Forecast for Cape Wind, unsettled

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Forecast for Cape Wind, unsettled

http://www.enn.com/energy/article/41176

From: Tom Doggett, Reuters
Published April 3, 2010 07:55 AM

This article relates to the miller text book because it is dealing with renewable resources.

This article covers Cape Cod and the surrounding Massachusetts Area.

A federal advisory panel urged the U.S. Interior Department to block the $1 billion wind project off Cape Cod, opposed by local business leaders and politicians but then seen as a step in the right direction regarding Obama administration's energy strategy. Cape Wind Associates LLC has proposed building 130 wind towers that would soar 440 feet above the surface of Nantucket Sound near the popular Massachusetts tourist areas of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island. The proposed wind farms provide electricity to about 400,000 homes but within view of popular resorts. This would be the countries largest offshore wind farm.

I think that this wind farm should be in place. If built these wind turbines will provide a large amount of electricity and is a step in the right direction. If proven successful other offshore wind farms will shot up due and will make the transition to renewable resources.

Nantucket Sound-is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Oceanoffshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts.