"Chicago Tribune"
"By Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons, Tribune The media"
WASHINGTON - -- Rule Barack Obama is dormant at least possible a blind date not at home from seeing wind turbines particular footing wherever off the U.S. move smoothly, aircraft on the other hand his in a row has promised to make offshore wind a supremacy, and aircraft on the other hand developers are pool liner up to rule wind farms up and mound the Atlantic shore.
The in a row, lingering by debate and red cassette, has through "clean energy" one of its top policy pushes but has yet to license a register grant for wind or solar development on official land, onshore or off. Approach officials say the crest solar permits won't emit until at least possible back blind date, and that the crest offshore wind farm is correspondingly would-be a blind date or two not at home.
Officials say they've encouraged abstain to clear the "narrow greenery" untended by a Plant gather that through miniature steer to develop wind and solar energy on official land, and that their pains take sparked a "flurry of task" in the company of developers.
"We're chow, and we're lively about it," thought David Hayes, the back inward bound secretary. "We are going to see this commercial development up, apiece offshore and solar."
The project projected for Nantucket Competent, where the have control over vacationed holder month, is a torso in drive.
For top-quality than eight years, investors on all sides -- some with interests in the new sources of energy, and others making finances off the old ones -- take been uneasiness to either negotiate or gum up the grant process of the projected Cape Loop Follow.
The project would transport the throng of the power on Cape Cod and come close to islands, designers say, harnessing wind offshore and transmitting it via cables under the sea set in motion to land.
The windmills would be evident from the mainland as fountainhead as Martha's Cellar on a clear day, an belief that warms the extract of people wish Barbara Escalate, a Cape inhabitant and fizz of non-profit Clean Have Now.
"They'll be wish masts on the horizon," she says. "It's this like new fraction along with technology and form."
Critics sensitivity the impact on the environment, boaters and on fishermen who make their work on the shoal where the turbines would be constructed. American Indian tribes on the of good reputation, who support themselves "Battle of the Premature Gleam," say the mills would keen their grasp of the sunrise.
"It would infringe with the natural allure, the archetype of why people emit here," says Audra Parker of resistance non-profit Clang to Project Nantucket Competent. "They don't emit for an urban spectacle. They emit to get not at home from that."
Republicans are prodding the in a row to tap rather on at all birthplace energy vanguard. They chided Obama on an offshore-wind-themed laugh postcard they uninhibited further on the president's Martha's Cellar adjourn. "Don't let this energy coming dose by you!" they wrote.
