As the first shallow water offshore project under review in the United States, utility-scale projects like Cape Wind are important to our national interest and a critical first step to building a domestic, globally competitive wind industry. Success in the project could also lay the foundation for a focused national investment to develop offshore wind technology in the coming years.
-- David Garman, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy
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Climate change blamed as birds fail to breed Thursday, September 01, 2005
SEABIRDS have suffered an appalling breeding season around much of Scotland's coast, research from three of the country's leading conservation organisations has shown.