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The Cape Wind guessing game: Take two

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By Beth Daley, Globe Staff

It’s time to replay the Cape Wind guessing game.

The proposed 130 turbine farm's most powerful detractor, Ted Kennedy, was buried this past weekend. Obama came to the Vineyard with nary a word on it.

It's not Cape Wind: The Deer Island sewage treatment plant recently erected two turbines. (MWRA photo)

Seven years of regulatory reviews have determined that the environmental and other impacts of the farm will be negligible. Still, opponents say there needs to be more review. Barring those, they have promised to hold up the proposed farm's construction with lawsuits.

Before U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar can give a final word on the wind farm, an outstanding issue about effects to historic and tribal properties has to be worked out.

Does that mean weeks? Does it mean months? How does Kennedy’s death change things? What about Obama’s silence on the subject?

Here is a recent editorial in the Globe and story in the Los Angeles Times on the subject.