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By Peter Brennan

Taking advantage of relaxed regulations and Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm a healthy sense of state pride, Texas is apparently leading the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm pack in the race to develop offshore wind.

According to Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm reports, the first offshore wind turbine in the United States could be Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm a one-turbine demonstration project in that state.

In contrast to the rest of the United States – where federal jurisdiction begins three miles from shore – the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm Gulf of Mexico is the property of the state up to Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm three leagues (10.35 miles) out.  As a Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm result, the same level of federal approval is not required for Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm wind projects within the extended three-league boundary.

This loophole was brought about by a Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm 1960 Supreme Court decision and gives Texas a huge permitting advantage over states such as Massachusetts, where Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm the Cape Wind project has been in the approval process for Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm nine years and only signed an offshore lease with the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm federal government earlier this month.  Texas has already signed leases for eight offshore wind projects.

One of those projects, owned by CenterPoint Energy, is Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm hoping to be up and running with a year. However, the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm initial splash could come off the coast of Galveston Island, and Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm take the form of a one-turbine, 2.75 MW, demonstration project.

The initial turbine has Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm officially been described as the precursor to a 300 MW wind farm off the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm coast of Galveston, but it has also lead to speculation that Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm Texas officials are rushing the first turbine into the water for Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm bragging rights.  Recent comments from Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm a state official did nothing to dismiss this possibility.

Jim Suydam, spokesman for Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm the Texas General Land Office, was asked about the timing of the Alprazolam With Tylenol Pm first turbine by the Washington Independent and said, “well, we’re Texas, of course we want to be first.”

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