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November 9, 2009: Markey to Obama Admin.: Cape Wind Decision Needed by Copenhagen
Finalizing Decision Would Send World Strong Message on U.S. Clean Energy Commitment, Says Chairman Markey
WASHINGTON (November 9, 2009) – With less than a month before pivotal international climate negotiations begin in Copenhagen, Denmark, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today urged the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to complete a decision on the Cape Wind energy project before those negotiations occur, saying it would send a strong signal to the world that the United States is committed to advancing carbon-free clean energy.
“Approving the Cape Wind project as the nation’s first commercial
offshore wind project before the start of the U.N. conference would
send a strong message to international negotiators about the United
States’ commitment to developing sources of clean energy and reducing
global warming pollution,” said Rep. Markey, Chair of the Select
Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and co-author of
the Waxman-Markey climate and clean energy legislation, in the letter.
“I strongly support the development of clean, renewable energy, and I
believe that wind projects both onshore and offshore hold tremendous
promise for our nation and for New England.”
The Interior
Department has already completed the environmental review of the Cape
Wind project, which Markey notes in the letter is “the bedrock on which
valuable and safe energy projects are built.” In the letter, Rep.
Markey commends the Obama administration for also “finalizing the
regulations for all offshore renewable energy projects on which the
Bush administration had dragged its feet for more than three years.”
“With
the Obama administration's initiatives and the additional clean energy
legislation currently pending before Congress, the tide has turned from
the near total focus on fossil fuel extraction towards a comprehensive
plan that includes the clean energy promise of the winds and the tides.
Approving the Cape Wind project would be another important step towards
a clean energy future,” Rep. Markey concludes.
The letter can be viewed here: http://globalwarming.house.gov/mediacenter/letters?id=0040#main_content
