Cape Wind Developer Terminates Project Opposed by Kennedys, Koch

Cape Wind is officially dead.

Energy Management Inc. has ceased efforts to build what was once expected to become the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., according to an Dec. 1 statement from Chief Executive Officer Jim Gordon.

The project’s Boston-based developer has already notified the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it’s terminated the offshore wind development lease it received in 2010.

Development efforts started in 2001, but Cape Wind faced relentless opposition from a mix of strange bedfellows including the Kennedy family and billionaire industrialist William Koch.

While EMI won several court battles, it was ...