New Offshore Task Force for the Cape

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article by David Kibbe of Cape Cod Times
(3/26/03) reports that Massachusetts Governor Romney has created a panel to study offshore windfarms. The legislature had been considering similar action but the Governor's action preempts the need for legislation. Advocates of a task force assert that it's necessary because

Massachusetts Bay [is] the Saudi Arabia of wind energy in the Northeast, and yet we don't really have a process in place to come to grips with that reality," O'Leary told the Energy Committee yesterday.

We will provide updates of the task force's work as it progresses.