Positive spin for new wind-farm plan (Reuters/CNN)

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Proposed project for working-class area gets more support

Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Posted: 8:11 p.m. EDT (00:11 GMT)

NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Location. Location. Location. The axiom usually cited in valuing real estate could just as easily apply to offshore wind-power farms, it seems.

After a battle over plans to build the world's largest offshore wind-power farm within view of some of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts' Cape Cod resort region, a new proposal for a rival project in view of more working-class areas is drawing stronger support.

Boston, Massachusetts, construction contractor Jay Cashman Inc. Tuesday submitted formal plans to build a $750 million offshore wind turbine project in Buzzards Bay near Cape Cod that could generate up to 300 megawatts.

It is gathering tentative support from those who oppose a $900 million "Cape Wind" wind farm that would be visible from wealthy Nantucket Island and affluent Cape Cod towns such as Hyannisport, home to Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy's family compound.

The new proposal is also being cautiously welcomed in the working-class towns along Buzzards Bay such as New Bedford, a fishing port about 60 miles south of Boston where many residents hoped it would reduce rising energy bills.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/30/capecod.wind.reut/index.html

So .... NIRFBY ? (Not In Rich Folks' Back Yard)

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1. NIRBYs---not in richies' backyard--still, if it will reduce energy bills

for New Bedford and other towns, GO FOR IT. Let the richies pay their high electric bills. I'll take a wind turbine in my yard, no problem.

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2. Let them eat cake?

I don't want to bother my beautiful mind

[XemaSab]

3. I think Cape Cod is a really poor location for this

I think a few miles further north, right off the coast of a certain town in MAINE might be a better spot. :evilgrin: