Cape Wind Lawsuits Filed
A broad coalition of organizations has filed lawsuits now that the Cape Wind Farm has been approved for Nantucket Sound. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound has joined with Three Bays Preservation, Animal Welfare Institute, Industrial Wind Action Group, Californians for Renewable Energy, Oceans Public Trust Initiative (a project of the International Marine Mammal Project of the Earth Island Institute), Lower Laguna Madre Foundation to file suit against the federal Fish and Wildlife Service and Minerals Management Service for violations of the Endangered Species Act.
The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is also joining the Duke’s County/Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen Association in filing suit against the federal Minerals Management Service for violations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. The town of Barnstable has filed notice of intent to file a lawsuit on the same grounds.
The Wampanoag tribe has also indicated they are mounting a legal challenge to the various tribal rights. Other grounds for legal cases include violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.:;;