The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound said it would continue to fight Cape Wind.
But while Romney is against Cape Wind, he has been bullish on investing in green technology.
Cape Wind has signed long-term contracts to sell 78% of its power to the state's largest utilities.
In response the Obama administration may approve more projects like Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind energy project in Massachusetts.
Furthermore, Jim Gordon, the CEO of Cape Wind, has expressed his intent to stage out of New Bedford in 2014.
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Why are Google and company so confident about the approval process while the Cape Wind project has languished for years?
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Consider the planned 130-turbine Cape Wind development off Nantucket Sound for example.
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Since June, Cape Wind has faced a legal challenge from a group that includes Californians who normally lobby in favour of renewable energy.
Cape Wind is being built by private developer Energy Management Inc.
The best known among the offshore wind proposals is that of Cape Wind, which got approval to operate in 2010 after nine years of regulatory battles.
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Cape Wind has yet to clear one major regulatory hurdle: the Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing the project after opponents appealed its initial approval in 2010.
Energy Management, a 28-year-old energy company based in New England, plans to build a 468-megawatt wind power facility off the coast of Massachusetts: the Cape Wind project.
The Cape Wind project is the most developed of any proposals to build wind facilities on the OCS, but a number of other offshore wind power proposals are also in the works.
If financing can be finalized and Cape Wind is eventually built, the Interior Department's lease will allow it to operate for 25 years, which is the average lifespan of a wind farm.
The turbines are "majestic and beautiful, " and on a clear day would appear "like a half-inch sailing mast on the horizon, " said Jim Gordon, the president of Energy Management, Cape Wind's developer.
"This FAA approval allows Cape Wind to move forward and jump-start the new American industry in offshore wind power that will help light up the East Coast, " Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rogers told CNN.
But Mr Salazar insists that the Cape Wind project is not only desirable in itself, but a precursor to other wind parks on America's Atlantic coast, which has up to 1m megawatts of capacity.
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As noted by Peter Wilson in the American Thinker, Cape Wind has entered into a separate agreement with another utility, National Grid, to sell them their electricity for 18.7 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) with a 3.5% annual increase over the next 15 years.
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His cape swirls in the wind that screams around the tower and he looks grimly down upon the city.
If you want to get active, Cape Town's wind-whipped waves and Table Mountain is a nirvana for the adventure sport enthusiast, with operators lining up to ensure you do not go home without having experienced adrenaline rushes like surfing and rock climbing.
He supports clean energy, just not in the form of wind turbines off the coast of Cape Cod.
With a little more wind, the Chinese might have rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
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