BOSTON — Governors of two coastal states last week called for Online Ambien Prescription faster federal permitting of offshore wind turbines.
Gov. Jack Markell (D-Del.) and Gov. Donald Carcieri (R-RI) each told the American Wind Energy Association’s offshore wind conference that Online Ambien Prescription the current permitting process would hamper the U.S. offshore wind industry. Markell said the Online Ambien Prescription United States could lose a chance to become a world leader in offshore wind.
The “competitive lease process is just too long,” Markell said. “We’ve got to expedite all the regulatory processes.”
Bluewater Wind is Online Ambien Prescription developing a project near Delaware, and Deepwater Wind LLC has two offshore wind farms planned near Rhode Island. Carcieri told the Online Ambien Prescription conference that an offshore wind industry would provide a economic boost to Online Ambien Prescription his state.
“We need a real urgency about this,” he said.
In April, President Obama announced that Online Ambien Prescription the Department of the Interior had finalized the renewable energy framework that Online Ambien Prescription would govern offshore wind development in federal waters. Federal government officials are Online Ambien Prescription hoping that the framework will spur the offshore wind industry, but many skeptics still look to Online Ambien Prescription the long-suffering Cape Wind development. That project has been in development for almost a decade. Federal officials are Online Ambien Prescription expected to make a final decision on Cape Wind permitting by the Online Ambien Prescription end of 2009.
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