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Company drops Fairhaven site from wind farm project

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May 5, 2008

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—A company proposing an offshore wind farm in Buzzards Bay says it is dropping one of three locations it was considering.

Patriots Renewables said Monday it's no longer proposing a cluster of wind turbines off the Fairhaven shoreline because of the area's high boat traffic and population of endangered roseate terns.

The company, associated with Jay Cashman Incorporated of Quincy, says it's still studying locations off Dartmouth and Naushon Island.

A spokeswoman for Patriot Renewables, Liz Isherwood, tells the Standard-Times of New Bedford that the project's goal still is to generate 300 megawatts of electricity. She said the company is still studying the other two sites and expects to report on them this summer.

Several other companies also are working on plans to generate electricity off the Massachusetts coast.

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