Posted on 10/19/2007 12:41:23 PM PDT by jalisco555
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts Thursday denied Cape Wind's application to bury electric cables needed to connect its proposed 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Nantucket Sound to the state power grid.
Cape Wind said in a release that it would challenge the Commission decision. The Cape Cod Commission is a local organization created by the state in 1990 to manage growth and protect Cape Cod's natural resources.
Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.
The project's supporters, who include other environmental groups, meanwhile claim it would provide renewable energy, improve air quality, lower electricity costs and increase the reliability of the power grid.
Although the wind farm would be located in federal waters, the transmission lines connecting the project to the grid crosses land controlled by state and local authorities.
The Commission said it did not have enough information to make a decision. Local papers said Cape Wind could offer to provide more information to the Commission or appeal to the state to override the local authorities, or both.
"The Commission's denial based, not on the merits but, on claims that Cape Wind provided insufficient information does not square with the record," Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind, said in a release.
CAPE WIND HISTORY
Energy Management Inc, of Boston, the developer of Cape Wind, proposed in 2001 to build the offshore wind farm, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
At that time, Energy Management hoped the project, expected to cost more than $500 million, would start generating electricity in 2004.
The project consists of 130 General Electric Co 3.6 megawatt wind turbines, capable of generating over 400 MW, which is enough to supply about three-quarters of the electricity needs of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
The turbines, located more than 5 miles away from the Cape Cod coast, will stand about 440 feet from the surface of the water to the tip of the blade.
Due in part to an increase in global demand for steel and wind turbines, Cape Wind now expects the project to cost about $1 billion and the permitting process to continue through 2008 or beyond.
The lead federal agency needed to approve the project is the Minerals Management Service, a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior. MMS manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf.
MMS has said it expects to issue a draft report on the project later this autumn.
If approved, it would take Cape Wind about 18 months to construct the wind farm.
NOT in MY backyard........gigilo,,,,,,the swimmer.....
A victory for Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Walter Cronkite and other disadvantaged people.
That booze monkey's eyes aren't clear enough to see his feet.
“Only us peasants will suffer to fix global warming.”
C’mon, you have to get with FR’s schizophrenic approach to global warming - there’s no such thing. Well, unless you want to rub a liberal’s face in it. When you hear about religious conservatives talking about the environment as an important matter of faith? The granola made them go crazy!
Bah. The wind power plan was a damn good one. Too bad mansion property values trumped cheap, clean and renewable energy for the region.
I'm sure there are plenty of poor and middle class neighborhoods to place wind farm in. We peasants are too dumb to care about our views being spoiled, unlike the highly refined aristocrats who tell us how to live our lives.
How much are those oceanfront homes?
3,4 5 million? 10 million?
They will never build these there.
Everyone ride a bike to work to make up for this. /sarcasm
A dog bites man story.
“Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.”
I can see them being concerned about their migratory loons, besides Senator Kennedy is one wind turbine too many anyway.
The amusing part of the story...these were to be several miles off-shore, which a guy would barely see from the beach. You’d have to be onboard a sailboat to really see them. That eliminates 99 percent of the American public....especially from the Cape Cod area.
Was there ever any doubt on what the verdict would have been on this project once the powers thats be went on record opposing it? Hypocrites......
Tipsy NIMBY.........
You’re right, fat Teddy has been against these wind farms since day one, as long as he is alive there will NOT be any wind farms on the Cape,,,,heaven forbid we harness the wind for energy and spoil fat teddy’s view, lol, most of the time he spazzzed out on Chivas....his so called “view” is blurry to begin with........what a freakin’ buffoon,,,,people here in MA worship the ground he walks on....unbelievable......
Not really. It will be interesting to see how much traction this story gets.
“what a freakin’ buffoon,,,,people here in MA worship the ground he walks on....unbelievable......”
I was in Newton in 9th grade when Chappaquiddick was going down. I remember all the people defending Kennedy for that night. The excuses they came up with were ludicrous. Then the Kennedy lawyers gave the Kopeckne family 160,000. Still no outrage. “ Poor Ted, he had a bad night”
Yes unbelievable........I see nothing has changed :-)
About 20 million bucks to own that!
Mr Yearley was long time CEO of none other than Phelps Dodge, N.America's largest Copper miner.
No doubt Phelps Dodge have never, ever, ever despoiled anyone's view of "pristine" enivironments eh?
Teddy Reddy Kennedy wins again. Bleah!
Yeah, these people are totally shameless. Betcha anything that Al Gore flies to Stockholm in his Gulfstream to receive his Nobel.
RFK Jr. is the Platonic form of the enviro-hypocrite. He’s refined it into a high art. No one is better at “Do as I say, not as I do” than he is. He’s worse even than Gore.
The state created it because the voters of Barnstable County, which encompasses all of Cape Cod, voted for it.
The only way this fat sloppy lying murdering drunk would ever be able to see his feet is in a mirror or if they were cut off and laying on a table.
I’d vote for - oh never mind, it’s be nice to a fat drunk day.
I was about to post the same article, yours came up on the search.
It’s NOT about the enviroment, you silly, it’s all about Ted Kennedy having a pretty view from his property!
Jeez.
now that's just tooo damn funny...
Oh my!
The schwimma's so fat he can't see his feet :)
I am not convinced there was ever a contest.
the wind commission should run the lines to the grid around massoftwoschitts and then charge the coastal residents more for delivering their power to them...
i would.
teeman
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