Coast Guard gives conditional approval to Cape Wind

[jpak]

http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2008/12/05/coast-guard-gives-conditional-approval-t?blog=53

he Coast Guard has given conditional approval to the Cape Wind Associates plan to build a wind turbine farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.

In a conference call Friday morning, Capt. Raymond Perry, captain of the port for southeastern New England, said his analysis of a study of the impact of the 130-turbine array on navigation shows those effects could be mitigated.

Captain Perry said the wind turbine array, which would be built in shallow water, could be treated as islands by vessels passing by in nearby channels.

The captain said the wind farm would pose more of a problem to boats actually inside the area, such as boats fishing on the shoal.

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[Warpy]

1. Shoot, I know that area

and it will be very nice to have the shoals marked by something besides buoys that tend to disappear in fog, and there's fog there a lot of the time.

Feeling your keel scrape the top of a badly marked shoal has got to be one of the ickiest feelings out there.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. The NIMBY's are fighting this tooth and nail.

I doubt it will ever happen.