Good news! Last night there was a special meeting of the Select Board, held at the library. Although the town had seemed to embrace wind power at Town Meeting, second thoughts made many of us, myself included, decide the wind turbine at White Crest was not such a good idea. I think the water tower hammered the last nail into the coffin, taking residents by surprise with its ugliness. The turbine would have been much taller and hard to miss. While many of us support alternative energy, it is a fact that Wellfleet attracts tourists with its stretches of wild landscape along Ocean View Drive, and any wind turbine there would disrupt the view. I applaud the Select Board's willingness to listen to town residents who were active in stopping the wind turbine project.
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Grant · 779 weeks ago
That's Brayton Point, with over 2x the capacity of the next biggest power plant in the region, the Plymouth nuclear plant.
Unless we're willing to give up on electricity altogether, we need to be careful about rejecting alternative, renewable sources, just because we're not used to what they look like.