[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Wind turbines and Patuxent Naval Air Station (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sen. Barbara Mikulski takes action to delay proposed wind farm on  
Eastern Shore

By Jenna Johnson
Washington Post
August 1, 2014

A proposed wind farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore again faces the  
threat of a potentially project-killing delay because of worries that  
the whirling turbines could threaten a sensitive radar system at the  
nearby Patuxent Naval Air Station.

U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate  
Appropriations Committee, has added language to the defense  
appropriation bill that could prevent the Navy from finalizing an  
agreement with the wind farm developers until researchers finish a  
study of the effects of the turbines and what could be done to  
mitigate them.

The study by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory is scheduled for completion by  
next summer. Waiting until then would mean that Pioneer Green Energy,  
the company proposing the wind farm, would have to redo studies  
required to obtain permits and could miss a deadline to qualify for  
federal tax credits. Company officials have said for months that a  
significant delay would effectively kill the project.

The Appropriations Committee approved the bill with Mikulski's  
language in July, but the bill has not gone to a vote on the Senate  
floor. The House of Representatives passed a defense appropriations  
bill earlier this year that did not include the language.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/proposed-wind-farm-on- 
marylands-eastern-shore-again-threatened-with-delay/2014/08/01/ 
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