US FAA rules Cape Wind project not a danger to aircraft

Cape Wind "poses no hazard to air navigation" says the FAA

In another regulatory boost for Cape Wind, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has again concluded that the proposed 468MW offshore project in Nantucket Sound will pose no danger to commercial or military aircraft.

The “determination of no hazard” is the fourth made by the FAA on aspects of what would be the first US utility-scale offshore wind farm, which would be sited south of Cape Cod off the Massachusetts coast.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last October overruled a third FAA finding that the turbines would not pose a hazard.

The court sided with project opponents who had appealed the decision, on the basis that the agency did not adequately document how it reached its conclusion based on its own Log in to read complete article.

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