King's wind-farm idea: It's time to start hopping (5000 MW offshore wind, Maine)

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http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=188322&ac=PHnws

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"We're dead," said former Gov. Angus King.

King floated his metaphor before the University of Southern Maine's monthly Corporate Partners breakfast last week. His warning: We Mainers adjust at our own peril to the steady upward creep in fossil fuel prices.

"This is a looming, impending, rolling catastrophe," King told the packed room at USM. "We're in the cross hairs of a disaster."

It was the former governor's second public pitch in as many months for what many might still call a radical idea: a 5,000- megawatt wind farm sucking up the ocean winds 25 miles out in the Gulf of Maine.

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