And the Middleboro Board of Selectmen? Or the G&E? The sound you hear is silence. Why be pro-active or search for solutions when it's not their money? They can just pass the increases along, as the costs for other blunders, like the landfill, have been passed along.
Energy policy seems to be guided by hypocrisy, like Congressman Patrick Kennedy or the short-sighted opposition of wealthy vested interests who don't want their views spoiled.
~ 85 % of Americans live along the coasts. The aggressive implementation of ALL alternative energy sources specifically targeting those areas has significant implications in reducing dependence on imported oil, especially New England.
Previous posts include links for tidal wave action power generation that holds great promise.
Cape Wind estimated that production would provide 75% of the power needed on the Cape. Can we afford to cater to the wealthy because they don't want their view spoiled?
As the energy bill moves forward in the Commonwealth Senate, watch for the vested interests' rhetoric disquised as environmental concern intended to delay or stall ALL projects to the detriment of consumers.
It takes a town 23,000 residents of Reading want to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions created where they live
SANTA CLAUS VISITS THE TOWN OF READING EVERY THANKSGIVING weekend. He ascends a stepladder in the classic New England town square and throws a ceremonial switch that sets oaks and maples aglow with energy-guzzling incandescent bulbs. But last year, officials proudly announced that two maples near Town Hall held strings of efficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, for the first time. The LEDs cost more upfront but consume just one-10th the electricity of incandescent bulbs, and they should last 20 holiday seasons.The change seemed to be a no-brainer. After all, the bedroom community 12 miles north of Boston is one of 36 municipalities in Massachusetts (45 total in New England) that have signed on with Cities for Climate Protection, a campaign to help communities tally greenhouse-gas emissions and devise ways to reduce them. With guidance from this campaign - forged by the nonprofit International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, known as ICLEI - municipalities around the world are organizing to fill the void between personal action and national policy aimed at slowing global warming and climate change... CapeCodToday
Across the continent, on the southwestern edge of Cape Cod, researchers can dig three inches below the seabed in marshes and find diesel fuel that looks as if it was deposited just yesterday. It came from a 1969 barge accident that sent 175,000 gallons into the marshes near West Falmouth, Mass... InsideBayArea
Energy bill's turbine amendment stirs storm
The change, if adopted by the Senate next year, would remove a major hurdle to Boston developer Jay Cashman's controversial plan to build up to 120 wind turbines in Buzzards Bay.
WJAR political reporter Bill Rappleye asked, "how about a wind farm on Nantucket Shoals?," presumably a reference to Cape Wind, though he got the location wrong. Kennedy - "Ah, well, I mean, I think that, ah, certainly, I'm against the Cape Wind project if you're trying to get to that."Rappleye - "Why?"
Kennedy - "Why? Because I don't want to see a big, huge (spreading arms wide) Nantucket wind turbines in the middle of Horseshoe Shoal." (emphasis added, and throughout).
Kennedy - "Why? Because I don't want to see a big, huge (spreading arms wide) Nantucket wind turbines in the middle of Horseshoe Shoal." (emphasis added, and throughout).
Let's get rid of poisonous fossil fuel power plants and fossil politicians
Ambush at Eelgrass Pass
Trampled rights and muddied waters
By Peter Kenney
Trampled rights and muddied waters
By Peter Kenney
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