Indian tribes object to Cape wind farm proposal
Published: July 15, 2009
BARNSTABLE, Mass.—Two Massachusetts Indian tribes say they are frustrated that federal officials have not properly addressed their concerns about an energy-generating wind farm proposed for the waters off Cape Cod.
The Mashpee Wampanoag and the Wampanoag of Gay Head say the U.S. Minerals Management Service, the lead agency reviewing the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, hasn’t fully considered issues raised by the tribes.
The tribes claim the proposed wind farm would destroy a sacred site where their ancestors fished, hunted and possibly were buried. They also say it would obstruct their views and interfere with their spiritual well-being. They want the project stopped.
A spokesman for the federal agency told the Cape Cod Times that the MMS is working “in good faith” with the tribes.
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Anyone “buried” in the “sacred waters” have surely been regurgitated many times over by the sharks offshore. C’mon!
wdmso—Weaver’s Cove is different—very different. Nobody in Fall River would object to putting a wind farm on the Weaver’s Cove site, but LNG is NOT the complaicent energy source that many people thing it is.
Weaver’s Cove wants to use Fall River as a testing site for unproven LNG technology. The incident in Somerset this past year when a woman was killed by a SMALL leak, and the panic in E. Prov. just recently when a gas line was breached PROVES the dangers of LNG. The only dangers of a wind farm is from failed braking controls—and that would NOT roast a million or more people alive…..
Are you kidding there is sacred water?? i guess the’ll try to stop boats from fishing? please, just be honest it a case of not in my back yard ! just like weaver Cove. they just try to use terms like SACRED or NOT SAFE to stop change
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