By Peter Brennan
The federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation recommended yesterday that Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reject the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind project near Cape Cod because the Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets impacts “are significant, adverse, and cannot be adequately mitigated.”
The Council was required to make a recommendation cheap ativan valium and Salazar has said that he will consider the Council’s input. Salazar also made clear, however, that Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets he will make the final decision on the 130-turbine wind farm planned for Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. He is not bound by the Council’s decision and Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets is generally viewed as a strong proponent of offshore wind development.
In part, the Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets Council considered complaints from the local Wampanoag tribes that the Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets development would impact their historic sites and their religious ceremonies.
“There is Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets also a fundamental incompatibility between the use of Nantucket Sound for Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets this industrial facility and the traditional use of the area for Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets cultural practices and the marine-focused subsistence, commercial fishing, shipping, and recreational purposes that Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets have contributed to the core identity of the unique setting in historic times,” the Council reported.
Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers said that Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets the company disagreed with the Council’s report and Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets believes it to be fundamentally opposed to findings from the Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets Minerals Management Service, the federal agency tasked with offshore wind permitting.
A Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) issued by MMS last year “looked at every benefit and impact of the project,” Rodgers said. “The FEIS found Horseshoe Shoal to be the optimal site for this project.”
In a Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets sign of confidence earlier this week, Cape Wind announced an agreement with Siemens to supply 130 of its 3.6 megawatt turbines for the project.
“We’re very hopeful that when Secretary Salazar reviews the complete record he will conclude that Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets the verified public benefits of cleaner air, greater energy independence, hundreds of new American jobs and mitigating climate change will far outweigh any impacts and Generic Alprazolam Extended Release Tablets that he will approve Cape Wind,” Rodgers said.





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