When: Saturday, February 28, 1:00pm
Where: Boston Common
Fourteen years after it was initially proposed, the nation’s first offshore wind farm is in trouble. Relentless lawsuits by oil and gas billionaire Bill Koch have left the Cape Wind project hanging on by a thread. The project’s fate rests in the hands of Marcy Reed, President of National Grid in Massachusetts, who has been a vocal supporter of Cape Wind in the past. By honoring National’s Grid pledge to buy 50% Cape Wind’s power, she can keep the project alive!
Join us on Saturday, February 28 as we call on Marcy Reed to save Cape Wind!
Further details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1563903180562786
One Response to “Rally to Save Cape Wind”
Cape Wind fell on its own lacking merits. No customers (PPA contracts), financing, or turbines since 2001.
Cape Wind refused to place $1.8 million at risk to extend their PPA contract. If Cape Wind lacks faith in Cape Wind, why should public fund 60% of project cost of $2.6 bn to triple our energy cost?
Cape Wind promised local jobs. That’s why Mass Tank invested $500,000 in their company to manufacture wtg foundations. But, Cape Wind reneged and decided to create manufacturing jobs in Europe, to be funded by U.S. citizens.
NYT
‘U.S. Offshore Wind Farm, Made in Europe’
1/22/14
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/business/energy-environment/us-offshore-wind-farm-made-in-europe.html?_r=0
If Marcy Reed wasn’t hooked by the $6 million annual adder to NGrid per year in their Cape Wind contract, I don’t think 100 pinwheels will change this outcome.