Environmentalists fighting wind farm in Cape Cod -not in MY back yard!
Environmentalists, Native American tribes, fishermen and historic preservationists are among those fighting the plan, which has the support of Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, who wants to expand the state’s “clean energy” industry.
(CNSNews.com) – Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar will decide in coming weeks whether a Boston company may proceed with plans to build a major wind farm off Cape Cod, in Nantucket Sound.
Environmentalists, Native American tribes, fishermen and historic preservationists are among those fighting the plan, which has the support of Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, who wants to expand the state’s “clean energy” industry.
On Friday, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation recommended that Interior Secretary Salazar either deny or relocate the proposed Cape Wind project because its effects would be “pervasive, destructive, and, in the instance of seabed construction, permanent.”
Salazar had been waiting for the advisory council’s recommendations before deciding whether to approve or deny the wind farm project.
The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, a group formed in 2001 to fight the wind project, called the federal advisory ruling “a great victory for the people of Cape Cod” and others “who care deeply about protecting national treasures like Nantucket Sound.”
The Alliance urged Salazar to heed the federal advisory council’s objections either by rejecting the Cape Wind project entirely or moving it to another “compromise” location.
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