Cape Cod Wind Farm Project May Be Headed for Pasture

Massachusetts’ governor is likely to get veto rights over a plan Sen. Edward Kennedy opposes also.

BOSTON

Kennedy is a Cape Cod property owner and a longtime foe of the project. With the senator’s approval, a provision that would allow the governor of a state adjacent to the Nantucket Sound site to quash the development was attached to a routine Coast Guard funding bill. Massachusetts is the only state that abuts the proposed site, which sits in federal waters, and Gov. Mitt Romney also opposes the bill. The House and Senate are expected to consider the measure later this month.

Cape Wind supporters are outraged, claiming that in a textbook display of Washington horse-trading, the veto authority was quietly tacked on to an unrelated bill that was sure to pass.

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