By GottaLaff
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Some good news via a New York Times e-mail alert:
After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light Wednesday to the nation's first offshore wind farm, a sprawling project off the coast of Cape Cod.
The approval of the 130-turbine farm gives a significant boost to the nascent offshore wind industry in the United States, which has lagged behind far Europe and China in harnessing the strong and steady power of ocean breezes to provide electricity to homes and businesses.
Clean, green energy. Someone is keeping his campaign promises.
“I am approving the Cape Wind project,” Mr. Salazar said. “This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast.”
That was the good news. The bad news? It's not "shovel ready" and there are opponents who will do all they can to stall it for years. Even some environmentalists.
Either way, it sure beats "drill, baby, drill."
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