AWEA calls new wind regulations harmful & redundant

As Cape Cod received notice this week that their electric bills starting this month will rise over 80% and high demand for natural gas causes electricity prices to soar both here and abroad, wind farms in 30 states will supply clean, home-grown electricity to 2.5 million households this winter, reducing the need for gas-fired generation and giving consumers modest but badly needed price relief.

But not here on Cape Cod at the end of the pipeline where it is needed most. This won't happen here any time soon because to two self-serving anti-wind energy provisions inserted in two pending bills before the United States Congress by politicians with a personal stake in stopping the Cape Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound. According to the AWEA both these provisions would create unnecessary and costly extra hurdles for wind development at the very time our country urgently needs renewable energy most and new ways to diversify our energy mix. The American Wind Energy Association this week charged that both of these new provisions offer harmful bureaucratic “solutions” for nonexistent problems.