Cape Wind developer pulls plans for oil-powered plant. Chelsea project drew charges of hypocrisy

[Ian David]

By Peter J. Howe
Globe Staff / November 15, 2007

After months of denunciation by many of the same environmentalists who have cheered his Cape Wind project, Boston energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon abandoned his plan yesterday for an oil-fueled power plant in Chelsea.
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In a notice filed with the state Energy Facilities Siting Board, lawyers for Chelsea Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Gordon's Energy Management Inc., like Cape Winds Associates LLC, said the company "no longer intends to develop the project at the proposed site in Chelsea" and withdrew its applications for approval.

The move followed months of often harsh criticism of Gordon for proposing a 250-megawatt plant, large enough to serve about 180,000 average homes, just 1,000 feet from the main elementary school in economically struggling, predominantly-minority Chelsea.

Gordon, who has often described his 130-turbine Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound as one of the most important steps Massachusetts could take to combat global climate change, was branded a hypocrite for backing an oil-burning plant in Chelsea.

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