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Sierra Club Supports Cape Wind
The Cape Cod Times reported here that the Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope announced support for the Cape Wind offshore wind project. Moreover, not only did Pope support the project, he had harsh words for its opponents:
Pope told Cape Cod Today, “This is a good project, and as long as it is built within the guidelines being developed by the ongoing process, we will support it.” Pope reserved his harshest criticism of organizations and individuals he intimated are fronting for interests who do not want wind energy to become a significant part of America’s future energy mix. “We have been very opposed to efforts to hijack the process and derail this project by people opposed to wind power,” the Sierra Club Executive Director said. “Some of the backers of these efforts have reasons other than ‘their view’ to oppose a project like this coming online.” Pope was referring to major funding sources and key directors of the Alliance to Project Nantucket Sound, who have extensive holdings in established energy related industries.
Marine renewables won’t succeed without the support of all stakeholders. Carl Pope’s comments show that the Sierra Club takes global warming seriously enough that it stands ready to explore new solutions.
Posted by headsetop on March 5th, 2007 filed in Offshore Wind
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May 13th, 2007 at 8:40 am
It’s too bad that so much of this support is almost blind to the technologies involved. Unreliable and uncontrollable energy geenrators like wind and the wave machines that do the same are not the answer to anything. They are more of an obstacle to achieving carbon neutrality. The amounts of money being thrown into these primitive and impotent technologies should be directed where it can actually acheive some good, for someone other than the international conglomerates that are building those 60 ton wind monstrosities and selling them for $2 million so they can produce less than a third of a megawatt of power, at odd times and in odd amounts. The green energy boys are ripping off the public again.