Officials should have noted Wampanoag concerns 5 years ago

WHAT IS no surprise is where the Boston Globe stands on the Cape Wind industrial project. Page A1, paragraph one, of Beth Daley’s Oct. 26 article "2 tribes object to Cape Wind turbines" states that tribal issues have ‘‘emerged as a surprising lastminute obstacle to federal approval’’ of the offshore wind farm, but then buried in the back of the paper, in the continuation of the article, Daley writes, ‘‘Since 2004, the Wampanoag have communicated to federal officials that Nantucket Sound is critical to their spiritual wellbeing.’’ Perhaps if tribe concerns had been listened to five years ago, this would have all been resolved by now.