By Clean Power Now and TheClean.org
A WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT’S GUIDE TO CAPE WIND/MARTHA’S VINEYARD
In addition to being the site of President Obama’s August 2009 vacation, Martha’s Vineyard is in the immediate vicinity of Cape Wind, which would be the United States’ first offshore wind park. The project involves 130 wind turbine towers in Horseshoe Shoals, a shallow area in the federal waters of Nantucket Sound, and would produce enough clean power for 75 percent of the Cape & Islands energy needs.
If you are doing stories about what is going on where the First Family will be taking its summer break, Cape Wind should be at the top of your list of things to cover. This “White House Correspondent’s Guide to Cape Wind” from Clean Power Now and TheClean.org sets out all of the background you will need to tell your story. In addition, we can supply you with (1) expert interviews on site in the Cape & Islands, (2) local community perspective on Cape Wind, (3) a tour of the Cape Wind site and (4) related cover video/simulations.
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BEST RESOURCES:
* Understanding Cape Wind: Answers to the 7 Most-Asked Questions
* Polls: 86% of State Residents/74% of Cape & Islands Residents Support Cape Wind
* Energy Independence: Slashing the Cape & Islands Dependence on Foreign Oil
* The View: What Cape Wind Turbines Will Really Look Like From the Shore (available video footage of offshore wind farm in Denmark)
* Simulations: Cape Wind views from land
* Fact v. Fiction: Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Cape Wind
* Harpooning the Fat Cat Opponents: August 7, 2007 Daily Show segment on Cape Wind
* How Does It Work? Quick Facts About Wind Energy
* Editorializing: on Cape Wind Opponents:
A) Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe
B) John Keller, WBZ-TV/Boston
C) Wall Street Journal
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Clean Power Now started on Cape Cod in 2003 and has grown to over 12,000 members strong. We are a non-profit grassroots organization informing citizens and empowering them to support viable renewable energy projects and policies, and to secure their local and regional benefits. We believe that the timely development of such projects, in conjunction with energy efficiency and conservation, will bring about a clean, healthy environment, an improved economy and a more secure, sustainable America. Our immediate focus is to increase citizen support of offshore wind power in Nantucket Sound.
Clean Power Now is an active member of TheClean.org, a collaborative movement of state and local organizations and individuals who will force and support policy makers at all levels of government to implement new energy policies. The policies we desire are based on decentralized control of energy, whereby energy is generated by regionally appropriate, reliable, and renewable resources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal.
Posted on August 13, 2009