Boston Globe says coast is clear for Cape Cod wind farm

The death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy removes the biggest obstacle to the Cape Wind windmill farm planned on Nantucket Sound, near Cape Cod. Now even the Boston Globe says it’s time that President Obama move ahead with the project.

The Globe editorializes:

Neither Obama nor his administration has yet weighed in on Cape Wind, the controversial 130-turbine wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound that could supply the electricity needs of more than 300,000 homes on the Cape and Islands. If Obama’s pledges for a greener economy are to be kept, his administration should not delay any longer the arduous process that began in 2001 to develop this clean energy source.

It’s one of the few alternative power proposals likely to produce new energy relatively fast and relatively cheap. And since we’re doing nothing to encourage more CO2-free nuclear plants or more domestic oil and gas, we’d better try and catch the wind.

Frank Warner