Seven Villages, Janet Joakim

Our Last Chance!
(from our friends at SOS)

Monday, April 21st is our last chance to urge the federal Minerals Management Service to reject the Cape Wind project! If you have not yet submitted a comment, follow the four simple steps below. Please take a few minutes to protect Nantucket Sound – because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.

1. Click here to submit your comments online.

2. Fill in the requested information.

3. Submit your own comments or copy and paste the template below into the “Comment” section.

4. Click “Submit Comment.”

The Cape Wind Draft Environmental Impact Statement (PLN-GOM-0003) is flawed and grossly understates or ignores negative impacts that would unfairly burden the people of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard. Local stakeholders and elected officials are speaking out against the Cape Wind project and noting major deficiencies in the DEIS.

At $122 per MWh, Cape Wind electricity is projected to cost double the average current price of electricity in southeast Massachusetts, which is $66 per MWh as reported by ISO New England. Given this cost plus the massive state and federal subsidies that would accrue to Cape Wind, the project is too costly.

This expensive private venture relies heavily on taxpayer dollars, yet poses calculable risks to public safety, the environment, and the local economy – all of which are essentially dismissed by the Cape Wind DEIS. With an economy nearly as delicate as our unique ecosystem, the very fabric of Cape Cod and the Islands would be devastated by the needless and costly industrialization of our treasured Sound.

I urge you to deny Cape Wind and to find a responsible alternative location for much needed renewable energy.