Pentagon Study On Effects To Radar Ongoing

Construction on a huge wind farm project in Minnesota is underway... after the local utility got a green light from the FAA, which had said it was worried about possible interference with radar signals.

The first of 43 windmill-like generators is now under construction, after the FAA -- spurred by Virginia Senator John Warner... took a good look at the possibility of interference with radars, after landowners on Cape Cod protested the proposed construction of a similar wind farm there.

Warner -- who, incidentally, spends a lot of vacation time in Cape Cod -- attached the demand for an investigation to a piece of military funding legislation back in January.

The Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security then blocked all wind farm construction in the US... shutting down plans for wind turbine construction on Cape Cod, and at dozens of sites around the country, until a study on the effects of such construction on military and civilian radars is finished.

Well, the Pentagon says that study is still underway... but the FAA has started allowing some of the embattled energy projects to go ahead. That decision comes after threats from Illinois' two Democratic senators to hold up all sorts of legislation until the government determines the true risk of wind farms to radar reception.

FMI: www.faa.gov