Urgent: This Is It For Offshore Wind Energy

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Subject: Urgent: This Is It For Offshore Wind Energy
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Greenpeace

Dear xxx
21 April 2006
Save Cape Wind

Urgent Action >> Call on Congress to
Save Cape Wind 1-866-200-7070
Last week, I wrote to you about a back-door deal in Congress that's threatening to destroy America's first offshore wind project. Already nearly 18,000 of you have recognized the urgency of this situation and taken action. Thank you. But there's more to do and we can't stop now.

While you're paying close to $3.00 a gallon at the gas pump, Congress is secretly trying to kill big oil's competition, and only YOU can help us fight back.

Right now, the Senate holds the key to keeping offshore wind energy alive, so your senators need to hear from you TODAY.

Call 1-866-200-7070 now and we'll connect you instantly to your senators' offices, and provide you with exactly what you'll need to say to convince them to save the Cape Wind project.

Please, less than five minutes of your time could make a real difference in the future of renewable energy in our country, so take action.

After you've made the call, watch this great video and pass it along to all your friends and family - ask them to make a call too.

Thank you for all you have done,
Kate Smolski
Kate Smolski
Clean Energy/Cape Wind Campaigner

P.S. We need all the help we can get, so please, forward this message to every friend, family member, and coworker you have, and ask them to take action too. There's no better way I can think of to celebrate Earth Day and make a real difference.

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[Blue_In_AK]

1. This issue has made strange bedfellows...

I read in this morning's Anchorage Daily News that Ted Stevens and Don Young of Alaska have joined with Ted Kennedy to oppose this project. I'm highly confused.

[Poiuyt]

5. I seem to recall that Walter Cronkite was also against the project

He lives out there also and has a big sailboat

[glitch]

6. I think they are want to put the windmills a couple of miles out.

Not ban the whole project. I could be wrong.

[Poiuyt]

7. I saw a report on TV a year or two ago that said the windmills would

be way out to sea. I'm not sure if it was a couple of miles or not, but the windmills would look pretty tiny from land. (They had some simulations)

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. What exactly is an "offshore" wind project?

I don't know what this means.

[dmkinsey]

3. It's windmills to generate electricity

they want to put them in the water off Martha's Vineyard.
The locals are generally opposed to it on aesthetic grounds. Therefore their Senator is representing them and opposing it.
I imagine Sen Stevens is against it because it cuts into the extraction industries profits.

Windmills are not popular among people who live near them.

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. Ah, thanks

When I see "offshore" I think outsourcing.

California has a lot of windmill fields in big, windy stretches of land where there is no development. I guess not every state is fortunate enough to have that kind of open space.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Here is the address of the video

http://projectthinice.org/flash/whackamill_senators_lg.mov