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Native Americans who have opposed Cape Wind\u2019s 420-megawatt wind farm in Nantucket Sound are meeting with officials from the Department of the Interior today to push an alternate site for the project, according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n The privately-owned Cape Wind will also be meeting with Interior Department officials and will likely oppose the re-siting of the project, claiming that it will have to start the approval process over again, according to this article <\/a>in The Boston Globe. Instead, they have offered\u00a0to look for native artifacts on the seabed before they begin construction.<\/p>\n The dispute has becomes an important test of how the Obama Administration will balance cultural and ecological sensitivities against its green energy goals.<\/span><\/p>\n Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said last week that he wants the parties \u2013 the private Cape Wind on one side, conservation groups and several tribes on the other \u2013 to come to an agreement <\/a>by March 1 or he will \u201ctake the steps necessary to bring the permit process to conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n The proposal brought by various groups, including the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, would place the project at a location called South of Tuckernuck Island, which they claim has the water depth and area to accommodate the project.<\/p>\n The groups claim the new site will have less impact than the Horseshoe Shoal site on boat traffic, commercial fishing and endangered species and also limit impacts on tourism and the viewshed that the tribes consider sacred.<\/p>\n