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Cape Wind nets legal warnings
With less than a month to go before U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar determines the fate of Cape Wind, the legal saber rattling over the offshore wind turbine project has begun.
"We anticipate many years of costly and unproductive litigation," former interim U.S. Sen. Paul Kirk Jr. and U.S. Rep. William Delahunt (D-Quincy) wrote Salazar in a January letter.
March 26, 2010
by Christine McConville
in Boston Herald
With less than a month to go before U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar determines the fate of Cape Wind, the legal saber rattling over the offshore wind turbine project has begun.
"We anticipate many years of costly and unproductive litigation," former interim U.S. Sen. Paul Kirk Jr. and U.S. Rep. William Delahunt (D-Quincy) wrote Salazar in a January letter.
The Democratic legislators say the government is illegally exempting Cape Wind, the $1.6 billion wind project proposed for federal waters in Nantucket Sound, from a not-yet-final ocean zoning plan.
The government, facing a crush of offshore energy proposals, wants clear guidelines for the emerging... [continue via Web link]
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