WASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) — The Federal Aviation Administration has given its approval for a 130-turbine offshore wind farm, scheduled for development in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts.
Cape Wind Associates has been seeking approvals for the project for nine years, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
The Department of the Interior gave the project the go-ahead last month.
The FAA’s approval was granted on two contingencies. First, the company will be required to spend $1.5 million on upgrades for a radar system designed to track planes flying above the wind farm. Secondly, the company was required to put $15 million in an escrow account for two years to replace the radar system if the first one proves insufficient, the newspaper said.
“We always felt there was a technological solution,” Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers said.
Audra Parker, president and chief executive officer of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, an opposition group, said the FAA’s decision “flies in the face of public safety and the recommendations of the pilots who use this airspace every day.”
The group planned to appeal the decision, the newspaper said.
Cape Wind’s Web site says 420 megawatt wind farm could produce three quarters of the electricity for Cape Cod and the Massachusetts islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
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