Posted on 02/27/2006 1:17:48 PM PST by ncountylee
Self-proclaimed alternative energy proponent Sen. Ted Kennedy has strongly opposed an environmentally friendly "wind farm” off the coast of Massachusetts – and now it appears Kennedy will have his way.
A proposal before Congress would limit the construction of wind turbines and most likely doom plans for the Cape Wind Project, the nation’s first offshore wind farm. [Editor’s Note: Read the book that first exposed Sen. Kennedy’s hypocrisy -- Go Here Now.]
"This is a dire moment for us,” declared Mark Rodgers, a Cape Wind Associates spokesman, who said the proposal "would be totally fatal” for the project.
The Cape Wind Project would erect 130 windmills in Nantucket Sound and could provide three-fourths of the power needed by Cape Cod and nearby islands, which is now largely supplied by coal-fired plants.
But Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has called for a ban on all wind turbines within 1.5 nautical miles of shipping and ferry lanes, The Washington Post reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Have you ever been out to California and driven through the Altamont Pass? It's the nation's largest wind farm, and the freeway snakes right through the middle of it. I could practically throw a soda can out my sunroof and hit one of those spinning monstrosities.
If you're buying Ted Kennedy's "navigational safety" argument, there's a bridge some miles north of Altamont that I could offer you a good deal on, too.
Then Kennedy shouldn't mind his family's power bills increasing by 10,000%.
So is he Don Quixote, Sancho or both?
Duplicity has always been Kennedys' strong suit.
I wonder what we are suppose to use for energy; coal - to dirty, oil - pollutes the air, nuclear - dangerous, windmills - to ugly. What are we going to use?
By Philip Warburg, president and Susan Reid, staff attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation
Our elected officials in Washington must act swiftly to ensure that Cape Wind moves forward with its environmental review. Senator Kennedy and the rest of the Massachusetts congressional delegation should join Senator Kerry's 11th-hour call, this past Friday, to stop Congressman Young's abuse of the legislative process.
We also look to the ongoing leadership of Senator Olympia Snowe from Maine, who should employ her critical role on the conference committee to further her legacy as a champion of renewable energy, rather than tolerating this misguided step backward.
Note: Read the op-ed in today's Boston Globe
Rep. Don Young has stepped into a raging Nor'easter over a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod, and now he is tossing in an ocean of ironies that has him on the same side of the feud as two renowned liberals -- Sen. Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Note: Read the article in the Anchorage Daily News
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