By Peter Brennan
The Interior Department’s Inspector General said Wednesday that Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder the Minerals Management Service did not violate environmental laws during its review of the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm. The Inspector General noted, however, that concerns remain over the project’s potential impact on air travel.
The Inspector General’s office said it was acting in response to “multiple complaints” filed in the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder fall of 2008 over the Cape Wind Environmental Impact Statement, which MMS submitted to Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder the Environmental Protection Agency on January 16, 2009.
The proposed 130-turbine wind farm has Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder been in the permitting process for over eight years. It was dealt another setback early this Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder month when the National Park Service declared the proposed site — Nantucket Sound — eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder month that he will step in to bring the permitting process to Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder a conclusion in April.
The Interior Department watchdog office reported that Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder local airport officials have outstanding concerns over the impact of the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder wind farm on local air travel, including the use of radar.
“Several transportation entities located in the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Cape Wind Project area, including all three local airports and the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder two major ferry operators, feel their concerns and comments about the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder impact of the project to the navigational safety of the area were not adequately considered by MMS,” the report said.
The MMS has Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder said that it does not have expertise on aviation issues and Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder must rely on the FAA. On February 13, 2009, the FAA issued a “Presumed Hazard Determination” due to the potential for “physical or electromagnetic interference with an air navigational system,” according to the Inspector General’s report.
“If the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder FAA determines that the interference can be mitigated, the FAA would then Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder conduct negotiations with the developer of the project in an attempt to Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder agree on appropriate mitigation measures,” the Inspector General’s report said.
If that Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder occurs and the FAA agrees with Cape Wind on mitigation measures, the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder agency will issue a “Determination of No Hazard to Air Navigation.” If the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder FAA and Cape Wind cannot agree on mitigation measure the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder agency will issue a “Determination of Hazard to Air Navigation.”
5. February 2010 at 10:46 am
For thosse interested in more details regarding Cape Wind’s threat to Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder public safety, you may review the related testimony and reports, here:
http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/19/3290406-cape-wind-a-public-safety-hazard-proposed-for-nantucket-sound-
7. February 2010 at 12:06 am
I am the Peter Kenney identified on page 2 of the I.G.’S report on CAPE WIND. My contact with the DOI IG’s office is Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder what began this whole sleigh ride. The national press have never read all of the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder reports on Cape Wind, have not analyzed its economic impacts, have Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder not researched its various deceptions about such things as turbine availability and Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder true costs, as I have for the past nine years, and Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder have generally supported this project simply because it sounds good. It does sound good….in fact it Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sounds too god to be true. This is largely because it Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is to good to be true. When will we see in print a Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder complete cost analysis? A complete description of the equipment to be used? A complete description of the Valium Post Traumatic Stress Disorder many and serious problems reported in the Inspector General’s report. When?