Mass ~ Cape Wind Turbines for offShore Wind Project To be manufactured off shore.

Another significant portion of the Cape Wind project — due to be underwritten by taxpayers and ratepayers — will be built in Europe instead of locally, and an embittered Bay State steel maker claims that’s always been the project developer’s plan.

“Cape Wind used our intended participation to garner public support,” Mass Tank President Carl C. Horstmann wrote to U.S. Energy officials after Cape Wind developer Jim Gordon backed out of a manufacturing deal with his company. An executive at Mass Tank of Middleboro said the split came after his firm spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” learning how to build the massive steel foundations that would support Cape Wind’s turbines in all sorts of weather conditions.[Boston Herald . com]