent.
Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers said the project considered the military reservation as a potential site. "We determined placing the same kind of wind farm there as we're looking to do offshore could probably produce half as much energy," he said. "That said, there certainly is good potential to do wind development at that site."
Before the National Guard's plan goes forward, the Federal Aviation Administration will review it to determine if it poses a hazard to aviation. Wind turbines can interfere with radar signals, a complication Cape Wind has come up against, said Jim Peters, an FAA spokesman.
The initial ruling for any project that requires an airspace study, as the National Guard's project probably will, is always that it is hazardous to aviation, Peters said. But if a project is found to be a hazard, the FAA provides a list of ways to mitigate the problem. Suggestions could include reducing the height of the turbines, shifting their location, or equipping Otis Air National Guard Base with a new radar system.
And HOW MUCH will THAT COST taxpayers for a non-existent problem?
There have been no other specific proposals to build wind turbines on state land yet, Keough said, but the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs will be discussing the idea at public meetings on the Cape and in the Berkshires in coming weeks. The department hopes to get ideas on how the state should balance what Keough called "the protection of open spaces" with the "challenge of climate change and the need to increase our use of renewable energy."
Here is where you can start: Wealthy Responsible For Global Warming
Located in the northwestern corner of the Cape over the Sagamore Lens, the area's sole aquifer, , the military reservation is the site of a major environmental cleanup, Keough said.
Yeah, THE WAR MACHINE is the WORLD'S WORST POLLUTER OUT THERE -- but I NEVER SEE THEM at the ANTIWAR PROTESTS!!!!
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Over years of exercises there, contaminants had seeped into the groundwater, but Guard spokeswoman Lynda Wadsworth said the reservation is making many efforts to ensure training now is safe for the environment.
Btw, that's what the REAL ENVIRONMENTAL BATTLE IS: the CORPORATE POLLUTION of our land, air, and water -- not the FART-MISTING FART-BELCHERS of GLOBAL WARMING, 'er, CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!
Yeah, because it is GETTING COOLER it is now CLIMATE CHANGE!! Anything to impose their CARBON TAX!
It is a shame that so many Americans do not question global warming -- although many more are; a guy at the basketball game asked me about it last week. Asked me if it was real and if it as us, and I told him: planet is in a cooling phase, and sun has more to do with it than puny humans.
Meanwhile, back out in the Sound:
"Cape Cod panel challenges state on Wind Farm permit; Appeal is one of three; local control at issue" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | June 18, 2009
The influential Cape Cod Commission is appealing a state board’s recent decision to grant the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm a suite of local permits, warning that the move could mean little local say in future energy projects across the state.
As if we had any now. Town Council is going approve biomass plant about 5 miles away when over 400 people turned out against it. Sometimes local politics feels like a straight-jacket.
Has no one thought that the biomass plant which will devastate our wonderful forests and the FALL FOLIAGE and poison the air from debris-burning that always occurs.
Related: Globe Makes a Bio-Mess
Now I'm definitely opposed!
The appeal, to the state’s highest court, was one of three announced yesterday - the town of Barnstable and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound filed others - over the consolidation last month by the Energy Facilities Siting Board of nine local permits for the 130-turbine project into one “superpermit.’’
I LOVE Massachusetts state fascism, don't you?
The appeal is yet another wrinkle in the developers’ eight-year battle to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm. The project is awaiting a federal sign-off that could come next month. But the appeals promise to stall the project even longer.... The wind farm would be built in federal waters, beyond the reach of most state and local agencies.
Related: Fascism in the Name of the Environment
Many of the transmission lines would be on land, however, giving various governments authority to review pieces of the project. Included are the towns of Barnstable and Yarmouth, as well as the Cape Cod Commission.
See: Power Problem
All this cost for a pffffft!
They would be better of letting you keep your tax money and outfit your homes yourself. Of course, then the money wouldn't go you know where.
Also see: The Power of Green
Paul Niedzwiecki, executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, said in a statement [that] the issue was about jurisdiction, not the Cape Wind project, and stressed that the commission understands that fast action is needed to end the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels and that offshore wind projects are necessary in coastal areas that could be endangered by a rise in sea levels....
Maybe you should read this: The Boston Globe Admits Global Warming is a Fraud.... Sort Of
The Cape Cod Commission’s decision to appeal rankled some Cape Wind supporters, who said the public agency should not be using taxpayer dollars to fight a project that’s so needed in the region.
I'm kind of enjoying the elitist food fight.
“I live on the Cape, as do many of our members,’’ said Barbara Hill, executive director of Clean Power Now, a Cape Wind support group. “This is an egregious use of funding. We have so many issues here, and my tax dollars are funding the attorney to take these suits to the Supreme Judicial Court.’’
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