Cape Wind was supposed to be America’s first offshore wind project. Chief sponsor Jim Gordon labored since 2001 (14 years!) on his vision of 130 massive spinning fans sited in shallow federal waters off New England’s historic coastline (468 MW at maximum capacity). Mr. Gordon was the darling of environmental groups and green-minded politicos who pushed big wind at any price.
Last week, the project was dealt a fatal blow when utilities who contracted to buy the energy terminated their agreements. Cape Wind will never be built, and no amount of green-colored optimism will change that fact.
h/t Don B.
Damn Bird chopping windturbines the stupid greens who support them i hope they lose millions over this whole stupid mess
Kennedy only fought these because he would drift into one when planking an intern on his boat. After fighting offshore drilling in that area he was photographed boinking some unfortunate intern in his motorboat in 89 to which when shown the pictures Howell Heflin quipped something like “it appears the senator has changed his stance on offshore drillin”. If there had been some grease pushed Teds way he would have been all in.
Lawfare can be a two edged sword. It swings both ways Lefties.
Unfortunately, Spurwing, the article makes it clear that whether the Warmunists win or lose, the taxpayers foot the bill both ways.
-$150 million guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy
That’s $150M that someone walked away with. Jim Gordon perhaps?
$10.7 million and change per annum for 14 years and no work done.
Nice job if you can get one. The Great Global Warming Swindle.
Hundreds of Thousands of birds have been saved,
even those damn seagulls 🙂
yay! except…
“As long as a legal proceeding is pending against Cape Wind, investors are likely to take their money elsewhere.”
likely likely likely
Awwww, just go ahead and build it. I’m sure Ontario will buy it if it’s green.
More good news.
http://northeastwindmills.com/pioneer-green-energy-quits-wind-project-in-north-east-pa/
Just reading this brief summary should tell everyone with a brain that wind is no solution. 138 turbines covering a vast amount of prime ocean front to supply about 1 conventional turbine worth of power, when it’s windy. A new gas turbine facility could do that quietly humming away in an existing industrial park in less than an acre space. Taking in the total life cycle, the new gas plant will result in less CO2 emissions.
Much as I detest the idiot notion that wind power is a viable source of electricity, I have to disagree that this is truly a win for the good guys. A win for the good guys would be to have these monstrosities in the aquatic backgrounds of the Kennedys, Kerrys, and other assorted like nitwits, ruining their million dollar views and playgrounds.
A coal fired station can do the same, and more economically
Quite right. The only thing this showed is that rich snots 1. can get anything they don’t like shuffled off to someone else’s back yard, and 2. that the rich snots like wind power just fine as long as someone else has to host them (and preferably not interfering with their yachting).
I think we should take a note from Cape Wind.
This was litigated against for a decade, including support against it from politicians.
If people can hold up a pipeline for 7 years, then they’re saying that we should be able to hold up any wind farm for at least as long 😉
My comment on the article regarding the Liberal Party Of Ontario/Canada contributions to their party faithful at five times the $.18 promised to the Massachusetts investors, plus a comment about how the bird choppers seem to be located in the ridings of taxpayers and voters who do not vote Liberal only lasted about 15 seconds in their comment section.
Tie some enviromentalists wacko to the blades of a wind turbine and want for a Hurricane
Off shore wind is even higher cost than solar. At least solar has potential sometime in the future. Is this tilting at windmills idiocy finally coming to an end?