Fighting efforts to thwart Cape Wind project.

• Position: Massachusetts - Brief article

In an eleventh-hour, closed door attempt to kill the Cape Wind project, a Congressional conference committee attached an amendment to an $8.7 billion Coast Guard reauthorization bill that would give the Massachusetts Governor veto power over Cape Wind. Proposed in 2001, Cape Wind has been moving through the regulatory and permitting process for over four years. The project is proposed for federal waters in the shallow Horseshoe Shoals area of Nantucket Sound. If built, Cape Wind would supply up to 75 percent of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket's energy needs with clean, renewable power.

CLF is working with a coalition of environmental, labor, industry and health groups, as well as leaders in the finance community, to fight this anti-wind amendment at the federal level. The amendment was introduced by Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens in a House-Senate conference committee that was not...