Cape Wind
Cape Wind Could Use RI Ports as Staging Areas
TheDay.com: Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has met with officials from the Cape Wind offshore wind project planned for Massachusetts about possibly using the state’s ports as the wind farm’s construction staging area, and a project spokesman told The...
Group Says Cape Wind Poses Risk to Whales
Boston Herald: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and other conservation groups today (October 10) filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the Cape Wind project would...
Cape Wind Studies Nantucket Sound Seabed
MVGazette: Cape Wind, which began more than a decade ago as the nation’s first offshore wind farm and has since been enmeshed in legal battles, political wrangling and untold miles of red tape, is inching closer to the day...
Cape Wind Moving Headquarters to Falmouth
Cape Wind has chosen Massachusetts’s Falmouth Harbor for its local base of operations, according to an article on CapeCodOnline.com. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon on Thursday announced the company has signed a purchase and sale agreement to buy East...
Cape Wind Project Cleared by FAA
CapeCodOnline: Cape Wind cleared its last bureaucratic hurdle Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration released its finding that the project poses no hazard to planes. The finding came after a court-mandated re-evaluation of possible safety hazards the 130-turbine project...
Feds Investigate Cape Wind FAA Approval
CapeCodOnline: Federal lawmakers are taking a harder look at whether political considerations played a part in the decision by the Federal Aviation Administration to approve the Cape Wind project. In a letter sent today (July 17) to FAA acting...
Fishermen, Cape Wind Reach Agreement
The Martha’s Vineyard/Dukes County Fishermen’s Association (MVDCFA) and Jonathan Mayhew entered into a settlement agreement with Cape Wind. The 2 groups have agreed to work together to “support sustainable local commercial fisheries and sustainable energy,” according to a press...
UMass-Dartmouth to Lead Ocean Energy Research
A $535,000 state grant will put the UMass-Dartmouth Marine Renewable Energy Center at the lead of ocean energy research management in the United States, according to an article in the Cape Cod Times. The grant is to develop ocean...
Cape Wind Power will Raise Electricity Prices
CapeCodOnline: Power from the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will cost the average residential electricity customer on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard an extra $1.44 per month in the first year of a contract filed by NStar today. Statewide,...
Electric Company Agreement Pushes Wind Farm Forward
Boston.com: Massachusetts officials reached a breakthrough deal with NStar and Northeast Utilities today (Feb. 15) that would allow the 2 electric companies to merge in exchange for freezing rates for 4 years, and a commitment from NStar to buy...
