SINKING IN
BUREAUCRACY
The Long, Litigious Path
to Offshore Wind Power
In 2001, Jim Gordon, a well-heeled developer of
natural gas plants in New England, took up a longdiscussed but never-pursued idea that advocates said
would usher in a new era of clean energy in America:
an ocean-based wind farm off the shores of Cape Cod.
By TOM ZELLER JR.
A visual simulation of Cape Wind from a boat at a distance of one mile.