The New York Times has an editorial from yesterday's edition about Cape Wind.
"After eight years of arduous state and federal environmental reviews,
the promoters of Cape Wind, a wind energy project off the Massachusetts
coast, had every reason to believe that they were home free. Then the
Wampanoag tribes asked the Interior Department to declare all of
Nantucket Sound, where the 130 wind turbines would be built, a
“traditional cultural property” and, they hoped, block construction.
Tribal officials say their culture requires them to greet the sunrise each day and that this ritual requires unobstructed views. Their claim should be rejected by the responsible federal and state officials. Another round of bureaucratic reviews would drag out an approval process that has gone on much too long and give opponents time to find some other way to derail the effort..."
To read more of the story from The New York Times, click here.
To read an earlier article on this site about the not-in-my-backyard attitude about wind turbines including Cape Wind, click here.
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