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Cape Wind
Mass Audubon supports Cape Wind. Mass Audubon's final position on the Cape Wind project (PDF 140K) is based on our review of the Final Environmental Impact Statement and the pending Record of Decision, which was released by the U. S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service in April 2010.
The Cape Wind Project proposed for Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket Sound will be the first offshore wind energy project in the United States. Mass Audubon began its review of the Cape Wind Project in August 2001. Since that time, we have commented on dozens of studies and permit applications, identified data gaps and need for standards, contributed the results of our own extensive avian research, and challenged Cape Wind and its permitting agencies to accept comprehensive and rigorous monitoring and mitigation conditions to help improve the environmental review of this significant project.
August 27, 2010 additional information on Mass Audubon and Cape Wind (PDF 27K)
Additional press materials:
Cape Wind Project Additional Information
- Comments on the Cape Wind Environmental Assessment (PDF), March 9, 2010
- Response to Obama Administration's Position on Cape Wind, January 13, 2010.
- Update on the Cape Wind Energy Project, January 16, 2009.
- Release of Federal Cape Wind Environmental Impact Statement is a Positive Step Forward, December 29, 2008.
- Comments on the second draft environmental impact statement, April 18, 2008
- Letter from Mass Audubon President Laura Johnson: Mass Audubon's Position on the Cape Wind Energy Project, March 28, 2006.
- Mass Audubon's Comments on Cape Wind FEIR, March 2007
- Mass Audubon's Comments on Cape Wind DEIS, February 2005
- Mass Audubon's Avian Data Summary, October 2005
- Mass Audubon comments on the first draft environmental impact statement released by the Army Corps of Engineers and our request for a supplemental DEIS, December 6, 2004
- US Army Corps of Engineers Cape Wind Energy Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- Results of Mass Audubon Avian Surveys in Nantucket Sound
- Listen to an NPR interview with Mass Audubon staff while on Nantucket Sound engaged in tern surveys.
- PBS NewsHour: Report on Cape Wind
- PBS NewsHour: Assessing the Threat to Birds
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