Governor Won’t Get Wind-Farm Veto Power

Key congressional lawmakers have agreed to drop the idea of giving Massachusetts’ governor, Republican Mitt Romney, veto power over a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, adopting a compromise that could boost the project’s prospects.

The proposed gubernatorial veto power was widely seen as a crippling blow to the project, which would be located about six miles off Cape Cod.

The new legislation introduced in Congress, which breaks weeks of stalemate on Capitol Hill, also ensures the Coast Guard a primary role in deciding the fate of the nation’s first offshore wind farm -- a group of 130 turbines that would produce electricity.