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April 28, 2010

Fed approval of Cape Wind buoys MD offshore prospects

The Obama administration's approval today of the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod in Massachusetts gives impetus to efforts to put turbines off Ocean City and elsewhere along the Atlantic coast, proponents say. But the controversial Cape Wind project, hotly debated for nine years, is likely to face court challenges from opponents.

Read my story in The Baltimore Sun tomorrow for more.

(AP photo of turbines off southeast England coast)

Posted by Tim Wheeler at 3:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Chesapeake Bay, Climate change, News

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While the offshore wind farms remain controversial, I am very happy to see that we are makign progress toward lessening our dependence on foreign oil. Even if these are a temporary stop-gap until we develop a less expensive, more efficient and less intrusive source of energry, I feel that this represents some progress.

Posted by: Elizabeth | April 29, 2010 9:35 AM

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Tim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

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