Results tagged “capewind”

• With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [Boston Herald]

• Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the Disability Law Center against the Department of Correction that was headed for an out of court settlement. [Boston Globe]

Two Native American tribes from Massachusetts are objecting to the Cape Wind wind-turbine project, citing the potential damage to "spiritual sun greetings and submerged ancestral burying grounds." According to the Globe, the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag tribes want to add Nantucket Sound to the National Register of Historic Places. The Globe also reported that the tribes' opposition to the project could delay, but not necessarily stop, the entire project. People seem to like the idea of Cape Wind unless they like to sail there. Bostonist has a suggestion to solve the newest dispute: Attach a floating casino to the Cape Wind project.

Lyme disease cases are up 39% over last year in Nantucket. The island's rate of Lyme infection is abnormally high, almost on par with the island's other unspeakable affliction: opposition to the Cape Wind project. If only there were a way to coordinate the two epidemics.

--Divers are looking for the body of a man who somehow went from the Mass Pike into Sudbury River last night. [Boston Globe]

This week, the Civil Society Institute released survey results that showed 82 percent of people in Massachusetts approved of Cape Wind, which would install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The news came out just as Cape Wind supporters were pushing for US Rep Ed "Biz" Markey to publicly back the project. {They are not lobbying Senator Ted Kennedy, who, in a fit of NIMBYism, has opposed the project from the get-go because Nantucket Sound is his backyard.)

--Logan Airport is getting wind turbines. And we look to opponents of Cape Wind to ask, "So, what's your issue with wind power again?" [Boston Globe]

--Find out where to meet up on March 6 to ask Rep. Ed Markey (aka "Biz Markey") to support Cape Wind. [Blue Mass Group, more on Cape Wind from Bostonist]

Massachusetts is the hot battlefield for wind energy. What happens here will no doubt impact how seriously wind is taken as an alternative energy source in the rest of the United States. And, last week, a lot happened regarding wind energy that didn't have anything to do with Cape Wind.

--This week, legislators will consider banning all hand-held gadgets while driving. [Boston Globe]

Update: Greenpeace sent out a statement regarding Cape Wind. Greenpeace approves, with a caveat: "While the review is positive, it does point out that Cape Wind needs to minimize the impacts to avian species. We, along with others alarmed by the climate crisis, look forward to participating in the public feedback process of this review and doing all we can to bring this important global warming solution to Massachusetts."

Cape Wind has already suffered delays galore as opponents figure out what else they can study about the wind farm in Nantucket Sound--and they've received another delay for Christmas.

Despite the efforts of those who don't want wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, the Cape Wind project keeps coming back like a pissed-off zombie. Opponents may try to kill it, but Cape Wind springs back to life with continued vigor. Cape Wind opponents might want to bar the door this time because the AP has reported that contributions to the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound have dropped. The Alliance raised $2 million in 2006--a hefty...

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--A fire happened at Fenway Park this morning while construction workers were removing a temporary luxury suite. The fire was quickly put out, and no one was hurt. [WBZ] --A cousin of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley died Friday night in a fire in her Hyannis home. [Boston Globe] --The Air Force has found that Cape Wind wouldn't impact one of its radar stations. In an impressive NIMBY effort, Representative William Delahunt wanted to...

Today, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi presented a major renewable energy bill today that will be debated next week. Right after DiMasi's announcement and also in the State House, authors Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb gave a presentation to legislators about a specific way to achieve that goal--investment in wind energy.

"Authorial Intent" wraps up book events for the week in the Boston area. Wednesday, October 24 Chris Matthews, 6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner (via Brookline Booksmith), $5 Recently, Jon Stewart sank his fangs into Matthews for pimping the concept that "Life's a Campaign," which is, admittedly, a little scary. Bostonist prefers the old saw that life is a bowl of cherries. Watch what Matthews has dubbed the "interview from hell," and you'll already be armed with...

Bostonist has followed the Cape Wind story intently ever since reading Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb's book on the subject. The Cape Wind plan, which would install turbines in Nantucket Sound, would make an excellent source of alternative energy. But residents--particularly wealthy residents who don't want their views blocked by turbines*--have gone to unbelievable lengths to block the project at every angle. The Cape Wind opponents scored another point in the battle on Thursday. The...

Mayor Menino has gone so green that he might end up looking like Kermit the Frog. First Menino laid out his plan to improve life for cyclists in the city, and now he's drawing inspiration from Cape Wind by proposing wind turbines for City Hall Plaza. The Globe reported on Saturday that the mayor wants a single turbine that can "generate up to one-quarter of the electricity used at City Hall." Globe writer Peter Howe...

If you thought Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy has been around forever, you would be right. The man is old. And Congress has proof - he was recently honored for casting his 15,000th roll call vote in the Senate. The only ones who beat him are the still-alive-but-barely Robert Byrd and the dead-as-a-doornail Strom Thurmond. It's finally a bit of good news for Kennedy, whose family recently encountered a White Van Man, whose ex-wife was found...

Now that it's fall and writers are stepping out for tours, we'll be offering a spotlight on the best of the week's readings. You'll still see book reviews and interviews with authors, but "Authorial Intent" will help you get the jump on tickets so you don't wind up out in the cold. Also, it's impossible to read everything, so please e-mail Bostonist if "Authorial Intent" misses anything. Thursday, September 6, 7:00 pm, Robert Whitcomb and...

We interviewed former gubernatorial candidate, businessman, and man-about-the-state Christy Mihos. Mihos has taken an active role against Cape Wind, the proposal to install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, and he has offered an alternate proposal to install wind turbines at his chain of convenience stores. We told him up front that we were pro-Cape Wind, but we've run a lot of pro-Cape Wind posts, and we wanted to give him equal time to talk about...

So yelled Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones when he stopped a kid from flying a kite on a Cape beach. Jones' investigation into the protest against Cape Wind, the project to build wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, revealed exactly why so many powerful people want to stop the project. The powerful people could have talked to him, but he and author Wendy Williams discovered that not just anyone can get close to the Kennedy Compound,...

Imagine our dismay when we tuned in to the "Daily Show" on Thursday night to witness their piece on Cape Wind when we saw some lame piece about Clinton and Obama sniping at each other. Was Cape Wind not funny enough for the "Daily Show"? How could a story that involves the immortal line "You are a traitor to your class" not appeal to the "Daily Show"? Well, never fear. Wendy Williams, co-author of Cape...

Christy Mihos - former wild-card candidate for governor, best known for running an animated ad showing Big Dig officials sticking their own heads up their butts – is co-chair of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the group that vociferously opposes Cape Wind. Recently, it looked like Mihos was stepping up to the plate with an actual alternative to the original Cape Wind plan, which would put turbines in Nantucket Sound. He volunteered the sites...

If ever there was grist for the Daily Show mill, it is the fight between the richies and the environmentalists over the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Finally, the Daily Show has aimed its laserlike focus on the Cape, and the results are tentatively scheduled to air Thursday, August 2. The Daily Show selected Jason Jones, the correspondent most likely to take his shirt off, to send to the Cape. Brace yourselves for shots...

Yesterday Massachusetts and Texas were recipient of a whole heap of grant money to test new wind turbines. This isn't part of Cape Wind at all, the grant provides funding for massive wind power blades to be tested in East Boston in Charlestown, not in Nantucket Sound. The Cape Wind project has created a bunch of flap from aristocrats griping about the potential for an oceanic wind farm to obstruct their view, this $2 million...