First the Coast Guard said it, now the DOD is saying it. Cape wind WILL NOT interfere with radar. It can’t get much clearer than that. However like any good Astroturf organization the truth has very little to do with what the opposition to the project’s spokesman say.

First a bit of a run down of the news. The DOD has released a statement that the radar installations on Cape Cod (radar installations that I might add have been accused of causing cancer, and have been VERY unpopular for years) need about 15.5 miles of buffer zone, of which the proposed wind farm is 1.4 miles outside of. A nice big buffer.

“It’s really not considered a problem,” said Rick Lehner, the spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency. He did say that wind turbines would have an effect on radar, but that Cape Wind would not effect any radar stations because of its distance from them. It’s important to point out that this report also mentions that PAVE PAWS is not yet part of the military’s proposed missile defense shield, you know the one lots of people think won’t work and the one that is pissing off Russia.

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