The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the Town of Barnstable and local companies and residents are seeking to overturn a lower court decision dismissing their earlier lawsuit that asserted the State of Massachusetts illegally “coerced” electric utility NStar into a 15-year power off-take deal with Cape Wind.

Cape Wind communications director Mark Rodgers dismissed the appeal’s legal chances, saying: “Project opponents have now lost 26 legal decisions and with this filing they are heading to 27."

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