Three weeks ago, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved Cape Wind’s plan to place 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe opposed the Cape Wind project on cultural grounds.

Opponents of the wind farm, including both tribes, have . . . → Read More: Cape Wind deal means dollars for tribes, higher costs for consumers

By MIKE SECCOMBE

Developer Jim Gordon had something to smile about Wednesday.

The federal government has given its blessing to the development of Cape Wind, America’s first big offshore wind farm, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.

The Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced his decision to approve the project, . . . → Read More: Interior Secretary Approves Cape Wind

Opponents of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm scored a key victory yesterday when a federal panel on historic preservation recommended that U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar kill the project.

The recommendation from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is the final piece required in the review of Cape Wind’s . . . → Read More: Blow dealt to Cape Wind project

The failure of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribes to reach an agreement with the developers of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound to mitigate the project’s effect on historic properties has set the stage for what is expected to be the final public hearing on the project.

Ken Salazar, Secretary . . . → Read More: Cape Wind’s effects on Nantucket Sound’s historic properties get public airing

It’s a matter of deciding which way the wind blows, and where to put turbines in its path. Although that sounds like a simple concept, a draft wind energy siting plan for Dukes County is anything but. The document already is 48 pages long, and that’s before the work group that . . . → Read More: Towns, MVC take up rulemaking for wind energy siting plan

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 by . . . → Read More: Tribe Spurns Offer From Cape Wind To Pay $1 Million

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 Times. . . . → Read More: Tribes reject wind farm offer

Cape Wind CEO offers millions to halt opposition

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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 claim that . . . → Read More: Tribal Member Disputes Claim of Sacred Ground

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 claims are . . . → Read More: Wampanoag cultural claim false, some say