Nice to see that a couple rich property owners and dirty coal/oil/gas executives can’t keep the public from what it wants, clean renewable energy.

The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in the case, which challenged the adequacy and jurisdiction of the state’s review of the project under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act.

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he lawsuit against the state and Cape Wind is not the only legal protest to the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. There is also a lawsuit challenging the ruling by the state Energy Facilities Siting Board, which overruled a denial of Cape Wind by the Cape Cod Commission. An appeal of that decision is ongoing.

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service — the lead federal agency in the project’s review — released a largely favorable draft environmental impact statement on the project in January.

A final version of the federal report is due by the end of the year, and a new flurry of legal action is expected to follow its release. (via)

The pattern so far has been thus, Cape Wind gets a favorable ruling from some government agency, the NIMBY’s sue, the NIMBY’s lose, the NIMBY’s find something else to sue about. Frankly it is shameful that these people would be doing this, but at least they keep having to pay for their silly (and wasteful) lawsuits. One day you will be able to go to a few beaches on the Cape and on a really really clear day you will see a beautiful array of wind turbines on the horizon. These turbines will be providing 75% of the Capes power from clean renewable wind energy. Or I guess we can keep burning coal and oil and let global warming destroy the Cape. The choice seems clear, Cape Wind or bust!