Massachusetts Unveils Landmark Ocean-Management Plan. By Steve LeBlanc, AP, January 4, 2010. "Massachusetts has released the final version of a landmark ocean-management plan, creating a vast regulatory map for the state's coastal waters and setting new limits for offshore wind farms. The plan allows up to 266 wind turbines in state waters -- 166 in two designated commercial wind farm areas and 100 more turbines scattered up and down the coast in smaller 'community' projects -- as the state tries to ramp up its renewable energy output. Authorized by the state's Oceans Act of 2008, the plan is designed to regulate development in state-controlled waters, which extend three miles offshore... The map would do nothing to block the development of the 130-turbine Cape Wind project, the nation's first proposed offshore wind farm, to be located in federal waters off Nantucket Sound."
2010-01-10
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