Hi, I’m Mark Rodgers, Communications Director of Cape Wind and I want to personally welcome you to our new Cape Wind Voices blog!
Cape Wind Voices will serve as a platform for those of us at Cape Wind to share our impressions of the project.
It will also serve as a location for you to read guest blog entries. Individuals who represent organizations that care about Cape Wind will voice their perspectives on how Cape Wind fits into a broader context of advancing the goals of their organizations.
I have always felt that, unique among other issues, energy sits right at the crossroads of so many of the greatest challenges we face: jobs/economy, health/environment, climate change, national/military security, and international relations.
Honestly, when I agreed to take this job in January, 2002, I could never have imagined just how long a path we had in front of us. I am as excited now as I was back then to be working on an influential project. Cape Wind can help move our country in the direction of a cleaner and more hopeful energy future.
Over the past eight years, I have spoken about Cape Wind to community groups, street fairs and festivals on Cape Cod and the Islands, and have been privileged to meet so many wonderful people. As a resident of Cape Cod, I hear people’s perspectives about Cape Wind regularly, whether doing errands or going to a social outing, sometimes because the person I’m speaking with knows what I do for a living or sometimes just totally by chance because it is an issue that is on people’s minds.
The distinct and overwhelming impression I have as summer of 2009 draws toward a close is that the tide is turning, in so many ways, in the direction of Cape Wind. Public support on the Cape and Islands has grown to what I believe is now a clear majority and we know that the statewide support is at an eye-popping level of 86%.
The project has been vetted more fully than any power project in the history of New England, and people know it. Cape Wind’s benefits have been verified, while the doom and gloom prognostications put forward by some over the years have been found to be lacking under the glare of analysis by independent third parties and government agencies.
A project like Cape Wind is where the rubber meets the road, a chance to actually do what so many of us have been calling for, for so long – to really start making the transition, now, toward a clean and sustainable energy future. This will be a long road, but the potential for offshore wind power to power the lights of the northeast U.S. and mid-Atlantic states is vast and getting to work now on actually building Cape Wind is the key to unlocking this potential.
Thanks for checking out the Cape Wind Voices blog, and please come back often!
Mark
PS: And I want to personally thank Cape Wind supporter Heather Moser for her help, persistence and patience in first suggesting and then helping to implement Cape Wind’s utilization of a blog, Twitter and Facebook.
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14 Comments
September 2, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Cape Wind — Congratulations on launching your blog. I look forward to reading your entries.
September 2, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Great idea Mark!…
Can’t wait to tangle with well paid pundits opposing the project on less than realistic & fact based reasoning.
CAPE WIND… The project defining the future of offshore renewable energy in the 21st century!
September 3, 2009 at 12:28 pm
My hat is off to you people for persevering though the political morass of hypocrites. It is my hope that your project is built and serves as a model for other off shore wind projects
September 3, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Mark:
As the world looks ahead to the climate meeting in Copenhagen in December, the importance of getting Cape Wind has never been more clear. The United States must begin to walk the talk on climate, environment and renewable energy. Your good work in communicating the benefits of renewable energy is winning more support from the American people every day. Best wishes for getting Cape Wind built and operational, generating clean energy for New England. I myself was born in Chelsea and have lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut, so I’m a local cheering you on, from down here in Washington, DC.
Best regards,
Mike
September 3, 2009 at 1:34 pm
This is a great idea Mark. I’ll be following your blogs!
September 4, 2009 at 10:34 am
have you seen the Friends of a Green Planet opposing the coastal wind project interview?
September 10, 2009 at 7:26 am
Friends of a Green Planet’s second interview is even more enlightening.
September 4, 2009 at 11:12 am
Cape Wind Voices is a welcome addition to The Cape Wind Cause! Just maybe a central focus should be the Cape Wind Petition to the highly regarded President of The United State of America … President Obama.
Ask people to pledge support for clean energy as exemplified Cape Wind. Each time you gain 100,000 signers forward it to the President. Each time you cross the million mark hold a parade and when 2010 arrives take it to Washington for a real march to end this thoughtless delay. Invite all the Great Green ‘dot-orgs’ to join with you in pushing the Cape Wind Petition! They will provide links and even coverage for this worthy cause!
The Time Has Come.
Let Cape Wind Be Done.
Lets do it!
robert
September 4, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Hi, Mark, the blog is a great way for all of us out here to keep in touch with what’s going on with Cape Wind. Good to see your face up there! I now live on the other side of the country, and am still cheering you from afar. I’ll be back for the boating tour of the completed project!!
Scott
September 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm
From the get-go, I felt it was a perfect plan. Wind galore, between bodies of land and water which produce endless thermals…what a source of energy!
It is a basically NIMBY-less locale, since who actually lives there!? Who could legitably complain…no one!
It’s on TOP of the need for energy along the eastern coast, and right next to the electrical grid! Who could plan it better?
Even now, with the ecomomy in the tank, there are still people willing to undermine this project. Are they mindless?
Yes, they are!
September 29, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Gee, I Hope So….Westwood and Sandwich ,Ma. The time has come for the WIND . TKS Cape Wind Bob
September 29, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Although I reside “west of Worcester” as Bostonians like to say, I have followed the battle for Cape Wind from the very onset, often writing campaign notes to parties in power who came out in loud, vocal opposition to this cause which I have known will be of great benefit. It has been almost embarrassing at times to see groups in our Commonwealth who like to use the term “green” digging for arguments against Cape Wind, and continually coming up short. This fight has taken much too long – we lost the opportunity to set an early example for our country. Although that chance has passed, we can still show that finally the right has prevailed!
September 30, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hi Mark, I think this blog is a wonderful tool with which many folks will learn more about and share information regarding Cape Wind. Thanks and keep up all your great work.. Let the construction begin!
September 30, 2009 at 8:22 pm
The sad irony is that the turbines
really should have went up in 1973.
Nonetheless,
Thank You-
You’re accomplishing something terrific
and I really hope this project and ones
like it flourish for the years to come.