A few things became quite clear at Wednesday night’s public hearing on the draft environmental impact statement on the Cape Wind project.
The first was that about twice as many Vineyarders, assuming those who attended are broadly representative of Island opinion, oppose the project as support it.
After the polling irregularities in Florida in the 2000 Presidential election, which saw George W. Bush come to office, David Earnhart did nothing. But when it was repeated in 2004, he could not let it pass again.
“A lot of people were angry in 2004,” Mr. Earnhart said this week from his office in Nashville. “But where most everybody else moved on, I didn’t.”
You could hardly accuse the drafters of the town of Tisbury’s Municipal Needs Assessment of understating the town’s planning problems.
“All the town’s major public buildings,” including the fire department, police and ambulance services, town hall and annex, says the first of the report’s findings, “are in a poor location and/or poor condition.”
More than 3,200 written submissions have been received in response to the draft environmental impact statement on the Cape Wind project, and the fe
A single-source catalogue of every one of the 1.8 million or more life forms on Earth, the Encyclopedia of Life will involve a network of some of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions.
But the encyclopedia, which went online for the first time this week, will depend heavily for its success on people — like Allan Keith, citizen scientist of Chilmark — with little or no formal training.
The founder of the Vineyard Energy Project, Kate Warner, is preparing to step down as director as the VEP shifts its focus from primarily education and advocacy to practical implementation of energy saving measures.
