{"id":270779,"date":"2010-02-03T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2010-02-03T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:24:27","slug":"offshore-wind-booster-ken-salazar-tours-cape-wind-project-site-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270779","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Wind Booster Ken Salazar Tours Cape Wind Project Site [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm site off Cape Cod yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the proposed site of Cape Wind\u2019s\u00a0offshore wind farm yesterday.<\/p>\n

Boston-based Cape Wind has been working for years to launch the development of a 420-megawatt offshore wind farm off\u00a0Cape Cod, on the Nantucket Sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

The developer thought it was seeing light at the end of the tunnel back in December when it officially began negotiating the terms<\/a> of a long-term power purchase agreement with National Grid. But shortly after the talks began Cape Wind was thrown another curve ball when the National Register of Historic Places ruled that the Nantucket Sound<\/a> was eligible for listing in its register, a decision that ensures more delays in the already long permitting process.<\/p>\n

But in Salazar Cape Wind, and other offshore wind developers, have an ally. Since taking over at the Interior Department, he\u00a0has been an ardent defender<\/a> of offshore wind development. His visit yesterday could be interpreted as tacit support for the beleaguered project.<\/p>\n

As part of his daylong visit Salazar boarded a Coast Guard vessel\u00a0and toured the proposed site where Cape Wind\u00a0wants to erect 130 turbines over a 25-square mile area of federal waters.<\/p>\n

Salazar also met with members with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which opposes the wind farm saying its construction would violate ancestral lands that holds potent cultural and historical significance.<\/p>\n

Watch the Salazar press conference and the protests both for and against the Cape Wind project:<\/p>\n

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Video: Cape Cod Times<\/span> \/ Image: AP<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm site off Cape Cod yesterday. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the proposed site of Cape Wind\u2019s\u00a0offshore wind farm yesterday. Boston-based Cape Wind has been working for years to launch the development of a 420-megawatt offshore wind farm off\u00a0Cape Cod, on the Nantucket Sound. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}