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Rare Right Whales Move into Area, Mariner Restrictions in Place
February 22, 2013 by Mark Alan Lovewell in Vineyard Gazette
February 22, 2013 by Mark Alan Lovewell in Vineyard Gazette
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.
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Impact on Wildlife]
"Cape Wind's oversized costs do not represent a reasonable return on the public's investment," wrote Joseph P. Kennedy II, the former congressman and president of the Citizens Energy Corporation, a Boston nonprofit group, in a letter to The Cape Cod Times in February. Mr. Kennedy's family owns property that looks out on the proposed wind farm site.
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Energy Policy]
Regulators push energy projects farther offshore
September 9, 2010 by Patrick Cassidy in Cape Cod Times
September 9, 2010 by Patrick Cassidy in Cape Cod Times
The new area for federal leases begins 12 miles offshore, three miles farther out to sea than some locations in an earlier draft leasing plan, said Deerin Babb-Brott, state assistant secretary for Oceans and Coastal Zone Management. The planning area covers 2,542 square nautical miles, 1,300 square nautical miles less than originally proposed.
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Energy Policy]
Report: wind farms could impact Pave PAWS radar: Report urges 25-kilometer buffer zone
June 15, 2007 by Craig Salters in The Register
June 15, 2007 by Craig Salters in The Register
A long-awaited Department of Defense report has determined that commercial wind farms like the one proposed for Nantucket Sound could affect defense radar installations like the Pave PAWS site on the Upper Cape.
The nine-page report, issued by the DOD's Missile Defense Agency, states: "Utility class wind farms could have significant impacts on radars, including the missile defense early warning radars."
"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."
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General]
In an opinion piece printed Monday in the Wall Street Journal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls Cape Wind a "rip-off" and alleges that a merger between NStar and Northeast Utilities is being held up by Massachusetts utility regulators to force the companies to buy half of the project's power.
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General]
Romney doubts seen delaying emissions pact
November 22, 2005 by Beth Daley and Scott Helman, Globe Staff in The Boston Globe
November 22, 2005 by Beth Daley and Scott Helman, Globe Staff in The Boston Globe
A group of Northeast states has postponed the announcement of a landmark agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants after Governor Mitt Romney raised objections to the pact late last week, two government sources familiar with the agreement said yesterday.
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Pollution|
Energy Policy]
Ruling by Park Service favors tribes; Secretary Salazar calls a summit
January 9, 2010 by Mike Seccomb in Martha's Vineyard Gazette
January 9, 2010 by Mike Seccomb in Martha's Vineyard Gazette
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will meet with Cape Wind opponents and proponents, among them members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe in Washington on Wednesday, following this week's finding that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic places. ...The boundaries of the area at issue are ill-defined, but it appears the claim refers to some 500 square miles of Nantucket Sound.
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General]