In a rebuke to the litigious strategy of a group bent on stopping a massive wind farm in the waters off Cape Cod, a federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed their latest lawsuit and warned that their legal campaign was becoming “a vexatious abuse of the democratic process.”
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston threw out the case on Friday, siding against what he called an “obdurate band of aggrieved residents of Cape Cod and the islands” who oppose the project. The developer, Cape Wind Associates LLC, plans to construct 130 wind turbines over 24 square miles of ocean in view of some of the most prime Northeast real estate.
