Wind farm hearing stirs intense debate

[ben_meyers]

WEST YARMOUTH — The first of four highly anticipated public hearings on the wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound did not disappoint.

From faux pirates and scuba divers to real miners from West Virginia and dueling testimony literally sung into the record, last night's hearing at Mattacheese Middle School took on the diverse and, at times, carnival atmosphere familiar to those who have attended previous hearings on Cape Wind.

About 900 people crowded into the school auditorium.

"Great idea, wrong location," opponents of the project shouted outside the school as they waved a tennis court-sized sign in the cool evening breeze. Proponents raised a forest of pro-wind-farm signs above the blue tarp in an attempt to steal the media spotlight.

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