america’s first wind-power project off the coast of cape cod is being fought over renderings. wind-industry-backed (with 61% resident support) cape wind produced a set of renderings of how the offshore wind farm would look from several places on the cape, many of which were used by “grass roots” save our sound, really a minority group representing wealthy land-owners whose houses sit directly on the sound. renderings of the windmills on the horizon were produced as a way to gather public support – and ironically the same renderings were used by the opponents of the plan, except that they show only the two above, not the ones below. it’s good to see that the debate is being framed on capewind’s terms – especially when people realize how beautiful windmills can really be.
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