It might be hurricane season, but the storm blowing across Nantucket Sound is one of controversy. A private developer is designing a massive offshore power plant, but not your usual, much-maligned oil rig. Rather, it’s a green energy wind farm.
In today’s, “it’s all about oil,” climate, you’d think folks would be electrified in their support of alternative energy ideas. Not so. Even though the 170 turbines could power half of Cape Cod, the project faces searing opposition, especially from environmentalists.
Critics describe massive avian Cuisinarts, and an industrial infrastructure that will ravage an already fragile marine ecosystem and destroy a pristine seascape.
Guests:
James Gordon, President of Cape Wind Associates
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental attorney and anti-windfarm campaigner
Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace USA.