Overlooked in today’s banter about an alternative renewable energy project proposed by venture capitalists to erect 130 wind turbines, each as tall as the Statue of Liberty rising from acres of the Nantucket Sound seabed is the fact that Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and the Atlantic around them are already successfully producing substantial renewable energy and have been doing so for ages.

It is renewable energy of the mind, heart and soul kind, that has long benefited people of the world community from ancient to present times, who visit or live here.

The key to success for alternative energy projects of the wind turbine industrial complex kind is siting. Targeting any portion of the Cape and Islands ocean sanctuary would conflict with its existing proven and progressive renewable energy program, which protects this region’s unique natural wealth.

The megaton wind turbine proposition and its attendant functional risk, hazardous potential and visual to noise pollution factors would be a destructive force to every aspect of this region’s priceless natural character and cultural heritage.

A wind turbine industry here would be a no-win investment. It would be a gross mismanagement of natural resource assets and it would set the wrong moral example in comparison to the region’s existing high natural renewable energy returns to Mankind and nature.

The scenery speaks for itself in its incomparable and irreplaceable value to nature and humanity now and in the future . . .

Kathy Sharp Frisbee
Photographer/Writer
May 10, 2005

www.kathysharpfrisbee.com