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DiMasi pledges a vote on wind farm
House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, who outraged legislators from coastal communities by ramming through an amendment changing an ocean-protection law that could help a close friend's wind-farm plan, promised yesterday there will be a full debate and vote on the amendment.
The pledge was made two months after the House passed a wide-ranging energy bill that had a last-minute DiMasi amendment exempting offshore wind farms from certain restrictions in the state's Ocean Sanctuaries Act. The act bans or sharply restricts most construction in waters close to shore.
The only pending proposal directly helped by the amendment, critics said, is a 120-turbine wind project off Dartmouth and Mattapoisett proposed by Boston construction mogul Jay Cashman.
January 17, 2008
by Peter J. Howe
in Boston Globe
House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, who outraged legislators from coastal communities by ramming through an amendment changing an ocean-protection law that could help a close friend's wind-farm plan, promised yesterday there will be a full debate and vote on the amendment.
The pledge was made two months after the House passed a wide-ranging energy bill that had a last-minute DiMasi amendment exempting offshore wind farms from certain restrictions in the state's Ocean Sanctuaries Act. The act bans or sharply restricts most construction in waters close to shore.
The only pending proposal directly helped by the amendment, critics said, is a 120-turbine... [continue via Web link]
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