Conservation, Native rights and sustainable energy: Cape Wind suffers another ‘blow’
What would be the United States’ first offshore wind farm project – dubbed Cape Wind – may be in jeopardy due to an announcement by the National Park Service last week. The NPS stated that the site of the proposed wind farm, in Massachusetts’ Nantucket Sound, should be eligible for protection by being included in the National Register of Historic Places. Two Native American tribes, the Aquinnah and the Mashpee Wampanoag, are opposed to the project due to traditional and spiritual reasons: ‘The turbines would be clearly visible to both Aquinnah and Mashpee people and would degrade their essential view…
