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Article: No 'full, fair hearing' on Cape Wind
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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VONNE ABRAHAM deserves some credit for mostly avoiding the low
road in her June 21 column on Cape Wind ("Time to end the
blustering," Metro). But no one with all the facts could claim that
this project has received a "full and fair hearing."
State agencies have refused to look at the 25-square-mile
development's breadth of impacts. They have limited their review to
only the transmission cable portion of the project, which raises
only the less controversial questions and avoids the tough issues.
They then cite these limited proceedings to concoct the illusion of
meaningful review.
And now the state Energy Facilities Siting Board, which is made
up of gubernatorial appointees, has issued the ...