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Bowhead Whale Troubles Cape Wind

Bowhead Whale Tons Of Trouble For Cape Wind  

The Bowhead whale brings up serious issues with Cape Wind and the 2009 antique wind turbine farm proposal.

These whales are endangered species.  

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Do you kill the Bowhead whale or the Cape Wind project ?

The US District Court ruled that two federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act in their review of Cape Wind..  

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service have been mandated by the courts to revisit Cape Wind’s impacts on migrating birds and endangered right whales in Nantucket Sound due to violations of environmental protection law.  

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of the right whale family.  

Now lets look also at the Bowhead whales. Bowheads are protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Time for another review or is Nantucket Sound just the wrong place to build 130 wind turbines ?

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