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Featured Articles  Wind Energy and the Vineyard in the NewsRecent wind energy articles from various news sources are linked below. If you have run across other interesting articles concerning wind power and the Vineyard, please click here to send us an email with the link. Salazar sets countdown to Cape Wind decision, Indian Country Today Secretary Ken Salazar Opens Final Cape ...March 9th, 2010
Recent wind energy articles from various news sources are linked below. If you have run across other interesting articles concerning wind power and the Vineyard, please click here to send us an email with the link. Salazar sets countdown to Cape Wind decision, Indian Country Today March 5th, 2010
A Fall River-based Indian tribe has joined the fray in a dispute over the effects of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm on tribal properties and ceremonies. In a letter sent earlier this week, the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe chairman George Spring Buffalo questioned contentions that the project’s 130 wind March 5th, 2010
The plan to build a distributed antennae system (DAS) to boost cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns appears to be moving ahead without West Tisbury, after the town zoning board ruled that the American Tower Company must apply for 23 individual permits to use utility poles around March 5th, 2010
Martha’s Vineyard’s Indian tribe rejected a $1 million inducement to drop its objections to the proposed Cape Wind development in Nantucket Sound, in the interest of preserving a cultural tradition which some tribal members deny even exists. The offer from Cape Wind was made during a series of meetings convened February 28th, 2010
A million-dollar offer by Cape Wind Associates LLC to each of the Indian tribes fighting the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm has been declined. “A financial offer was made to our tribe and it was rejected,” the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s chairman, Cedric Cromwell, said in a statement e-mailed to the February 27th, 2010
Cape Wind CEO offers millions to halt opposition
February 26th, 2010
Adding another twist to the high-stakes gamble for who will win the right to use the ocean waters around the Vineyard for industrial wind power development in the name of green energy progress, a formerly prominent member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has publicly disputed the February 25th, 2010
Two prominent members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) say there is no historical basis to support claims by tribe leaders that a wind farm in Nantucket Sound would interfere with important cultural ceremonies based on the rising of the sun in the east. They say the February 20th, 2010
Members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) are disputing that the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will ruin a ceremony important to the tribe’s culture. In a letter sent Feb. 9 to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Jeffrey Madison, a former member of the Aquinnah tribe’s tribal council and an attorney at February 18th, 2010
Chilmark and Aquinnah officials have signed a contract with American Tower Corporation (ATC) to build a distributed antennae system (DAS), designed to improve wireless service in the up-Island towns without a conventional tower. Plans for a three-town system have been suspended. Although West Tisbury was part of the original discussion, town officials and February 11th, 2010
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) interest in casino gambling, apparently dormant for some time, has reemerged with news reports of a letter sent by the tribe’s leadership to the Freetown selectmen, expressing interest in potential sites for a gaming operation in that town. In an undated letter to Freetown February 11th, 2010
In a press release sent to news outlets on Friday, Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), outlined the tribe’s opposition to the Cape Wind project in terms of cultural, religious, and environmental concerns. The press release (available at mvtimes.com) followed the visit last week of February 5th, 2010
American Tower Company, the company that wants to build a distributed antenna system (DAS) to improve cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns, must apply for 23 individual special permits, one for each antenna to be installed on utility poles around town. This is the opinion of Mark Bobrowski, a February 5th, 2010
Secretary Salazar said he was “very bullish” about the future of offshore wind energy in general, but that all options were still open regarding Cape Wind’s plan to build 130 turbines on Horseshoe Shoal. “The conclusion might be that we will simply deny the application, or on the other hand that we will approve January 30th, 2010
A divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission last Thursday clashed over whether the technical language in a recently adopted Aquinnah wind bylaw is in synch with a townwide district of critical planning concern (DCPC) approved over 10 years ago. In the end the commission voted 7-6 that the new bylaw — drafted by the planning board |
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