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Comment on Feds move to revoke SouthCoast Wind permit by Scott Terry
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Comments for The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Trump administration has officially gone after a key permit for SouthCoast Wind, a 141-turbine project planned for 26 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
A motion filed Sept. 18 said that the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), seeks a remand of the approval of SouthCoast Wind’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP), a necessary and one of the final permits to start construction.
The plan was originally submitted on Feb. 15, 2021, and it took almost four years to receive the approval.
Earlier this month, the government revealed plans to revoke SouthCoast’s permit in a document that asked a federal court to pause a lawsuit filed by the town of Nantucket against the wind farm.
In a statement to The New Bedford Light, officials of SouthCoast Wind said the approval “reflected an extensive public process that incorporated feedback from federal and state government agencies, commercial ocean users, Tribal Nations and many other stakeholders.
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