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From: The Washington Times | April 28, 2010
The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the country's first offshore wind farm, in Nantucket Sound off the Cape Cod coast, overriding protests from some environmentalist groups and local residents. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he approved the project on the condition it was scaled back from 170 to 130 wind turbines and that additional environmental and historical studies be completed. "Cape Wind will be the first U.S. offshore wind farms," Mr. Salazar said at a press conference in Boston where he was joined by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Democrat and a supporter of the project. "It will be the first ...
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