Finally, Cape Wind -- RIP -- December 2, 2017

I've blogged many, many times about Cape Wind. I actually heard developer Jim Gordon promote the off-shore wind farm while visiting Harvard University's school of business some years ago. One Harvard MBA student was very skeptical (as was I) about the viability of Cape Wind. That was about five years ago.

Today, Don sent me the link to a Boston Globe story: the Cape Wind project is finally dead.

But it’s finally over: Gordon filed a notice this week with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to end the firm’s Nantucket Sound lease.

Gordon also issued a brief statement, taking credit for sparking the discussion about offshore wind here.

He also took a jab at his opponents, in part for the significant funding they get from wealthy Cape homeowners. Their repeated legal challenges likely played a key role in the project’s demise.

We’re embarking on a new era. Wind turbines are on their way for deeper waters, south of Martha’s Vineyard. They won’t be Gordon’s. But at least he can take some credit, in his defeat, for being a pioneer.

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Tilting At Windmills

I am quite surprised how long Jim Gordon put up with this nonsense. This must have cost him the better part of the best years of his life. Of course he was well paid for this endeavor and I'm sure he met a lot of friends along the way, but at the end of the day, this is probably his legacy, a Don Quixote of the 21st century, literally tilting at windmills.