Should the 130 wind turbine project 'Cape Wind' be built?

Question

Cape Wind is a 130 wind turbine project that will generate 420Mw of clean power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind

Currently this privatly funded project is being blocked by democrat politicians.

Should this project be built to help reduce the overly polluted US Northeast, or should the old coal fired plants be used instead?

Would you write your congress men to help see that this project gets the green light to help reduce green house gases?

Answer 1

Yes it should.  

I don't understand why someone doesn't think that free energy for the country isn't beautiful off of the coast of your family vacation home in MA.

Answer 2

Yes it should.  As usual you've got your facts wrong though.  From your own link:

"Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and U.S. Senator Edward M Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) added a section to a Coast Guard reauthorization bill that would have banned any offshore wind project that is sited within 1.5 miles of a shipping channel, effectively killing the project....

In a letter dated May 5, 2006, Under Secretary of Energy David K. Garman opposed the amendment on behalf of the Bush administration and said "singling out wind generation in this manner could have a chilling impact on the continued investment and growth of this promising renewable energy resource." (Boston Globe, May 6)...

Some members of the Massachusetts delegation to the United States Congress and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney [R] are opposed to the Cape Wind project. However, current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick [D] has expressed strong support for the project in addition to other renewable energy projects."

Sounds to me like most of the opposition to the project is Republican.

Answer 3

Yes and if they need a new coal plant, lets hope its next door to Ted.

Answer 4

It's in the Atlantic Flyway:

http://www.answers.com/topic/atlantic-fl...

but that's probably a minor issue.  

Yeah, it should be built and it is the typical rich cape cod NIMBYs who are preventing it.  There was a link to a video of George Carlin here a while back.  I disagree with most of Carlin's technical assessments of environmental impacts (in that man can have no effect on global environment) but totally agree with him that most rich environmental "liberals" are in it to have a nice safe "habitat" in which to drive to the beaches in their Saabs, BMWs, Porsches, and Volvos.  The siting of the proposed farm makes sense as a test bed, even though it will likely be reduced to an artificial reef and navigation hazard in a decade.  

Really though, if it made economic sense to build it and some corporation could make lots of money, it would get built regardless of the public outcry.  What makes you think pure profit isn't driving this as surely as the profit associated with building a gas turbine power plant?