Check out Jon Keller’s letter to Senator Kennedy.

…Whatever the reason for your silence, it’s time for you to break it - and come down in favor of letting the wind farm proceed. The Globe reports that the final environmental approval of the project could come down any day now. If so, the only remaining obstacle to this badly-needed source of clean, renewable energy would be endless legal harassment by the coalition of big oil money and NIMBYite landowners who’ve been trying to kill the project every step of the way. (Actually, there’s another potential problem - the possibility that the draconian, costly delays combined with the current financial crisis might have crippled the capacity of Cape Wind investors to go forward.)

All along, you have implausibly (given your occasional lapses into NIMBYite rhetoric about the alleged spoilage of the sound) maintained that your only interest was in establishing a proper process for review of large offshore wind farms in public waters. Well, the final federal OK caps a grueling local, state and federal permitting process of unprecedented rigor dating back years. The developers have made many promises along the way; these must all be kept, and the project’s construction and performance must be carefully policed to ensure that environmental and economic pledges are fulfilled. But there is no credible claim to be made that further delay is necessary…

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