Yea, or nay?
What Nantucketers say on wind power in Nantucket Sound:
"It's a fine line. I do believe in looking

for alternative energy, but is that the best place? I honestly don't have a dog

in the fight. I've looked into a wind

turbine in my back yard. I honestly think they're going to be fine unless

they break down."

- Joseph Topham,

residential designer

"Yes, I do support the wind farm. No, I

do not support it being privately run. I would rather see it be run by a number

of towns on the Cape."

- Brian Chadwick,

Selectman

"No. They're a menace to navigation

for small and large boats."

- Flint Ranney,

Nantucket's representative

on the Steamship Authority

Board of Governors

"No, because of the location. The concept

is a good one, but the location should be different. I think basically a

land-based system would be a better

one than the one in the water. Longterm,

I think tidal power has probably much greater promise than some of the

other ones that are currently being

looked at."

- Dual Macintrye,

president of the Tom Nevers

Association

"I'm against it mainly for the birds. Migratory birds will basically be consumed

if you have it so close to Nantucket. It's a fine idea, but not for

this area."

- Linda Loring,

founder of the Linda Loring

Nature Foundation

"I'm kind of back and forth on it. I'm

against where it is, but I am for wind power. I'm wondering what it's going

to really look like. I think they're [Cape Wind] exaggerating how small

it's going to look. I think it's going to

look bigger. That particular project doesn't seem to benefit anybody except the developer. It certainly isn't going to

help Nantucket."

- Gary Winn,

developer/real estate broker

"My sense of the wind farm is it could probably find a better location. We obviously

need alternative energy supplies,

but the site in the sound is not the best

site. I think Doug Bennett really had something with the alternative site south of Tuckernuck. That really does intrigue

me, that and this tidal power."

- Rick Atherton, FinCom chairman