TEN LOCAL CITIZEN GROUP v. NEW ENGLAND WIND, LLC

SJC-10585.

457 Mass. 222 (2010)

TEN LOCAL CITIZEN GROUP & another v. NEW ENGLAND WIND, LLC, & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 6, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Bartenstein (Robert O. Lucido, II, with him) for the plaintiffs.

William L. Pardee, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Environmental Protection.

Gregor I. McGregor (Nathaniel Stevens with him) for New England Wind, LLC.

James B. Art, for town of Florida & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Christopher B. Myhrum, for Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

The plaintiffs brought an action in the Superior Court pursuant to G. L. c. 30A, § 14, seeking review of a final decision of the acting commissioner (commissioner) of the Department of Environmental Protection (department) that a project proposed by the defendant New England Wind, LLC (developer), complied with the Wetlands Protection Act (act), G. L. c. 131, § 40. On cross motions for judgment on the pleadings, the judge denied the plaintiffs...

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