On Nov. 4, South Shore residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of a non-binding referendum question that their state representative should be asked to vote in favor of developing the Cape Wind wind energy product in Nantucket Sound.
Eighty-seven percent of voters that went to the polls in 11 towns would appear to favor the controversial wind project that has been in the making for a decade.
The question also asked if the district’s state representative should be asked to support other possible future onshore and offshore wind power development s in Massachusetts, and voters said yes.
Cape Wind is the name of an offshore wind farm proposed for Horseshoe Shoal that the company says would provide three quarters of the electricity that Cape Cod and the Islands need. The company said that the ballot question was consistent with two independent public opinion surveys carried out last March that were each 86 percent in support of the Cape Wind project.
The towns that voted included: Braintree, Holbrook, Randolph, Cohasett, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Scituate, Hanover, Norwell and Rockland.Â
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