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Kennedy clan vs. clean power
Your last chance to be heard about Cape Wind |
Charles Komanoff |
19 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A friend once described Nantucket Sound as a body of water surrounded on three sides by money. The outcome of the six-year-long effort to use a small part of that water to house a 130-turbine, 468-megawatt wind farm -- still the largest proposed renewable-energy project in the eastern U.S. -- will help determine whether we, as a nation, are serious about confronting the climate crisis.The federal agency in charge of the formal review of the Cape Wind project, the Mi ... |
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| Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Caping By
Cape Wind project given preliminary environmental approval |
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14 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:58 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Seems it was only October that the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound was dealt a setback. Now here it is January, and the wind farm that NIMBYs love to hate is inching forward, having been given preliminary environmental approval from the Minerals Management Service. After a public comment period, the final fate of the project is expected to be announced later this year. source ... |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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The Daily Show makes a meal of Cape Wind opponents
Watch a video outlining the conflict over this wind farm |
Erik Hoffner |
08 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| "Nantucket Sound, blessed with a vast diversity of native life ... " Update, 11 Sep 2007: The video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc., unfortunately. |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, TV, wind power (all these topics) |
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Cape Wind found 'adequate'
May become U.S.'s first large offshore wind project |
Erik Hoffner |
30 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 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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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Cape Wind passes new hurdle
It's not the view: it's the vision |
Erik Hoffner |
25 Feb 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The most likely candidate for becoming the U.S.'s first offshore wind farm reached another permitting milestone by filing its Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) on February 15 with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office. It's now available, and it's meaty. It makes two important points to the Marine Mineral Service, which now oversees the process. If the permit is denied, it will a) result in higher costs to Massachusetts citizens, since the sta ... |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project
Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position |
Lisa Hymas |
06 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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A Shore Thing
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20 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| A Shore Thing Controversy is bubbling along the East Coast of the U.S. as a handful of companies press forward with plans to build offshore wind turbines -- 858 off the Maryland shore, 221 off Virginia, and 130 off Cape Cod, Mass. There are now some 15,000 wind turbines on U.S. land, providing clean, renewable power and decreasing U.S. dependence on fore ... |
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| Topics: East Coast, energy, green living, Maryland, Massachusetts, renewable energy, Virginia, wind power (all these topics) |
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The Reilly Factor
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12 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Letters, Oh We've Got Letters
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17 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Oh My Cod!
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09 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh My Cod! Cape Wind Associates has been given the green light on a project to build a data-collection tower that could lead to the largest renewable-energy plant in the United States -- 170 windmills off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. The collection tower, opposed by locals for its possible harm to tourism and the environment, will collect information on air and water turbulence, the direction and veloci ... |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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