Cape Wind project clears Mass. high court hurdle

Cape Wind had gone to the state after a local board, the Cape Cod Commission, rejected in 2007 its request to build about 18 miles of undersea and underground transmission cables to connect to the regional electric power grid. The local board said Cape Wind hadn’t provided sufficient information.

But the AP piece makes clear that the project isn’t out of the woods just yet.

Audra Parker, head of the chief opposition group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, called the decision “an outrageous violation of community rights.”

Though the decision can’t be appealed, the fight to kill the project continues on many fronts, she said, including pending legal challenges to Cape Wind’s federal approval.