CAPE WIND ASSOCIATES vs. ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND

CAPE WIND ASSOCIATES vs. ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND





Henry David Thoreau’s book CAPE COD describes the natural beauty of the

Cape. Thoreau, if alive today would be enraged because of Cape Wind Associates’

plan to build 130 wind turbines. These turbines would stand 417 feet high on 24

square miles of Horseshoe Shoal (see attachment A) in Nantucket Sound. If

approved this wind farm would be the nation’s first and the largest in the world.

The average output could provide about 75% of the Cape’s usual electric demand

(www.capecodwind.org, visited March 3, 2003). However, the electricity generated

would be sold to the New England power grid for all users and not directly benefit

Cape Cod residents.


The potential developers, Cape Wind Associates, contend that this is “good for

Cape Cod” and will create a new source of economic activity and in doing so make

the Cape a domestic leader in renewable en...