12 Oct '12, 3pm

The Cape Wind offshore #wind power project has won NRDC’s, among many others, longstanding support

Because of its many environmental benefits, the Cape Wind offshore wind power project in Nantucket Sound has won NRDC’s and many other national, regional and local environmental groups’ longstanding support. That project is cleared for take off and can create 420 megawatts of clean, renewable energy, jumpstarting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry. But the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound , a single-issue Cape Wind opposition group that has filed some 13 obstructionist lawsuits against the project over the last 11 years is trying, through its press releases, to claim the green mantle now. The Alliance announced recently that it had filed a brief in one of its long-pending federal lawsuits to stop the project. Usually, filing a brief is not news. But perhaps in response to a new website detailing the Alliance’s strong ties to the dirty energy industry , the All...

Full article: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kkennedy/the_cape_wind_...

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