A plan to build a power-plant in Nantucket Sound covering 25 square miles - an area the size of Manhattan!
The project would be 130 wind turbines that stand 440' feet tall and a transformer sub-station 10 stories tall - the size of a parking garage (also filled with oil).
To take a step back, Nantucket Sound is the body of water surrounded by the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This body of water was once State Ocean Sanctuary, and has twice been nominated as a National Marine Ocean Sanctuary. Unfortunately, part of this body of water is not protected from industrial development because of a Supreme Court ruling that dealt with a number of states in the Northeast. Nantucket Sound is the only place in the continental United States where protected state waters surround unprotected federal waters.
In any given year, 3 million people cross the sound via ferry. Countless others use their own boats in this inner-coastal waterway.
The project would put many commercial fishermen out of business.
On average, Cape Wind would supply 2/3rds of the Cape and Islands energy needs.
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The project would be 130 wind turbines that stand 440' feet tall and a transformer sub-station 10 stories tall - the size of a parking garage (also filled with oil).
To take a step back, Nantucket Sound is the body of water surrounded by the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This body of water was once State Ocean Sanctuary, and has twice been nominated as a National Marine Ocean Sanctuary. Unfortunately, part of this body of water is not protected from industrial development because of a Supreme Court ruling that dealt with a number of states in the Northeast. Nantucket Sound is the only place in the continental United States where protected state waters surround unprotected federal waters.
In any given year, 3 million people cross the sound via ferry. Countless others use their own boats in this inner-coastal waterway.
The project would put many commercial fishermen out of business.
On average, Cape Wind would supply 2/3rds of the Cape and Islands energy needs.