Cape Wind found 'adequate'

May become U.S.'s first large offshore wind project

Posted by Erik Hoffner (Guest Contributor) at 11:19 AM on 30 Mar 2007

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This just in: the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has weighed in on Cape Wind's Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), saying that it "adequately and properly complies" with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act. The project can now advance to the state permitting process. I believe it is the first U.S. offshore wind project to have a certified final environmental impact document.

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Flamebait

-David Ahlport

by GreyFlcn at 11:33 AM on 30 Mar 2007

funny

That's funny, Grey. I think.

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by Erik Hoffner at 2:32 PM on 30 Mar 2007

Well

You saw the last thread on this :O

It was huge.

-David Ahlport

by GreyFlcn at 9:31 PM on 30 Mar 2007
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A first!

Congratulations! Cape Wind.

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by amazingdrx at 11:31 PM on 30 Mar 2007

If Only Teddy Agreed

Wow...a green energy project that would benefit millions -- now if you could only get Ted Kennedy to stop stalling the project because those windmills might affect the view from his summer home....

by jabailo at 1:08 AM on 31 Mar 2007

And don't forget Warner

I don't mind Kennedy taking his deserved hit for this, but just remember that it it also be stalled by Republicans from coal country who also have compounds in the same area whose view would be spoiled. Playing games with energy policy based on corrupt interests and personal prejudices is a joint Democratic-Republican foul up. Not an equal one: the Republicans have played a worse role than the Democrats, but filled with wrong turns and dishonesty by both parties.

by Gar Lipow at 1:20 PM on 31 Mar 2007

Update: further delays

from the Boston Globe: "The plan to build a wind farm off the Cape and Islands encountered yet another delay Thursday night when the federal agency reviewing it announced it will not release a draft report of its findings this month, as planned....The Minerals Management Service now plans to take a stand on the project in late summer, a spokeswoman for the agency said."

This puts off public hearings on the project to the fall and will probably delay the release of the Marine Mineral Svc's final report until summer 2008.

So the state agencies have thrown their support hehind it, but Washington's process is now, again, the question mark.

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by Erik Hoffner at 8:10 AM on 07 Apr 2007

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