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I looked at the pictures on the Cape Wind web site. It is more of an eye sore than I thought it would be. I thought the wind mills would be so far off that noone would be bothered, like the view from Martha's Vineyard. But the people on Cape Cod will have kind of an industrial looking view out at sea. It's not quite as benign as I imagined. Not a reason to kill the project outright. But it is more of a factor than I thought it would be. 24.225.177.164 23:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I've become interested in this topic, and the thing I'm having a hard time finding is how this site was chosen in the first place. I'd like to add something myself, but with quite a bit of Googling, all I find seems to have this as the location right from the beginning. To me, that really fuels the fire of the controversy. Does anyone have some more information? Cirejcon 19:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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In any event, very little oil is used in electric generation in the US today. So the Cape Wind project may not have an effect on oil tankers (though I support the project for other reasons) --Amcalabrese 22:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Very little oil is used for electric generation, except on Cape Cod. The Canal Power Plant, located on the Cape Cod side of the canal just north of the Sagamore bridge, is an old plant that is still powered by bunker oil. The Cape Wind project would directly offset the amount of oil needed to power Cape Cod. Publicus 14:19, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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What is the purpose of having Don Young's photo in the article?

There are several Mass. opponents, including Sen. Kennedy. Why is Young's photo in the article? --rogerd 02:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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My edits

I didn't "mass delete" anything, I brought the text up to date. Don Young's proposal is no longer what's in the bill; a compromise has been struck, which my edits described. I did remove some redundancies, of course. (We don't need to mention twice that the governor can nix it.) I'd be glad to discuss any specific objections you have to my changes, but my version is more accurate and, I think, written better. $2 pistol 12:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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Make Clear the Source of Current Cape Electricity

Some time ago I edited the article to include information on the current source of electricity for the Cape and most of the info was deleted. I didn't restore it, but it does seem relevant to me. Last I heard, only 2% of the US's electricity comes from burning oil, and with oil prices what they are, I suspect this has dropped. This means that most of the time the idea of wind power reducing oil usage is largely a myth. (only indirectly, like for replacing heating oil usage with electrical heat, but the same could be said for coal, nuclear, natural gas, etc.) But for Cape Cod, 45% of the current electricity comes from a powerplant that burns bunker oil and natural gas. While I'm not clear how much that powerplant currently burns in the way of oil (especially given current oil prices), the fact remains that the Cape Wind project is one of the few places in the country where wind power has the potential to directly offset petroleum usage. The article makes references to the project offsetting oil usage, but without describing the oil burning powerplant, how this is possible isn't made clear. And wasn't that powerplant the reason the oil tanker that crashed was near Cape Cod in the first place? My edits about the powerplant and its fuel sources were made on 1/19/2006. Please look into restoring that information, especially the links.

And done. My original edit did include sources, but it got wiped out anyway. I made note that Cape Wind would directly offset petroleum usage and noted below the edit that while it wasn't an oil spill, a recent (April, 2003) barge accident killed a lot of birds and shutdown 100,000 acres of shell fishing beds. That barge was carrying oil for the powerplant and such trips would likely be far rarer if the Cape Wind project were completed. I don't know where the spilled oil from the tanker was destined for. Are there any nearby refineries or was the powerplant the only possible destination?

Like I said above, the deletion occured on 1/19/2006 so if you go back in the history you can pinpoint when it was wiped out. I doubt it was vandalism and was probably most likely someone (mistakenly) believing that the info was irrelevant to the article. Still, since there is a controvery over Cape Wind, I guess it could have been a deletion by someone opposed to the project, though that sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. It's a moot point now that it's back, though.

Since America used to burn a considerable amount of oil for electricity, the Argo Merchant's oil might have been intended for a non-refinery source such as a powerplant in or near Boston. The oil was No. 6 fuel oil, which means it was already refined and that kind of oil would not make the best heating oil. ...Yeah, it was probably intended for a Boston powerplant. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.115.143 (talk o contribs) 23:17, 18 June 2006

Since a wind farm displaces some multiple of its weight in coal, the diesel fuel burned to construct the wind farm is probably somewhat less than the diesel fuel to mine and ship the equivalent amount of coal. However, it is true that wind farms in the US are not yet big offsetters of petroleum use. Cape Wind would be one of the rare exceptions. The Pickens Plan is one medium-term strategy to use wind farms to reduce petroleum consumption, by freeing up natural gas from power generation which could then power CNG-fueled heavy trucks, buses, and trains. Electrification of transport in the longer term could allow wind power to displace motor fuel directly, and seems necessary to meet the challenges of peak oil and global warming. --Teratornis (talk) 07:36, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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External Links Section

In the external links section, the link to the capecodonline poll showing 80% approval is dead (I marked this as such on the main page, I am new, however, and unsure whether this was the correct action (tried to follow the Wikipedia:Cite_sources page). I could not find the page on archive.org or google cache, and some quick googling showed different results [1] [2]. I did not remove the link, as it did not seem to follow guidelines - is anyone able to find a working link to the poll mentioned? --Xul 03:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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POV

Article needs some serious cleanup to be in compliance with WP:NPOV and WP:ATT. Some examples:

• "...focus on its ability to displace oil and gas consumption with clean, locally produced energy as well as the project being the best option for much needed new generating capacity."
• "One of the reasons supporters like this project has to do with the potential for less oil to be used or shipped to the Cape Cod power plant."

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Proposed merge

Oppose merge. I don't see the need to merge Cape Wind Associates with this article. In fact, I think it would confuse things. Johnfos (talk) 02:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppose, they are two different things. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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Bot report : Found duplicate references !

In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

• "sur" :
  • [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-15-2007/0004646292&EDATE= Survey: Leadership on Cape Wind, Other Clean Energy Solutions to Global Warming Seen as Path to New 'Massachusetts Miracle']
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Locator map

Here is a location map template showing where Cape Wind will be. It may be possible to use the same template method to put a location marker onto the map in File:Massachusetts wind resource map 50m 800.jpg. Or the location map can go into the article in addition to the wind resource map. Comments? --Teratornis (talk) 07:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Opinion piece reverted

I rolled back these contributions by a new user. The edits violated WP:NPOV, WP:RS, and WP:NOR. --Teratornis (talk) 02:49, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce poll

I've edited the recent addition of the results of a Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce poll to reflect what the cited sources say. The Chamber polled its members, not the general public. Also note that press releases are not considered WP:reliable sources. If you want to include the Herald poll or the claim the electric rtes would double, you will need sources for those statements, not a press release. Also note the article already points out that the ballot questions were in towns not on the Cape. Repeating that is arguing a position. --agr (talk) 17:47, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

(1) That the article provides a suspect air of having Cape Wind involvement or agenda is suggested by its very-public-relations-type spin and phrasing such as "best wind... by far", "the project envisions", "permits to be granted (not reviewed) as the project proceeds", etc. Further the article states - at its very beginning - that the status of the project is "approved", without mention of any of the on-going lawsuits and even disagreements within the Federal, State, and local governments as to how it will - ultimately - legally meet all Federal regulatory and Constitutional restrictions on private corporate development taking place on Federal (Public) lands. The article also completely omits any reference to very real and specific dissension that has taken place within the ranks of the the Audubon Club; the NRDC, and other environmental groups that officially approved the project based almost solely on its greenhouse gas mitigation, despite serious concerns by even the National Park Service and local Native-American tribes.

(2) The section entitled "Books" makes no suggestion whatsoever as to whether the the author's "statement" that the project is only opposed by "a very small group of people, with more money than most of us can possibly imagine..." even begins to approach fact, although this assertion haunts other portions of the article. I am a life-long Massachusetts resident - a proud working-middle-class American who took a twenty-five-year career jaunt into State government and major non-profit institutions as a Historical Architect and Preservation Specialist, and who also possesses a degree in Public Communications where I studied "uses of propaganda" courses under both Howard Zinn and Murray Yaeger ---- so I have had ample opportunity to well-witness manipulation created by media, government, corporate, and academic sources, and can well-recognize their motives. I can promise you that this working-class Massachusetts resident both values the viewshed of the natural resource known as Cape Cod Sound, and values it as a public place of escape and recreation free of both audible and visual intrusion. And I can provide the statements of at least three-dozen other working-class Massachusetts residents who feel the same.

(3) The entire section on "Public Opinion" is based on "surveys" and polls taken by questionable pro-corporate sources that are even more suspect than those that recently predicted Mitt Romney would by now be our next President of the United States. Not one of them asks direct questions pertaining to respondents opinions on visual intrusiveness and disturbance while recreating on public beaches, etc. I refer to my earlier statement above: I can provide the statements of at least three-dozen working-middle-class Massachusetts residents who support alternative, "clean energy" sources but feel the proposed Cape Sound project is at the very least visually intrusive and, if built, an industrial-appearing blight on what could be considered our very-publicly-owned ocean-front "Grand Canyon" (indeed, the section "Federal"(review) states that the National Park Service ruled that Nantucket Sound is eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its cultural and spiritual significance. As a Preservation Professional, I personally would compare the project to the rise of an excessive amount of telephone poles in cities and urban areas at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century). Further, anyone who has ever lived and breathed in the United States will be at least minimally aware that thirty-to-seventy-five-percent of citizens are never even contacted during such polls --- I have never been contacted in my 53 years on any poll or survey, none of those I asked were ever polled or surveyed on Cape Wind, and just the very idea that the poor, the working-class, and others who are either desperately busy trying to survive and/or too economically marginalized to even consider maintaining a newspaper subscription (talk about being connected to the internet or attending public meetings), have in any way been included in this "community input" is patently absurd, and thus quoting and citing such polls and surveys is absurd, exclusive, and a means of manipulating information to achieve pre-desired results.

(4) The Section on "2012 Election" suggests that opposing Cape Wind is somehow restricted to those with a politically conservative agenda (actually to those who help create the Republican Party's agenda). I can promise you that very few of those I refer to in the paragraphs above are either registered Republicans or consider themselves in any way politically conservative. However, in the Section "Controversy", another suggestion that wealthy liberals have a personal agenda - and the power - to stop the project, begins to erode even the entire central premise and credibility of the article. It brings into question whether Massachusetts citizens have indeed received accurate information about the project to make an informed decision about it... it also erodes the idea that they can indeed trust anyone, including the proponents and developers of Cape Wind who - again - are not non-political angels from heaven but rather documented career-businessmen and salesmen who realistically have profit and ego as their primary incentives for the project, as clearly suggested by interviews of the project's chief Jim Gordon Above by (Norumbegan (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC))

Orphaned references in Cape Wind

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Reference named "USowStrategy":

• From List of offshore wind farms in the United States: A national offshore wind strategy: Creating an offshore wind energy industry in the United States page iii U.S. Department of Energy, 7 February 2011. Accessed: 8 February 2011. "no wind turbines are installed in U.S. waters"
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• From Atlantic Wind Connection: A national offshore wind strategy: Creating an offshore wind energy industry in the United States page 33 U.S. Department of Energy, 7 February 2011. Accessed: 8 February 2011.

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