facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c61+80?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .38381 2013-05-17T22:41:38Z 2013-05-17T22:41:38Z

After years of complaints about noise and health effects, on May 21, 2013 residents of Falmouth, MA will vote on whether or not to tear down both of the town's wind turbines.

.37788 2013-03-19T16:49:35Z 2013-03-19T16:49:35Z

BTMU is providing a significant amount of debt capital that will be used to pay for development and construction of the project, Cape Wind said. The company could not say how much BTMU was expected to raise.

.37474 2013-02-22T11:10:34Z 2013-02-22T11:10:34Z

The whales have also caught the attention of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is overseeing wind farm lease areas off the Vineyard and Rhode Island, and has commissioned the New England Aquarium to do an aerial survey, according to Tim Cole, a research fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service.

.37397 2013-02-16T15:51:06Z 2013-02-16T15:51:06Z

Barton said that in order for Cape Wind to be eligible for the federal tax credit, it must "commence construction" before the end of the year, but the federal government has not yet clarified what exactly commencing construction means. ...Cape Wind may have to place the monopilings, or foundations, of at least some of the project's 130-turbines before the Jan. 1 deadline.

.36914 2013-01-03T12:24:31Z 2013-01-03T12:24:31Z

Cape Wind is expected to use the investment tax credit, which gives developers the option of recovering 30 percent of the cost of new equipment for a project with the exception of transmission infrastructure.

.36289 2012-10-12T02:49:20Z 2012-10-12T02:49:20Z

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a handful of other groups yesterday filed a motion for summary judgment in one of five pending lawsuits aimed at preventing the construction of 130 wind turbines on roughly 25 miles of the sound.

.35843 2012-08-23T01:22:52Z 2012-08-23T01:22:52Z

Federal court appeal filed as Congress continues investigation into political pressure on FAA review of Cape Wind

.35792 2012-08-16T10:51:14Z 2012-08-16T10:51:14Z

"A politically based determination of the Cape Wind project by the FAA is an unacceptable use of federal authority, contravenes FAA's statutory mandate and raises significant safety concerns for aviation in Nantucket Sound," they wrote.

.35740 2012-08-10T10:34:31Z 2012-08-10T10:34:31Z

"(G)et cape wind done by sept. 30. That's important to the president," Issa quotes Silver as saying in an email to loan program senior adviser Peter O'Rourke.

.35684 2012-08-03T09:16:27Z 2012-08-03T09:16:27Z

McLaughlin said it is hard to believe political influence was not a factor in the FAA's decision, which came a month after U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the project.

.35528 2012-07-18T12:20:42Z 2012-07-18T12:20:42Z

In a letter today to FAA chief Michael Huerta, congressmen John Mica (R-Fla.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) say they have "significant questions" about the role of politics in the agency's approval of the project. "A politically based determination of the Cape Wind project by FAA is an unacceptable use of federal authority, contravenes FAA's statutory mandate, and raises significant safety concerns for aviation in Nantucket Sound," their letter states.

.35527 2012-07-17T12:14:40Z 2012-07-17T12:14:40Z

The congressmen asked the FAA to provide various documents by July 31, including any communication about Cape Wind over the last 3 1/2 years between the agency, Cape Wind, federal officials and the White House. It also flatly asked the agency to answer if it was influenced by political considerations, including the U.S. Interior Secretary's 2010 approval of the project and the Obama Administration's desire to promote green energy projects.

.35394 2012-07-06T23:16:06Z 2012-07-06T23:16:06Z

The survey begins Friday and continues through early fall. The first step involves acoustic imaging to map the seafloor. Then, sampling will be done ensure no Native American artifacts will be disturbed and to analyze the soil, followed by deeper soil borings.

.35405 2012-07-05T13:42:48Z 2012-07-05T13:42:48Z

"It's too early to talk about a hearing, but I'm very interested in the political pressure applied by the Administration in support of the President's green jobs scheme that is producing very few jobs," Stearns said in a statement to Greenwire this week. "Currently, we are still looking into the emails and other information involving the project."

.35375 2012-07-03T07:59:53Z 2012-07-03T07:59:53Z

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown yesterday joined the growing chorus of critics calling for a federal probe into Cape Wind, saying officials have been aware of safety concerns "forever" and raising questions about whether the hotly debated Nantucket Sound project was born from "backroom deals."

.35309 2012-06-22T15:29:30Z 2012-06-22T15:29:30Z

In a similar letter sent last month to Michael Huerta, acting administrator for the FAA, Ms. Parker said the FAA, in issuing in 2010 a "determination of no hazard" for the proposed wind farm, "ignored the warnings of the local aviation community, including airplane pilots, regional airports, and airline owners that the proposed Cape Wind project would pose unacceptable risks to the safety of local pilots and passengers."

.35307 2012-06-22T14:37:35Z 2012-06-22T14:37:35Z

U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns' committee last year looked into the collapse of Solyndra. The probe found that White House officials forced their budget experts to approve the loan despite their doubts about the firm's fiscal soundness. Stearns sees a similar pattern in Cape Wind.

.35285 2012-06-21T11:12:56Z 2012-06-21T11:12:56Z

Those emails take you inside Gov. Deval Patrick's spin machine and illustrate the administration's desperate scramble to make Cape Wind the nation's first offshore wind farm. The missives ...emerge as the Patrick administration and Obama officials come under fire for putting their eco-agenda first over public safety concerns.

.35284 2012-06-21T11:09:09Z 2012-06-21T11:09:09Z

"It appears that an investigation is warranted in the case of Cape Wind to determine if the FAA acted inappropriately due to political pressure from the administration. Such an investigation would be conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and/or the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure."

.35272 2012-06-20T13:10:21Z 2012-06-20T13:10:21Z

"FAA has made decisions based on political factors rather than the recommendations of the local aviation community and even its own employees, failing its statutory safety-first mandate," Audra Parker of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound wrote to the inspector general for the federal Department of Transportation.