Wind over Ted Kennedy's Water
from Fjordlight Productions

Documentary filmmaker and journalist Ole Tangen has announced a screening of his film Wind Over Water. Wind Over Water traces the development of the biggest debate ever to hit Cape Cod: the proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The film features interviews with the key figures in the Cape Wind debate including among others Jim Gordon, President of Cape Wind Associates and Isaac Rosen, the former Executive Director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. Tackling issues like tourism, the environment, jobs and energy, Tangen focuses on the local aspects of the debate and how it relates to the state of renewable energy in America.

"The Cape Wind Project has emerged as one of the most important issues facing the people of Cape Cod," says Tangen. "I set out to make a film that weeds through the hyperbole surrounding the debate and helps the audience make an informed decision about the wind farm."

The 30-minute film is a culmination of over two years of documenting the debate surrounding the Cape Wind Project. Not being from the Cape, Tangen was able to step back and take an outsider's view of the issues and report on them in an objective manner. Tangen recently received his Masters degree in documentary film from Emerson College and now lives in New Jersey. Wind Over Water is his first full-length documentary.

This is an interesting intersection between technology and people. How many liberals who have summer houses on the Cape are screaming at W on Meet the Press, deriding him because his foreign policy is "arrogant" and we can solve all of this by "sustainable energy." Well, here it is kids, wind power, a totally renewable energy source, and not only because the turbines will turn extra fast every time Ted Kennedy opens his blow hole.

See our previous article about the cape.

posted by prof_booty | 02:44 PM