Originally published December 29 2005
PBS transcript reveals major contentions that fuel the debate over wind power
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
PBS has posted a transcript of a debate over a wind power project in Nantucket Sound, carried out between local business and home owners and the project's leaders.
Jim Gordon, president of a private company called Cape Wind, is determined to put America's first offshore wind farm right in the middle of Nantucket Sound.
It would have 130 wind turbines, each taller than the Statue of Liberty, five miles from the nearest land.
In Massachusetts, we're facing an energy crisis.
TOM BEARDEN: It would seem that building a wind farm in environmentally friendly Cape Cod would be a slam dunk.
CLIFF CARROLL: As you look back over the plane, you see easily how the wind turbines are going to cover not only the ocean's surface, they are going to cover the entire horizon for 24 square miles.
We're very concerned that transformers which are prone to overheating could possibly have a massive malfunction, spilling the 40,000 gallons of oil into our fishing beds, our clam flats, and our fishing grounds.
Renewable energy is about reducing the amount of fossil fuels that we burn and transport.
TOM BEARDEN: But even if no oil is ever spilled, commercial fisherman Ron Borjeson says the wind farm would totally disrupt the fishing industry.
Charles Vinick, president of an opposition group called the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, says the wind farm would endanger these animals.
TOM BEARDEN: Supporters of the wind farm counter that the greatest danger to wildlife comes from global warming, caused in part by fossil fuel used at facilities like the cape's Canal Power Plant.
And so we feel very strongly that this project moves this country in the right direction in terms of our energy policy.
TOM BEARDEN: But some prominent environmentalists adamantly oppose Cape Wind.
Earlier this fall, Greenpeace demonstrators confronted Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s sailboat, heckling the environmental attorney for his opposition to the Cape Wind project, despite his long-standing support for alternative energy.
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