Why are Google and company so confident about the approval process while the Cape Wind project has languished for years?

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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.

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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.

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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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In response the Obama administration may approve more projects like Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind energy project in Massachusetts.

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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.

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