[Classifieds] Sierra Cape Cod Talk: “Community Benefits from Offshore Wind Power Purchasing, featuring Rep. Dylan Fernandes" - September 19, 7 pm via Zoom

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Sierra Cape Cod’s 3rd Tuesday Talk
Community Benefits from Offshore Wind Power: Stabilizing Electric Rates & Decarbonizing the Cape, featuring Rep. Dylan Fernandes
Tuesday, September 19, 7 to 8 pm
Virtual, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89176128525?pwd=V2R3QS9QaEF5cXhZY2xBRm1hQXJRdz09

Sierra Cape Cod’s virtual speaker series continues Tuesday, September 19 at 7 pm with a talk by State Representative Dylan Fernandes addressing the highest-impact approach for achieving the net-zero goals established for Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. This event is free and open to all; time will be reserved for audience Q&A.

Now in his fourth term serving Nantucket, Dukes County, and portions of Falmouth, Rep. Fernandes focuses on climate change, affordabie housing, public health, economic development, and social justice issues and is recognized as a leader in efforts to localize the benefits from offshore wind projects.

As construction of Vineyard Wind continues, several developers are competing to secure state-brokered utility power purchase agreements (PPAs) needed for financing future projects. In this talk, Rep. Fernandes will review key provisions of state law enacted in 2022, as well as proposed legislation (H. 3161<https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3161>), designed to help municipal aggregations like the Cape Light Compact, as well as individual towns and federally recognized tribes, enter into long-term PPAs with these developers. He also will highlight the broad base of support for offshore wind power purchasing on Martha’s Vineyard—and the anticipated benefits.

By encouraging Cape Light Compact to commit to buying as much offshore wind as possible, climate advocates have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to promote deployment of additional turbines for not only decarbonizing our electricity supply but also ensuring that heat pumps and electric vehicles run on clean energy, not electricity generated by burning fracked gas. Making offshore wind accessible to all local consumers, on an equitable basis, also will deliver rate stability and resilience to market disruptions like those that have driven electricity prices to unprecedented levels over the past year.

Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3.8 million members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. As part of Sierra Club's Massachusetts Chapter, the Cape Cod & Islands Group represents members and supporters in Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket counties. For information, visit https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts/cape-cod-islands-group. Videos of recent “3rd Tuesday” talks are available at this page and via the links below.


Recent “3rd Tuesday” Talks presented by Sierra Cape Cod

July 18, 2023: State Senator Julian Cyr on PFAS sources, contaminated sites on Cape Cod, and proposed legislation, “An Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS”<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_ScREuvz9gGndnEwu3MpZiUT_Sv4vRi/view?usp=drive_link>


June 20, 2023: Bob Ryley of Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod presents “Net-Zero Homes & Building Codes: Habitat Cape Cod’s Decarbonization Experience"<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q8HN85f8-SajZs3T2MqBNxGks0u3CO-t/view?usp=sharing>

May 16, 2023: Tom Cambareri, Sole Source Consulting, and Laurel Schaider, Silent Spring Institute, discussing the science, sources, and solutions for PFAS contamination in Hyannis<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1koKGX8BawzdjMyyS0nL8ccQRFUYw6cjN/view?usp=sharing>

April 18, 2023: Andrew Gottlieb, Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), on Holtec’s proposal to discharge radioactive contaminants to Cape Cod Bay<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bX4LZuWOUDhA40ch6JxZf8AwJZcAk9uL/view?usp=sharing>

March 21, 2023: Mark Faherty, science coordinator for Wellfleet Bay Audubon Sanctuary, on threats facing horseshoe crabs and proposed state regulations for protecting local populations<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-aBCZ7KS6jjXoYmm025JMZhyzzRrkTHk/view?usp=share_link>

February 21, 2023: Madhavi Venkatesan, executive director of Sustainable Practices, on the ongoing campaign to ban single-use plastic water bottles and foodware<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a5wMsPEcKJIdDjPH4rqy8MBHDtVMCb82/view?usp=share_link>

January 17, 2023: Zee Crocker, executive director of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, on proposed state regulations to accelerate water quality improvement on Cape Cod<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qhHI6Ge3442KK7tB6B6TTTqFhRGRBbvp/view?usp=share_link>

December 7, 2022: Mariel Marchand, power supply planner for Cape Light Compact municipal aggregation, on opportunities for greening and cleanup up the local electricity supply mix<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oLLNBmsK8IHPBPZLLFptaqtijwucIcdi/view?usp=share_link>
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