Cape Wind Web Site http://www.capewind.org
9-7-2007 News Update
Senator Ted Kennedy's Blocking
Alternative Energy Wind Farm Off Nantucket Finally Gets Loud Protests
Liberal darling Ted Kennedy has run afoul of
the left over his opposition to a controversial wind farm project in Massachusetts.
Liberals “are now sliming Senator Ted Kennedy,” reports syndicated columnist
Froma Harrop. “Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish ‘Daily
Show’ on Comedy Central makes fun of him.”
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. The energy-producing wind farm on Nantucket Sound was
slated to be the first such project in the U.S., and polls showed that 84 percent of state
residents favor it.
But the project has been “frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy
included, who don’t want to see windmills from their verandas,” writes Harrop,
who’s on the staff of the Providence Journal.
The Cape Wind Project would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast
from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis and the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually
see the turbines from their home. Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been blabbing about
alternative sources of energy has complained that the project would be built in one of the
family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
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3-2007 News
Leading liberal and clean energy mouthpiece....Sen. Edward "Teddy" Kennedy
adamently opposes an environmentally friendly "wind farm” off the coast of
Massachusetts. 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
A contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers stated that the wind farm "is not
expected to create negative impacts to navigational safety.” The wind turbines would
be in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis.
But the project had a boasterous and powerful enemy in Sen. Kennedy, who has voiced strong
support for alternative energy projects... as long as they are not in his backyard or in
his view.
"The problem is not aesthetic. Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has a home overlooking the
proposed wind farm. 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, "the project would be built in
one our family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
Compare the wind farm to offshore oil drilling. The government has put whole sections of
the outer continental shelf out of bounds for drilling, but not for wind farms. Oil
companies have to bid for leases and face major hurdles before they can explore or develop
an oil field, which can take up to 10 years. Cape Wind wants to do it in half that time.
"I've seen grocery stores take longer to get permitted on Cape Cod than this project
will take- Cape Wind Web Site http://www.capewind.org
The campaign to stop the wind farms was started by Cape Cod merchants and wealthy
landowners like the Kennedys and Walter Cronkite. Former CBS anchorman Walter
Cronkite blurted out, "Our natural treasures should be off limits to
industrialization, and Nantucket is one of those treasures." |
