Posted on 12/15/2005 7:14:56 AM PST by george76
A plan to build what could become the first large offshore wind farm in the United States would be effectively killed by a proposed amendment to a Coast Guard budget bill now making its way through Congress, people on both sides of the issue say.
The amendment, offered by Representative Don Young, Republican of Alaska, would prohibit new offshore wind facilities within 1.5 nautical miles of a shipping lane or a ferry route.
That would rule out construction of the installation, proposed for Nantucket Sound.
The budget bill awaits action in a House-Senate conference committee.
The developer, a private company called Cape Wind Associates, says the turbines could produce three-quarters of the electricity now used on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Greenpeace, the American Lung Association and other organizations endorse the plan as an important step in reducing pollution and global warming.
But...Senator Edward M. Kennedy say that Nantucket Sound, a major attraction for the region's tourism economy, is an inappropriate place for so large an industrial installation ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What do you plant to grow wind? Beans?
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy say that Nantucket Sound, a major attraction for the region's tourism economy, is an inappropriate place for so large an industrial installation ...
Not in my backyard, eh, Orca?
Go drown an intern, ya fat drunken murdering commie!
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'"
~~ Theodore Roosevelt
I once knew a woman from Nantucket...
Sound like a federally-approved, limosine-liberal case of NIMBY.
Here's my impression of the limosine liberal when asked the wind mills shouldn't be allowed off of Nantucket:
"It's good for the people, but our sensibilities are more sophisticated. It would be hard for the people to understand that our beautiful Nantucket view would be treacherously spoiled by these wind mills. Why don't they put these in Kansas, where they might do the people some good."This is typical elitist crap. Ruin their view, not mine.
There is only one solution for achieving the Liberal goal of "environmental friendliness" and that is for a lot of people to die.
Technologically, we can reduce the growth of our pollution output, but we can't actually decrease our overall pollution output. The reason is simply that the large majority of the world's economies are not sufficiently advanced, nor are their governments reasonably capable of environmentally friendly policies, and most of the increase in pollution will be due to these "other" nations, and extraordinary actions taken by the developed nations will achieve very little compared to the flood of pollution generated by the developing world.
Perhaps the best policy for cleaning up the planet is to accelerate third and second world economic growth, which would radically increase their pollution output in the short term, but would more rapidly restrict their impact.
Good place for a coal fired power plant ?
A windfarm in Nantucket? Isn't that where all the beautiful people vacation? Shouldn't this go somewhere like Myrtle Beach, where all the riff raff vacation?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
How many tons of pollution does the coal fired powerplant spew each year?
Tedddy is not a good sailor...No telling what he might run into.
Did he get stuck on a bar with his boat?
Plus he can not drive an oldsmobile, either.
I'm worried that this might cause global slowing (or speeding, depending on the wind direction).
Don't you just love it when magic numbers, such as 1.5 nautical miles that don't seem to have any rational basis, pop up in proposed legislation without any explanation? Could it be that that number was chosen specifically to achieve the goals of Drunken Traitor Ted Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, through a back-door route? Representative Don Young, Republican of Alaska, needs to come clean on exactly where that number came from.
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