From a Greenpeace ad lampooning Sen. Edward Kennedy’s fight against an offshore wind farm near his summer home.

The Seitch Blog has great coverage of a Massachusetts statewide survey finding that majorities of residents  across all political parties lines, AND those who live on the Cape and on the Islands, want the state to take a leadership role in alternative energy. This includes wind power projects such as Cape Wind. The Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) poll (pdf) for the Newton-Mass-based Civil Society Institute looks at the attitudes of state residents about coal-fired power plants, nuclear power, and the federal vehicle fuel-efficiency standards that Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey is shepherding through Congress.

The scientific survey of 600 state residents found that 93 percent of Massachusetts residents — including 78 percent of those who live on the Cape and on the Islands — agree that the state should be “a national leader in using cleaner and renewable energy on a large scale by moving ahead with offshore wind power” and other clean energy initiatives. The statement is supported on a bipartisan basis by Republicans (94 percent), Democrats (93 percent), and Independents (93 percent).

More than four out of five Massachusetts residents (84 percent) — including 58 percent of those who live on the Cape and on the Islands — explicitly support “the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm that would involve wind turbines being placed in Nantucket Sound about five and a half miles from the Town of Hyannis.” These numbers are virtually unchanged from a June 2006 Civil Society Institute (CSI) survey that posed the same question and found 81 percent support statewide and 61 percent in Cape Cod/the Islands (the latter of which is within the survey’s margin of error). Republican support for Cape Wind is at 82 percent, Democrats at 86 percent and Independents at 81 percent.

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