[CPEO-MEF] Windmills "no issue" for PAVE PAWS (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wind farm won't interfere with radar

By Patrick Cassidy
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 16, 2007

Both sides in the debate over the 130-turbine wind farm proposed for 
Nantucket Sound claimed vindication yesterday in a federal report that 
designates a buffer zone around military radar.

The nine-page report by the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency 
says turbines outside a buffer zone emanating approximately 
25-kilometers, or 15.5 miles, from the Air Force-run PAVE PAWS radar 
station in Sagamore should not cause a problem.

The hotly debated Cape Wind project missed being in the zone by 1.4 miles.

PAVE PAWS is one of two radar facilities of its kind in the continental 
United States and five worldwide responsible for missile warning and 
space surveillance. The facility's buffer zone includes much of the 
Upper Cape to Yarmouth and parts of the coastline northwest to Plimoth 
Plantation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070616/NEWS/706160335/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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