{"id":466788,"date":"2010-03-24T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:18:00","slug":"mass-preservation-official-critiques-cape-wind-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466788","title":{"rendered":"Mass. preservation official critiques Cape Wind project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2010\/03\/23\/state_preservation_chief_cites_wind_farm_impact\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/resize\/bonzai-fba\/Globe_Photo\/2010\/03\/22\/1269316612_6301\/539w.jpg\" width=\"385\" align=\"right\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/23\/11\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: In testimony before a federal panel yesterday, Massachusetts&#8217;  historic preservation officer expressed concerns about the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nantucket_Sound%2C_Massachusetts%3A_Cape_Wind_project\">Cape  Wind project in Nantucket Sound<\/a>, saying it could have an &#8220;unparalleled&#8221;  impact on historic sites.<\/p>\n<p>Brona Simon, who issued a November opinion that Nantucket Sound&#8217;s  importance to two American Indian tribes justified a place for it on the  National Register of Historic Places, told the Advisory Council on  Historic Preservation that the project could damage Indian  archaeological sites and drastically change the character of the area.  The 130-turbine project would cover 25 square miles, more than six times  the footprint of the second biggest project ever reviewed by Simon&#8217;s  office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see the concern we have about the adverse effects of the  project,&#8221; Simon said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mashpee and Aquinnah Wampanoag tribes have opposed Cape Wind,  claiming it would interfere with rituals by obstructing their view of  Nantucket Sound. A third Indian group &#8212; the Chappaquiddick Wampanoag  tribe &#8212; came out against the project yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory council must submit its recommendations to Interior  Secretary Ken Salazar by April 14. Salazar, who is not bound by the  recommendations of the council, has said he will make a decision soon  after receiving its report (Beth Daley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2010\/03\/23\/state_preservation_chief_cites_wind_farm_impact\/\" ><em>Boston  Globe<\/em><\/a>, March 23). <strong>&#8211; GN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3229&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3229\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: In testimony before a federal panel yesterday, Massachusetts&#8217; historic preservation officer expressed concerns about the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, saying it could have an &#8220;unparalleled&#8221; impact on historic sites. Brona Simon, who issued a November opinion that Nantucket Sound&#8217;s importance to two American Indian tribes justified a place for it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466788","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\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}