{"id":1802,"date":"2010-04-19T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2010-04-19T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T07:28:37","slug":"when_green_energy_comes_to_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"When ‘Green Energy’ Comes To Your Front Door…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Washington Times<\/a> reports that President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will announce by April 30 whether or not backers of the Cape Wind Project off Cape Cod Massachusetts will be able to proceed with their project.<\/p>\n

The project had been opposed by the late Senator Kennedy.  Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick supports the project, Senator Kerry has been publicly noncommittal, and newly-elected Senator Scott Brown says he generally supports wind power, but does not support Cape Wind.  <\/p>\n

As a resident of Massachusetts who lives in an all-electric house, I have a few questions.  If this wind farm goes forward, how much of the electricity in Massachusetts will it provide?  How will it impact the cost of electricity for Masschusetts residents?  What impact will it have on fishing off the coast of Massachusetts?<\/p>\n

This project was first announced in 2001.  It seems as if the answers to the above questions should be fairly easy to find, but when I did a ‘google’ search, I got a lot of entries and very little information.  One of the points I did find was that because the consumer would have to pay for the construction of the wind farm, electricity rates would actually go up.  I also learned that since only 3 percent of Massachusetts’ electricity is oil-generated, the wind farm will have no impact on oil imports.  I also came across an article that explained that Denmark, a leader in wind energy, is moving away from wind and considering nuclear energy.  Although wind energy is ‘green energy’ it does have some risks–there are concerns about how wind farms affect the bird population of an area.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.  I really don’t think I have enough information to form an opinion at this point, and I suspect there are many other people who feel that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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