Legal Opinion
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. Hopper
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 5, 2016No. 14-5301; Consolidated with 14-5303PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge:
The Cape Wind Energy Project is a proposal to generate electricity from windmills off the coast of Massachusetts. It calls for the “construction, operation and maintenance ... of 130 wind turbine generators” in the Horseshoe Shoal region of Nantucket Sound. The turbines have an estimated life-span of twenty years, and during that time they are expected to generate up to three-quarters of the electricity needs for Cape Cod and the surrounding islands. The project’s “underlying purpose” is to help the region achieve Massachusetts’s renewable energy requirements,…
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