Stop Vineyard Wind from Harming Our Environment
It's Not Too Late to Stop Vineyard Wind from Destroying our Beach and Villages
A private company known as Vineyard Wind has quietly negotiated a contract with the Town of Barnstable to lay and bury two high voltage electrical cables totaling 460,000 volts from an 84 wind turbine farm 34 miles from Covell's Beach in Centerville. The cables are both under water and underground beneath Covell's, then along local roads for approximately 5 miles within 100 feet of residents' homes to a transfer station in Independence Park.
Without additional community action, Vineyard Wind will land its 460,000-volts electric cables on Covell’s Beach and run 460,000-volt lines throughoutCenterville, Hyannis, and Barnstable villages.
Installing permanent power line infrastructure in the water and on land (including permanent vaults the size of ocean shipping containers at the beach and along the land route) will permanently alter an already fragile beach and community.
Not only did the town of Yarmouth chose not to allow Vineyard Wind to run its cables through its offshore waters and resource areas, recently the Conservation Commission for Martha's Vineyard, at their Edgartown hearings, voted 5-1 to deny Vineyard Wind's application for the cables to pass to the east of the Island. Vineyard Wind itself said that bringing a cable onshore at Covell’s would be difficult because the landside route travels through densely developed neighborhoods to reach the substation.
Funds raised will be used to pay the local attorney we hired for the appeal process for the Barnstable Conservation Committee permit recently granted. We are also aiming to hire an independent environmental expert to support the appeal process.
We need your help now!
A private company known as Vineyard Wind has quietly negotiated a contract with the Town of Barnstable to lay and bury two high voltage electrical cables totaling 460,000 volts from an 84 wind turbine farm 34 miles from Covell's Beach in Centerville. The cables are both under water and underground beneath Covell's, then along local roads for approximately 5 miles within 100 feet of residents' homes to a transfer station in Independence Park.
Without additional community action, Vineyard Wind will land its 460,000-volts electric cables on Covell’s Beach and run 460,000-volt lines throughoutCenterville, Hyannis, and Barnstable villages.
Installing permanent power line infrastructure in the water and on land (including permanent vaults the size of ocean shipping containers at the beach and along the land route) will permanently alter an already fragile beach and community.
Not only did the town of Yarmouth chose not to allow Vineyard Wind to run its cables through its offshore waters and resource areas, recently the Conservation Commission for Martha's Vineyard, at their Edgartown hearings, voted 5-1 to deny Vineyard Wind's application for the cables to pass to the east of the Island. Vineyard Wind itself said that bringing a cable onshore at Covell’s would be difficult because the landside route travels through densely developed neighborhoods to reach the substation.
Funds raised will be used to pay the local attorney we hired for the appeal process for the Barnstable Conservation Committee permit recently granted. We are also aiming to hire an independent environmental expert to support the appeal process.
We need your help now!
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Preserve Covells Beach
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Centerville, MA