"We thought we might be able to stop the project through the permitting process for the sewer-plant expansion," he said.
"If Cape Wind makes it through the permitting process, that is a major feat that no other offshore wind project has achieved in the U.S.," he said.
"What it meant is, we would have had to go back through the permitting processes again, which would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars," Mr. Leonard said.
Because we'd gone through due process with the Australian Antarctic Division, we had gone through the permitting about what we were trying to do, they were aware of us and we'd been approved.
Adopting the motto "Open for Business," Governor Whitman eliminated the environmental prosecutors Mr. Florio had introduced, and replaced a public advocate's office, which had at times sued the state on behalf of environmental groups, with a business ombudsman's office to guide businesses through the permitting process.
To simplify things, the Canadian government set up an online system, BizPal, that can walk you through the permitting process by region and industry.
The MCRC moved forward through the permitting process in 2012.
Fourteen farms in the area have gone through the permitting process to build such dams legally.
Like many clubs and bars in Bucharest, it had skirted through the permitting process with handshakes and informal payments.
