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Finally! US’ First Offshore Wind Farm OK’d by Interior
In what might signal the end of a nine-year long battle for the first offshore wind farm in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced the approval of the 468-megawatt, Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.
Op-Ed Dismantles RFK Jr. Opposition to Cape Wind
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not giving up his opposition to Cape Wind any time soon, despite the fact that his oppositional planks have once again been systematically dismantled.
Cape Wind Sorely Missed as New England Hits Peak Summer Demand
As the temperature in Boston climbed to 95 degrees and New England’s electric demand reached its peak so far this year on Tuesday afternoon, the sea breeze on Nantucket Sound would have allowed Cape Wind to supply 300 megawatts of electricity during that crucial hour, according to data collected at Cape Wind’s Scientific Data Tower in Nantucket Sound.
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Against Cape Cod Wind Farm
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed last year by the Town of Barnstable against Cape Wind and the state’s Energy Facilities Siting Board
Mass. Gov. Patrick Clears Way for Cape Wind with New 10% Wind Power Directive
The Boston Globe ’s Green Blog, reports that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has penned a plan to get ten percent of the state’s energy from wind energy by 2020. The Massachusetts wind power target is intended to “guide the incentives and policies made by state agencies.” Ian Bowles, the secretary for energy and environmental affairs [...]
Cape Cod Moves One Big Step Closer to Getting Offshore Wind Power
The eight year-old battle for what would be the country’s first offshore wind farm may finally be nearing an end as the long-awaited Final Environmental Impact Statement from the U.S. Department of the Interior reported negligible to minor impacts across all but one of the 27 resource areas studied. The impact on marine birds was [...]
Oberstar Asks Coast Guard to Delay Cape Wind Ruling
[Cross-posted at Red, Green, and Blue] In what must have triggered a collective moan of ‘are you kidding me?’ from environmentalists and renewable energy advocates across the country and the world, Minnesota Representative Jim Oberstar, a Democrat, has asked the United States Coast Guard to delay its final recommendations on the proposed Cape Wind project. [...]
Cape Wind Wins 87% Support on Massachusetts Ballot
As the long battle over a proposed wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts inches towards a conclusion, project supporters won an important, albeit, symbolic victory on November 4th, as Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly voiced their approval of what would be the country’s first offshore wind farm. Eighty seven percent of voters in eleven Massachusetts towns [...]
Cape Wind Wins Another Appeal
Massachusetts Agency Confirms Federal Jurisdiction over Cape Wind A Final Decision issued by the Director of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife upheld an earlier decision that the proposed offshore wind farm, Cape Wind does not constitute a “taking” under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act and that wildlife issues will be managed by the [...]
MMS Overwhelmed by 40,000+ Comments on Cape Wind
Agency permanently extends comment period for alt. energy leases [Originally posted at Red, Green, and Blue on May 5, 2008] In the fall of 2001, Jim Gordon of Energy Management Inc. (EMI) announced his intentions to build a 420 megawatt wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts – the nation’s first. Now, the long permitting [...]
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