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comCUPPINGS
Getting togetheron renewable
energy
The Cape's use of electricity and the grow-
ing interest in supplying that need from
renewable resources including wind power
was described yesterday at a press conference
held by Cape & Islands Renewable Energy
Collaborative.
The Collaborative, which has received a
strategic planning and outreach grant from
the Massachusetts Technology Council, issued
a call for action that asks all stakeholders to
collaborate on achieving electricity indepen-
dence, on candidates to complete a "voting
energy" guide, and on county agencies to
adopt proactive stances toward renewable
energy.
The Collaborative supports a resolution
proposed for adoption by the Cape Light
Compact that would recognize the potential
of pending renewable energy projects on the
Cape and encourage consideration of long-
term agreements with their principals to
provide power for Cape Codders.
Restoring our waters
There's good news for fish and other liv-
ing things in the Cape Cod Water Resources
Restoration Project Draft Watershed Plan and
Areawide Environmental Impact Statement.
Public comment is open until Sept. 8 on the
plan to restore salt marshes and fish passages
and improve water quality.
A copy of the plan, created by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Natural Resources
Conservation Service in partnership with
the Cape Cod Conservation District and the
county commissioners, is available at the
Hyannis Public Library and on-line at www.
ma.ncrs.usda.gov
Bring your Speedo
The Assembly of Delegates holds its annual
meeting in the Nauset Beach gazebo in Or-
leans Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. The finance committee
will serve as the opening act at 3 p.m., vetting
a proposal to rescind approval of $437,589 in
the Capital Projects Fund appropriated over
the last few years but unissued.
Free meals for children
There are three locations in Hyannis where
children can enjoy free lunches this summer,
thanks to the state Department of Education
and the county's Human Services department.
Meals are being served Monday through Fri-
day from noon to 1p.m. at Living Hope Family
Church at 46 Mitchell's Way and Cromwell
Court, 168 Barnstable Road, through Aug. 25.
Through Aug. 18, meals will be served week-
days from 1to 2 p.m. at the Kennedy Rink on
Basset Lane.
A "lunch express" will leave Calvary Baptist
Church at West Main Street and Lincoln Road
Monday through Friday at noon for Living
Hope Family Church, returning about 2 p.m.
There is no fare for children up to age 18.
U.K. goes deep for
wind power
United Press International
reported last week that United
Kingdom energy companies
will attempt to attach two
of the world's largest wind
turbines to an oil platform 15
miles to the east of Scotland.
This would be a test of the
practicality of generating wind
energy from a structure reach-
ing down 148 feet under the
water.
The report quoted the Brit-
ish Wind Energy Association's
head of offshore wind as saying
that such far-offshore loca-
tions would avoid conflicts
with shipping, nature and
other interests, including
shoreline property owners.
Gordon Edge, the report said,
believes that shallow-water
wind farms will fade in the face
of environmental concerns and
space constraints.
Cape Wind Associates,
which wants to build 130 wind
turbines in shallow waters
off Barnstable in Nantucket
Sound, has argued that the
technology to make deep-wa-
ter generation work may be
decades off. The UPI report
is silent on an issue raised by
Cape Wind, that of the poten-
tially exorbitant cost of trans-
mission fines from deep-water
sites.
Wind energy given
national stage by NPR
NPR's Justice Talking,
a weekly show broadcast
throughout the country, came
to the Chatham Bars Inn July
19 and recorded a broadcast
examining the issues sur-
rounding wind energy, in a
place that is intimately famil-
iar with the topic.
This Saturday at 4 p.m, a
30-minute feature created
from the 90-minute taping in
Chatham, will air on the Cape
and Islands NPR Stations at
90.1 FM, 91.1 FM, and 94.3 FM.
Over 150 people attended
the taping, according to a
press release, and were given
the opportunity to question
the panel of experts that
included John Passacantando,
executive director of Green-
peace USA; Jerry Taylor, a
senior fellow from the Cato
Institute; and the well-known
environmental historian and
professor, Robert Richter.
Cape Cod Commission
comments
The comment period on the
scope of the federal Miner-
als Management Service's
Environmental Impact State-
ment on Cape Wind's project
expired July 28, but the Cape
Cod Commission weighed in
before that.
In a letter signed by sub-
committee chair Elizabeth
Taylor of Brewster, the com-
mission rang some familiar
chimes, including a request for
clearer analysis of the "pur-
pose and need" of the project.
In comments to previous re-
viewers - the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers and the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts - the
commission has maintained
that the project was too nar-
rowly defined, thus eliminating
a broad variety of alterna-
tives to meet the need to tap
renewable energy sources. The
agency also wants to see the
purported benefits tied specifi-
cally to the project.
Noting that the project is a
moving target, the commis-
sion asks MMS to be mindful
of improvements in technology
that might allow consideration
of energy resources ruled out
- including those of northern
New England - because of the
cost of transmission.
Options, including phased
installation, multi-site loca-
tion, and rearranging the
turbine array so that some
rows are farther from shore or
more compact are among the
ideas raised by the commis-
sion. The letter notes that the
seven turbines off the coast of
Arklow in Ireland are the same
as those proposed for Nan-
tucket Sound, yet they are half
as far apart as the proposed
wind farm here.
The commission congratu-
lates MMS for promising a
"cradle-to-gr ave" supervision
of the wind farm from con-
struction through decommis-
sioning and dismantling.
MMS plans to publish a
draft Environmental Impact
Statement this winter and
hold public hearings. A final
EIS may be ready in the fall of
2007 , and a written decision
published that winter.
Heated rhetoric
Cape Wind's plans for Nan-
tucket Sound make some hot
under the collar, but the com-
pany says it could have helped
cool things down during last
week's heat wave.
In a press statement , com-
munications director Mark
Rodgers said the wind farm
would have produced up to
236 megawatts of electricity on
Aug. 2, when a new record was
set for energy demand in New
England.
"Cape Wind would be mak-
ing a meaningful contribution
of clean energy today helping
to ensure electric reliability in
New England while also reduc-
ing air pollution and improving
air quality," Rodgers declared.
Advocacy group
spawns another
The Alliance to Protect
Nantucket Sound has a
little brother, Advocates for
Nantucket Sound , which it' s
formed as a non-profit orga-
nization that will push for
federal and state protection
of the Sound from "inap-
propriate or irresponsible "
development.
The initial board of directors
is comprised of Alliance lead-
ers. It includes president and
CEO Charles Vinick, water-
front business owner Wayne
Kurker, and gazillionaire
yachtsman/art collector Bill
Koch. More members are to be
added later.
Back to his roots
Matt Palmer of West
Barnstable , former executive
director of the "grass-roots"
Clean Power Now that sup-
ports the Cape Wind project ,
has gone to work as a project
manager for Cape Wind's par-
ent. Energy Management , Inc.
A press release from EMI
stated that Palmer will be
working on wind proposals in
Texas, a proposed peak power
plant in Chelsea and other
renewable energy projects.
Before starting Clean Power
Now, Palmer was plant engi-
neer at Dighton Power. The
press release said the gas-fired
plant had the lowest emission
rates of any fossil-fuel plant in
New England when it began
service. It was developed by
EMI.
This he likes
U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, who
opposes Cape Wind's plans
for a wind farm in Nantucket
Sound , was in Hull last month
to celebrate a planning grant
that will help the town build
an offshore wind facility.
Already widely known for
its first onshore turbine , the
South Shore community dedi-
cated a second tower on July
24. Combined , they are expect-
ed to provide 13 percent of the
town 's electricity through its
municipal department .
Should the offshore wind
park be successful , the com-
bination will probably provide
100 percent of Hull's electricity
requirements.
Pole toll
At a recent meeting, David
Scudder of Hy-Line Cruises
enlivened a county transpor-
tation plan meeting with this
observation about dismissal of
concerns about Cape Wind's
effects on navigation.
"People aren't supposed to
hit telephone poles , but they
hit them all the time," he said.
"They 're not in the road."
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