After many loooong years of fighting today is the LAST day you can let the Minerals Management Service know that you support Cape Wind. If you don’t feel like writing an email yourself you can pop over to the Cape Wind page and they have a handy form for you to use.

From their site.

The reviews are in – Cape Wind is a good project. Like the three other Federal and State Agencies that comprehensively examined Cape Wind, the Minerals Management Service verified important public benefits of Cape Wind and found nearly all potential negative impacts to be “negligible”. The other agencies that had similar findings were the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

MMS should complete its permitting review of Cape Wind as quickly as possible. This DEIS is extremely though and comprehensive – the MMS issue a Final EIS this Summer and a Record of Decision this Fall. Cape Wind has already undergone over six years of review – more than any fossil fueled power plant in Massachusetts. The MMS should reject calls by project opponents for any additional delays that would only further delay the delivery of important public benefits.

Cape Wind’s Public Benefits:

Greater Energy Independence. Cape Wind will tap the vast and inexhaustible winds on Horseshoe Shoal to provide over 75% of the electricity used on Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Using local and clean sources of energy will reduce our reliance on imported oil, coal, and natural gas. Cape Wind will offset the equivalent of 113 million gallons of oil per year.

Action on Global Warming. Cape Wind will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region by almost a million tons per year. The Natural Resources Defense Council has called Cape Wind, “the largest single source of supply-side reductions in CO2 currently proposed in the U.S.” In March, 2007, Massachusetts Energy and Environment Secretary Ian Bowles likened Cape Wind’s effect on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to that of taking 175,000 cars off the road each year. Just two months ago the head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachuari, described the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late…What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future.”

Cleaner Air. Cape Wind will reduce the amount of pollution entering our air by thousands of tons per year. The Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board found that, “The record clearly documents significant and lasting air quality benefits resulting from the wind farm’s displacement of other, primarily fossil-fueled, generators.”

Jobs & Clean Energy Economy. Cape Wind will create hundreds of good jobs during the 2-year construction period and 50 + permanent operations jobs. Cape Wind will help southeast New England become a global leader in the growing field of offshore renewable energy – an economic sector that will employ tens of thousands of people in the years to come.

Stable-Priced Energy. Cape Wind can offer electricity consumers stable-priced electricity for 20 years because, unlike fossil fuel plants, Cape Wind has no fuel costs. Since Cape Wind was first proposed in 2001, the price of oil has gone up 400% and the price of natural gas has gone up 300%.

Go comment, support, now! This is an extremely important first step on our path towards energy independence.