Alliance chief plans to step down (Head of opposition to Cape Wind)

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Alliance chief plans to step down

By Patrick Cassidy
STAFF WRITER
January 10, 2008

The leader of a group at the forefront of a seven-year fight over the wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound will "transition" out of that position within a month.

Charles Vinick, president of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, said yesterday he would likely step down at the next meeting of the organization's board of directors.

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Vinick also confirmed that for the past few months he provided consulting services for a California wind energy technology and development company.

The Alliance was formed to combat a proposal by Jim Gordon, president of Boston-based Cape Wind Associates LLC, to build 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal in the sound.

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