Posted on 06/01/2006 6:04:15 AM PDT by upchuck
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:12 p.m. EDT
Ted Kennedy: Build 'Wind Farm' Elsewhere
Sen. Ted Kennedy has strongly opposed an environmentally friendly "wind farm” off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis. Now he supports building another wind farm – in somebody else’s "backyard.”
A Boston contractor has submitted plans to construct a $750 million offshore complex of 90 to 120 wind turbine towers near Naushon Island and the towns of Dartmouth and Fairhaven to supply electricity to about 240,000 homes.
While the Cape Wind project Kennedy opposed would have been "in view of some of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts’ Cape Cod,” the new proposal is for a "project in view of more working-class areas,” according to CNN and Reuters.
Kennedy and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who also opposes the Cape Wind project, "have voiced tentative support for the latest proposal,” Reuters reports.
Paul Andonian, a resident of New Bedford – one of the towns that would benefit from the new project – said he thought it stood a better chance of being built than the Cape Wind project because it appears to face less "political opposition.”
Kennedy had lobbied for a provision giving Gov. Romney veto power over the Cape Wind project.
In his book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," author Peter Schweizer disclosed that Kennedy opposed the Cape Wind project because "the wind turbines would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis.
"The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
arrogant artificial cocky conceited deceitful domineering egotistical glib etc.
If he believes that a wind farm built on a reef endangers boaters, then he not only drinks like a Kennedy, but navigates like one too!
drunk
And they're noisy too. Global noise, an inconvenient truth.
Of course someone could call and tell them to turn down the stereo. But then we might hear the screams of another rape victim.
Damn I'm in a mean mood this morning.
Disgusting, but predictable. The media here in MA will give Ted a pass, but Howie Carr won't.
Typical arrogant DUmmy crap.
How this bloviating gas-bag has managed to continue in the senate for as long as he has is a testimony to the power of the Kennedy name forty years after the death of JFK.
There are a few of these "windmills" ,in the waters, in Hull, MA a few towns over. To be honest, I love the way they look.
I have read that the windfarm would cause serious problems for the fishermen of the area. Some people from this forum said the same thing. If that is the case, is this necessarily wrong.
Our Founding Fathers would be so ashamed of us for putting up with charlatans such as Kennedy, and so angry with us for actually voting them into office over and over again. They would grieve for the failure of their idea of representative government because they thought Americans would have better sense.
Less effect on the fish if it's built off the shore of a "working-class" area?
Only if this is taken into consideration everywhere that wind turbines are placed, and not just off the Kennedy compund. I know that it doesn't seem to bother the cows in the pastures where the wind turbines are out here in California.
They said the same thing about offshore oil rigs. Now they form an artificial reef off of Louisiana's coast, teeming with ocean life.
To put it more accurately,and succinctly:
Amoral
There was a piece in the WSJ on this. It said that the cost of this windfarm would exceed the benefit and might actually cost customers more in the long run. Although the article said they would only be running for a certain percentage of the time. I say, let them run them as much as possible and export the surplus power for extra revenue.
Huh?
Naushon Island is the Forbes family "summer retreat", as in John FORBES Kerry.
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