SINKING IN
BUREAUCRACY
— which means that new clean energy facilities must, at some point,
be built.
And while it is virtually certain
that the turbines will have implications for local bird life, fish populations, boat captains and plane
pilots, thousands of pages of state
and federal agency analysis, judicial
review and subsequent re-analysis
have suggested that, all things considered, the project’s virtues outweigh its impacts.
That has done very little to speed
the permitting process or to dissuade the very real passions of
Parker and her supporters.
All but one of the legal challenges that the alliance and its allied
groups have thus far filed have been
rejected by the courts. The one
success — challenging the Federal
Aviation Administration’s finding
that the project would not impede
air traffic — forced the agency to
revisit its review in 2011. On Aug.
15, 2012, the FAA once again came
to the same conclusion:
“The proposed construction of
the 130 wind turbines, individually and as a group, has no effect on
aeronautical operations. Therefore,
the FAA concludes that the project,
if constructed as proposed, poses
no hazard to air navigation.”
HUFFINGTON
03.10.13
A challenge to that finding
was filed seven days ]\