Wind power

Legal Headwinds Plague Cape Wind

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Land Report Editors

The oft-delayed Nantucket Sound wind farm faces more hurdles. A District Court in Boston has ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service need to revisit Cape Wind’s impact on migrating birds and endangered…

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Posted in Energy, Feature, Massachusetts, News Desk, Northeast

Market Watch: Cape Wind Project

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Land Report Editors

Is construction on the Cape Wind Farm finally about to get under way?

Tagged with: Alternative energy, Cape Cod, Cape Wind Farm, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Renewable Energy, Wind power
Posted in Feature, News Desk, Stephen OKeefe

68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in California Sells for $48 million

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Land Report Editors

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning on a huge transaction in California: the 68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Bakersfield sold for $48 million ($705 per acre) to a joint partnership of the CIM Group, a…

Native Americans Harvest the Wind

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Each Friday I scan the Escapes section of The New York Times for an urban take on life in the hinterland. But the keeper in today’s Times was not in the Escapes section but in National: Felicity Barringer’s report on how the 29,000 Rosebud…

The Clean Energy Scam

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Amazing new diets, intriguing self-help books, a daily dose of St. John’s Wort – we are a country obsessed with quick fixes. Now, as Time points out in this cover story titled The Clean Energy Myth, we can add ethanol…