Ted Kennedy: Build 'Wind Farm' Elsewhere [Arrogant NIMBY alert]

NewsMax ^ | May 31, 2006 | NewsMax

[metesky]

This is gonna cause some fratricidal warfare. IIRC, the Forbes family (as in John Forbes Kerry) owns Naushon Island.

I can hardly wait... he he he.

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[thile44]

Priceless!

[Wristpin]

I dunno what their problem would be.... Once established those stanchions should actually support more biomass than the natural area. If you've ever seen underwater videos of an oil rig, you can see they become an oasis and support increased aquatic life. That's why fisherman love them.

This Wind Farm is supposed to eliminate a coal fired powerplant...What does that do for the Carbon footprint equation? That's the main thing here.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I think a wind farm next to Kennedy would generate slightly more power than a wind farm next to Kerry.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[sandbar]

SAVE THE WORLD!!!

But don't mess with my view.

[P-40]

complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”

On the plus side, adding the windmills will give them more things to run into. :)

[P-40]

I have read that the windfarm would cause serious problems for the fishermen of the area.

I've never heard of them being a detriment to fishing...just a big coon...or boon rather. :)

[reagandemo]

When Kennedy was ask if he liked the idea of a wind farm he replied "if it's a new drink that has Cutty Sark in it I am all for it. Otherwise forget it".

[N. Theknow]

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.”

And John F. "Splash" Kennedy Jr.'s last ditch effort.

[george76]

[george76]

 

[DTogo]

Limousine Liberal S.O.P.

[reagan_fanatic]

And yet Kennedy and the rest of the limousine liberals continue to get away with this kind of hypocrisy time after time with nary a peep from the MSM.

One can only imagine the hellfire and damnation that would rain down upon a REPUBLICAN should he be so bold as to pull a Kennedy like this and try to get away with it.

[newgeezer]

Rush (Maha Rushie, El Rushbo, America's Truth Detector, etc.) has called wind turbines "useless pinwheels."

Therefore, those who hang on his every word summarily dismiss them as environmentalist whacko nonsense.

[pepperdog]

"the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas"

Oh, the horror!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Although the article said they would only be running for a certain percentage of the time.

The limitation on run-time was due to the estimates on how often the wind would be strong enough to provide power.

I read that article, and the author (Koch) made a good economic argument against it -- saying that the project didn't make economic sense in terms of the cost to produce electricity and the percentage of time the wind would be strong enough. That's entirely different than the Kennedy/Kerry positions, which come across as entirely self-interested NIMBY. Aside from that article in the Wall Street Journal, everything else makes me want the project.

[Ditto]

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.

Pretty much true of any wind or solar project.

[b4its2late]

All of those, and some that cannot be printed here.....