Its been almost a decade…and finally the damn thing looks like its going to get built.

A federal agency has approved a construction plan for Cape Wind, clearing the way for work to begin on the nation’s first offshore wind farm as early as this fall.

U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar made the announcement in Boston on Tuesday. He said the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has given approval to a Construction and Operations Plan for the project.(via)

I have been involved in the cape wind fight forever, and its always been the same, the people against the project have never won a case, have never had a leg to stand on (legally or scientifically), and is all been about one simple fact. They don’t want to look at it. They are willing to let the whole earth go to hell in a hand bag so long as they don’t have to look at wind turbines from their fancy beach side mansions.

I am so glad that reason has won out over these idiots, lets hope they start construction soon.