Wind farms

2004

November 11, 2004

Wind Farm Project Clears Key Hurdle

Ian Fein
Cape Wind
Wind farms
Wind power

Army Corps of Engineers Releases Long-Awaited Environmental Report for Controversial Cape Wind Plan

The controversial Cape Wind project vaulted back into the news this week with the long-awaited release of a draft environmental impact statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

After three years of deliberation and months of anticipation, the environmental report found that the wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound would have economic and air quality benefits but little or no long-term negative impacts.

2002

October 3, 2002

Alliance Campaigns Against Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound

Mandy Locke
Cape Wind
Wind farms
Wind power

The leading critics of the 170-turbine offshore wind farm proposed for the shallow waters of Horseshoe Shoal made their way across Nantucket Sound to rally Vineyard opposition to the project.

"I've seen grocery stores take longer to get permitting in front of the Cape Cod Commission than it took for Cape Wind to get [a data tower permit] from the Army Corps of Engineers," said Isaac Rosen, executive director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, to less than a dozen officials at the all-Island selectmen's meeting Wednesday night.

April 25, 2002

Wind Farm Yields Evening of Lively Debate

Mandy Locke
Wind farms
Wind power
Commercial fishermen
Martha's Vineyard Commission

A crowd of Vineyard residents registered their concerns with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding a proposed private energy project that aims to plant 170 windmills in 28 square miles of shallow water in Nantucket Sound. For nearly two hours last Thursday night an audience of 60 entered comments into the formal record during a scoping session held in conjunction with a Martha's Vineyard Commission meeting in the basement of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.

January 10, 2002

Nantucket Sound Wind Farm Plan Stirs Controversy in Cape and Islands

Julia Wells
Wind farms
Cape Wind

Public opinion is beginning to heat up on the Cape and Islands over a proposal for a private alternative energy project that envisions a giant offshore wind farm anchored across some 28 square miles of Nantucket Sound.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission will host a public hearing on the project on Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the lower level of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. The hearing begins at 6:30 p.m.

The purpose of the hearing is to gather public comment, although the commission has no formal jurisdiction over the project.

Some Operations Resume for Vineyard Wind Despite Damaged Turbine

Though pieces of the broken Vineyard Wind turbine continued to fall into the ocean south of the Island this week, federal regulators have approved the wind farm to lay cables.

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