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Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound
PublicAffairs
May 2007
On Sale: May 7, 2007
326 pages
ISBN: 1586483978
EAN: 9781586483975
Hardcover
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This acidly funny account of the battle over an offshore
wind farm is both a fascinating window on the business and
politics of energy and a scathing portrait of the ruling
class. When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off
the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object.
But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately
funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England,
and he felt sure most people would recognize it eventually.
Instead, all Hell broke loose. Gordon had unwittingly
challenged the privileges of some of America's richest and
most politically connected people, and they would fight him
tooth and nail, no matter what it cost, and even when it
made no sense. Cape Wind is a rollicking tale
of democracy in action and plutocracy in the raw as played
out among colorful and glamorous characters on one of our
country's most historic and renowned pieces of coastline. As
steeped in American history and local color as The
Prince of Providence; as biting, revealing and fun as
Philistines at the Hedgerow, it is also a cautionary
tale about how money can hijack democracy while America lags
behind the rest of the developed world in adopting clean
energy.
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