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ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND, INC. v. ENERGY FACILITIES SITING BOARD

448 Mass. 45 (2006)

ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND, INC. v. ENERGY FACILITIES SITING BOARD & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 18, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence P. Heffernan (Kristine E. Kraushaar with him) for the plaintiff.

Edward J. DeAngelo, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

David S. Rosenzweig (Erika J. Hafner with him) for the intervener.

Susan M. Reid, for Conservation Law Foundation, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

The Energy Facilities Siting Board (board) conditionally approved a petition filed jointly by Cape Wind Associates, LLC (Cape Wind), and Commonwealth Electric Company, doing business as NSTAR Electric (NSTAR) (together, applicants), to build and operate two 115 kilovolt underground and undersea electric transmission lines approximately eighteen miles in length. The transmission lines would connect an offshore...

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