Nearly six years ago Jim Kinsella, now an award-winning editor at the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, wrote the first news story about the Cape Wind proposal. Kinsella wondered in his short news item in early June, 2001, if project proponents were serious.
Six year later, we have had an opportunity to see just how serious they are. After spending more than $30 million, Cape Wind developers still aren’t backing down. (Project opponents have spent an incredible $15 million trying to make proponents disappear.)
Meanwhile, in Delaware, an offshore wind project proposed by Bluewater Wind, an excellent company, has the massive support of the majority of citizens.
Despite heavy lobbying from coal companies, last week the state’s Public Service Commission gave the thumbs up to Bluewater Wind’s 100-turbine proposal.
Next on the docket: Agreement with PSC’s decision by several other state boards. Some voters down there worry that the boards are too closely connected to coal.
We’ll have to wait and see.