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Island Wampanoag vow wind farm fight
The Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard is preparing a court challenge for what its leaders expect will be an approval by the federal government of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.
Representatives of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) said this week that they had requested another meeting with Interior Department officials after the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation recommended that the project be rejected.
April 16, 2010
by Patrick Cassidy
in Cape Cod Times
The Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard is preparing a court challenge for what its leaders expect will be an approval by the federal government of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.
Representatives of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) said this week that they had requested another meeting with Interior Department officials after the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation recommended that the project be rejected.
But representatives of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has said he will decide this month whether to approve a federal permit for the plan by Cape Wind Associates LLC to build 130 turbines in... [continue via Web link]
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