O’Malley says the proposed 13-month moratorium on constructing wind turbines within 56 miles (90.1km) of the US Naval Air Station Patuxent River (Pax River) was unneeded and would chill renewable energy investment in the state.

Developer Pioneer Green Energy’s Great Bay Wind Energy Center would be located in economically depressed Somerset County on Maryland’s eastern shore across the Chesapeake Bay from the base, located outside of Washington, DC.

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