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Offshore Wind Power Coalition to Call on Congress

April 20, 2006 | 3 Comments

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Washington, DC [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] A new coalition representing a diverse mix of representatives from industry, labor, maritime and the environment will hold a press conference Thursday, April 20 at 10 a.m. at the National Press Club to announce a campaign to urge Congress to reject an amendment inserted into a Coast Guard Bill by a small number of Congressmen and Senators in Conference Committee.

The organizations participating in the press conference include American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Cape Wind, Clean Power Now, Conservation Law Foundation, Greenpeace, Lehman Brothers, National Ocean Industries Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

This backroom amendment pushed by special interests would unfairly target Cape Wind, and undermine America's quest for energy independence and Congress' call for more renewable energy. The amendment would also be a setback to legislative transparency, states the release.

The organizations participating in the press conference include American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Cape Wind, Clean Power Now, Conservation Law Foundation, Greenpeace, Lehman Brothers, National Ocean Industries Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

For more information, see the action alert at the following website.

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nitin-goel-48373

April 21, 2006

Although I haven't gone into the real dtls of the amendment but on the looks of it all I can say is that it is really unfortunate to derail the progress work on the off-shore wind energy development. World has lot of expections from USA on the technology developmnt front on the Wind Energy. To halt the progress on commissioning of off- shore wind turbines would mean hurting the entire R & D work of the off-shore wind industry. I hope the amendment would not be put into force without taking in cogniscence the views of Wind Energy stakeholders.

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jeff-anderson-44139

April 22, 2006

Since the likes of Ted Kennedy don't like this offshore wind project. We could just put in a coal fired power plant some place along the shore. A nice spot would be oh let's say the Ted Kennedy's home. Oh we could use eminate domain to take his land from him. This would be after all in the publics best interest. After all this would provide cheap reliable power, but it would not be clean with all the polution.

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jon-nickerson-12770

April 24, 2006

The negative tone of your article is not up to your own publishing standards. Whether you agree or disagree with the amendment, the fact remains that the US Federal government does not have any regulation in place to specifically address off shore wind farm siting. Anyone falling prey to the label assigned by Cape Wind to all opposition, that of NIMBY, is completely irresponsible for not doing their research and noting the array of other issues that this project poses.

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