LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor:

Congratulations to the graduates of the Nantucket High School Class of 2008. On behalf of the school, I would like to extend to each of you the following wish:

As you face each new tomorrow

May you always be prepared to meets its challenge

Use its opportunity

May you always have a dream to follow

Wisdom's light to guide you

May you know that others care

And will always stand beside you.

Thank you for the indelible mark you have left on Nantucket High School.

Even as you move forward with your lives, your legacy remains.

Sincerely,

George Kelly

Principal

Nantucket High School

To the Editor:

Cape Wind has made the claim for years that there is only one suitable site for their industrial wind energy installation, Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound. In his My View, 'Wind will power our future', Mark Rodgers of Cape Wind now represents that there are enough shallow water sites available to power the entire state of Massachusetts.

The Cape and islands community has been severely divided by this proposal that pits new energy technology proponents against proponents of historic use rights, tourism, and scenic value. Three thousand Massachusetts fishermen, represented by Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership, are opposed to Cape Wind as a "taking" threat that would compromise their safety in this Essential Fishing Habitat.

Mark Rodgers rewrites history by his revelation that there enough shallow water sites off the coast of Massachusetts to power our entire state.

So, what does Cape Wind find so intriguing about this area of Nantucket Sound that local residents have passionately engaged to defend from industrialization?

The data collection tower located on Horseshoe Shoal as identified in special interest language in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 has Cape Wind's undivided attention. It's not Horseshoe Shoal's wind that Cape Wind wants to capture so much as the competition that Cape Wind wants to avoid.

Of the seven alternative sites identified during Cape Wind's review process, only one site provides Cape Wind with the opportunity to secure a no-bid deal and eliminate all potential competition, Horseshoe Shoals, where this data tower exists.

As Senator Ted Kennedy has observed: "Cape Wind, under Section 388, is exempt from undergoing the competitive bidding process that will apply to all other offshore alternative energy developers. Thus, if approved, Cape Wind it will have acquired development rights to an immensely valuable and ecologically fragile area of the OCS, without having to compete with any other company for those rights."

Cape Wind now concedes that there are many Massachusetts offshore sites that are suitable for wind energy installations; but just not for theirs.

Thank You,

Barbara Durkin