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Boston, Massachusetts (AP) March 2010
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked a key historical preservation panel to weigh in on a proposed Cape Cod wind farm.
Salazar said during early March that the Cape Wind developer and two area-Native American tribes could not reach an agreement on the project. As a result, Salazar said the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will allow the public to express their views on the proposal.
Salazar will then take those comments into consideration before deciding whether to approve the wind farm.
Cape Wind developers have proposed building 130 turbines, each more
than 400 feet tall, in Nantucket Sound in what would be the nation’s
first offshore wind farm.
But the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Aquinnah Wampanoag say the
project will interfere with sacred rituals and desecrate tribal burial
sites.
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