[saganite]

While I'm glad Ted Kennedy will now get to view the greening of America in person I'm dismayed by the amount of bureaucracy this company had to endure to build windmills. If anyone expects our govt to find a way out of the energy crisis this story should serve as an object lesson.

[truthguy]

I just wished or wish that some Hollywood Maverick filmmaker would make a movie about this saga. They would be able to point out the sheer hypocrisy of the type of people who live in the Cape Cod Area. The type of people who live in this area and supported energy projects in other areas but not in their backyard are trash of the worst type in my opinion. This fellow Gordon is a national hero for what he has endured. I just wish somebody out there would make that movie. Any of you freepers know any bold filmmakers?

[singfreedom]

The environmental studies necessary for an oil field are just as excessive—and in some areas you can throw in archaeological impact studies, too!!

[sergeantdave]

In the former Soviet Union, the party bosses, bigwigs and soviet bureaucrats were afforded special privileges and got a pass in obeying laws forced on the serfs. They shopped at special stores maintained just for themselves, built dachas and ate the finest foods while cannabalizing the people’s wealth at the point of a gun.

The liberal elites infesting our country are no different - rules are for the little people. About all that’s missing in Nantucket and the Vinyard are fat party generals wearing medals the size of saucers hanging down to their knees. This country is long overdue for a good house sweeping.

[RichInOC]

Somewhere, Howell Heflin is asking...”Oh, Lord. It’s bad enough Ted’s drillin’ offshore. You mean he’s fartin’ too?”

[richardtavor]

Last week, I flew over the North Sea-and noticed a real dichotomy. The first item of interest was an area that had about 50 oil tankers positioned just sw of the oil fields. about a mile or two north of these tankers was a wind farm, with about 100 giant windmills. I thought to myself, the “battle of electricity!”

[ByteMercenary]

Part of the insanity in developing any substantial project is the environmentally oriented ‘studies’. There are usually a multitude of them and each costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Occasionally one of these studies finds something that could affect the project, but usually they are just impediments, boilerplate crap that do nothing except add to the expense and the completion time of the project. Here is a funny thing, many times you could ask the original property owner if there was anything amiss on the land.

A few years ago our school board voted to locate a new elementary building at a particular location. Just about 230 large was spent on the environmental study which found that the site was riddled with small caves and holes in the substrate making the site unsuitable for a building. The board members were happy the report found the potential problem but became dismayed when it was brought up that the rancher who owned the land had pointed out the caves in a newspaper interview.

So, like all of these studies, this one ends up in a safe somewhere never to be looked at again.

[NewHampshireDuo]

It’d be nice if they name the project “The Kennedy Windfarm” and he gets to live long enough to enjoy the view.

[NRG1973]

The cost of windfarm cosntruction is proportional to the cost of crude oil. By delaying the Cape Cod windfarm project, Kennedy has ensured that it will cost about three times more to erect those 130 windmills than it would have 5 years ago.

[Gay State Conservative]

We in the Boston area have the highest electricity rates in the country.So wind power generation around here is a great thing.And the fact that it pi$$es off phony,mult-millionaire “environmentalists” like Teddy,Cronkite and Carly Simon is just icing on the cake.

[Don W]

After having driven through the largest concentration of wind turbines on the continent (the Pincher Creek complex.. see this link) I can honestly tell you that for the amount of power generated (about 1/16 of installed capacity, in the windiest place on the continent), these things are the very definition of unsightly!

I spent some money to travel to and see the Rockie mountains, as I currentlylive on the coast. While the pittance I spent on my vacation (last month)is less than chump change to members of our ruling class, it still means a LOT to me.

I was VERY unhappy to see these tall "bird cuisinarts" overshadowing the majesty and beauty of the mountains. The Rockies are a true natural wonder, and to be upstaged by such a trite and shallow work of man is tragic.

I am NOT a Luddite, but there is a place for pipe dreams. That place is most emphatically NOT between the view of travellers and God's most magnificent work.

To think I seriously considered these wind turbine things on *MY* farm horrifies me!

[Wolfie]

Ah, those filthy stinkin’ rich. You can always count on them to screw over the average Joe.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[CrazyIvan]

The wind off the coast of the Kennedy compound is reserved for the express purpose of pushing million dollar sailing yachts around for amusement of the idle rich.

[Uncledave]

Renewable Energy Ping

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[Uncledave]

"It's easy to understand why entrepreneurs are rushing in. Winds at sea blow stronger and more steadily than on land, where they are slowed by forests, hills, and tall buildings. Unlike terrestrial winds, sea breezes also tend to keep blowing during the hottest times of the day, when the most power is needed. Within a few miles of much of the U.S. coastline, in almost any direction, wind resources are more abundant and dependable than anywhere outside the Great Plains. Exploiting this resource could supply about 5% of all U.S. electricity by 2030, says the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."

[DTogo]

"This is like trying to put a wind farm in Yellowstone National Park, as far as we're concerned,"

And why not a steam turbine next to Old Faithful while we're at it!