22 Jul, 2024 Reading about failed turbine blades & "alkalinity enhancement"? Well we've dealt ourselves a lousy climate hand and don't have the luxury of folding. By Jeff Porter Two Boston Globe stories I read this weekend on the rapidly shrinking island of Nantucket this weekend are worthy of your attention. ...
25 Apr, 2024 ACK RAT's attempt to kill the Vineyard Wind Project ended exactly as we knew it would -- in defeat -- but not without damage. By Jeff Porter The First Circuit Court of Appeals has finally ended the Nantucket Residents Against Turbines' lawsuit against the United States Bureau...
26 Feb, 2024 Next week the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from opponents of the Vineyard Wind project and that brings to mind Irwin M. Fletcher. By Jeff Porter On March 5th, three Judges of the First Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from lawyers for residents of Nantucket who sued to stop the...
26 May, 2023 If you're sad about Sackett, you may be happier about Seafreeze By Jeff Porter About a year and a half ago I wrote about one of the four lawsuits brought in an attempt to halt the Vineyard Wind project (see...
19 May, 2023 Vineyard Wind has almost succeeded in ending one of the three NIMBY lawsuits against it but that's beside the point. By Jeff Porter ACK Rat's attempt to kill the Vineyard Wind project came closer to an unsuccessful end this week when Federal Judge Talwani granted a...
25 Jan, 2023 This NIMBY lawsuit is doomed but that doesn't mean that it won't cause considerable harm before it dies. By Jeff Porter Yesterday the Nantucket Residents Against Turbines were in Federal Court arguing the merits of their last ditch effort to stop the...
11 Mar, 2022 In Vineyard Wind Case DOJ Recognizes Possibility of Informational Injury Standing to Sue By Jeff Porter Earlier this week the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss a solar developer's legal challenge to the Vineyard Wind project. ...
11 Jan, 2022 NIMBYs Will Now Be Opposed By the Justice Department and Vineyard Wind in Effort to Block Project in Court By Jeff Porter News this morning that a Federal District Court Judge in Massachusetts has granted Vineyard Wind's motion to intervene in the two...
25 Aug, 2021 At least these NIMBYies are honest -- another legal challenge to the Vineyard Wind project By Jeff Porter Today brings another lawsuit in federal court by NIMBYies, this time on Nantucket, seeking to kill the Vineyard Wind project. As in a...