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What a great year…staying
healthy, new church, and community center. Life is good living here in
Rehoboth Beach. Whether seeing films sponsored by CAMP Rehoboth or just
walking around town, it’s a great place in large part because of you.
The new Community Center is a
testament to your dedication and to everyone who makes CAMP Rehoboth truly
a place for all.
John Sayres
I had the pleasure and opportunity,
along with other small business members in Rehoboth Beach, to view photos
and to participate in a presentation sponsored by Bluewater Wind for the
proposed off shore wind park. Bluewater Wind has been very eager to make
wind power a reality, to provide clean electricity to our area, thus
reducing the inherent risks of using fossil fuel as our only resource.
With the situation in the Middle East, I hope you agree we need to think
outside the box. I know it’s hard to sell a new idea (just like the
first car that replaced the horse and buggy, and now we have cars that
park themselves), but we should not be afraid to look to the future.
With wind, we would no longer have
to depend on other countries and big business to regulate our electricity
cost and restrict our access to power. Wind is clean and free. Also, the
proposed location of the windmills would be remote, at a distance of
twelve miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean. The generation of energy
would be uncontaminated, free of noise and oil spills, and be virtually
invisible from the beach. The project would enrich the community not only
by providing inexpensive and plentiful electricity, but the windmill
foundations would serve as artificial reefs which, in turn, would attract
more tourists to the area for diving and exploration.
We need to stop talking about
alternative power and vote for it. We only have one earth and we have to
start doing something now before it’s too late. We must make a stand,
move forward and give something to the future generations, rather than
blundering forward without any coherent alternative energy plan. Sussex
County has a unique opportunity to be first to move a project with so many
positive aspects from conception to reality. We should make this
investment in our futures and those who come after to make it right. What
better legacy could we leave those who come after us?
With all the concern about climate
change and protecting our environment, offshore wind generation is the
right thing to do, and Delaware can lead other states along the coast to
join the fight to save the earth. The first state can be first to have an
off shore wind farm.
Jerry Sipes
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