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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 of Continue reading 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 will Continue reading Towns, MVC take up rulemaking for wind energy siting plan… 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 turbines would interfere Continue reading Indian tribe disputes tribal ceremony… 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 U.S. Continue reading 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. “This Continue reading Tribes reject wind farm offer… Cape Wind CEO offers millions to halt opposition
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 Nantucket Continue reading 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 fiction. Continue reading Wampanoag cultural claim false, some say… 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 Continue reading Tribe members: Hot air driving wind farm alarm… The already twisted Nantucket Sound wind farm saga just got a bit stranger: A Wampanoag tribal member says it is “fabricated cosmology’’ that his tribe performs sun ceremonies that need an unobstructed view of the Sound – as the tribe has claimed in a campaign to halt the energy project off Cape Continue reading Tribe member challenges sun rite in letter to Salazar… 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 Secretary of Continue reading Tribe explains Cape Wind opposition rooted in history and Indian culture… 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 Continue reading Interior Secretary Pays Visit to Wampanoags… 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 Continue reading Aquinnah’s New Wind Bylaw Will Require Minor Retooling… Federal authorities plan to open up almost 4,000 square nautical miles of ocean near the Vineyard for potential wind power generation.
A draft Request for Interest (RFI) map presented to a renewable energy task force meeting of state, local and federal representatives on Wednesday identifies a vast arc of ocean, extending from the Continue reading Federal Offshore Energy Plans Dwarf Cape Wind… A large group of Island planning and conservation officials gathered last week to debate what is expected to be a central dilemma in the months and years to come: how to allow and regulate large-scale wind turbines on the Vineyard while still protecting the Island’s unique culture, environment and economy. Widely considered Continue reading Wind Rules: Making Up Is Hard to Do… |
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