Tar Balls Wash Ashore On Florida Beaches, Scientists Warn Oil May Spread Up Atlantic Coast (VIDEO)

The Cape Wind project was approved by Ken Salazar eight days after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. The project will be developed in the Nantucket Sound, is controversial and opposed by different groups of residents in Nantucket (from Native Americans to fishermen) due to the unknown impact the turbines would have on marine life and migratory birds. Locals who earn their living through tourism are concerned about the effect that so many turbines will have on the "pristine beauty of the Cape Cod area".



This would be the first project of its kind in the US, and no federal or state agency has experience in evaluating the long-term effects of an offshore wind farm. In the FEIS, in the monitoring and mitigation section, the report states that "no federal or state agency has past experience evaluating how projects such as the proposed action will interact with the marine environment...".



Just think of how the Gulf coast states might be different now if the care and concern going into this decision had taken place before the waters off their shores became littered with thousands of oil rigs.



There was a time (early in the 20th century) when oil was considered a tonic, and people drank it like an aperitif. Back when the first asphalt roads were paved, it was common practice for young people to pick up pieces of hot tar off of freshly paved roads and chew it like gum.
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