For at least one more summer, vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard won’t be able to gaze across the water and see, far off on the horizon, the churning blades of offshore wind turbines — no matter how badly the island’s most famous current vacationer would like.
President Obama, now summering on the Massachusetts island with his family, is still at least a year away from seeing turbines take root anywhere off the U.S. coast, even though his administration promised to make offshore wind a priority and developers are lining up to string wind farms up and down the Atlantic seaboard.
His administration, delayed by controversy and red tape, has yet to grant a single permit for wind or solar development on public land, onshore or off.
Administration officials say the first solar permits won’t come until at least next year and the first offshore wind farm is probably a year or two away.
The officials say they’ve moved quickly to clear the “regulatory underbrush” untended by a George W. Bush administration team that spent little money or effort to develop wind and solar energy on public land.
They are blaming Bush for this?!?
I’ll got out on a limb here and say there will never be a wind farm off of Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket.





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