Friday, June 15, 2012

APNewsBreak: FAA felt offshore wind farm pressure

 

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2010 file photo, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, left. and Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes, take in the view aboard the U.S. Coast Guard's Ida Lewis buoy tender while on an information gathering tour of Nantucket Sound regarding the viability of the Cape Wind power project. Behind them is a 190-foot meteorological tower, part of the potential Cape Wind site. Federal Aviation Administration officials felt political pressure to approve the planned wind farm, and did so amid internal disagreements over how to ensure the wind turbines wouldn’t interfere with local radar and compromise airplane safety, according to FAA documents obtained by the project’s opponents. (AP Photo/Julia Cumes, File)Federal Aviation Administration employees felt political pressure to approve a wind farm planned off Cape Cod and did so amid internal disagreement over the best way to stop the turbines from interfering with radar and compromising airplane safety, according to FAA documents obtained by the project's opponents.

APNewsBreak: FAA felt offshore wind farm pressure
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:49:06 GMT

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