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Interior Department Approves Building of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
Fox News ^ | 04/28/2010 | Cristina Corbin

Posted on 04/28/2010 9:41:13 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is headed to Boston Wednesday to make an announcement about a controversial wind farm project on Cape Cod that could put the Obama administration at odds with one of the president's biggest supporters: the Kennedy family.

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KEYWORDS: capewind; windfarms
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Teddy boy's rolling in his grave.
1 posted on 04/28/2010 9:41:14 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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I do believe the Kennedy family is about as relevant today as a warm pail of piss. Maybe bammy’s boys are trying to shine up Sen Brown?


2 posted on 04/28/2010 9:43:05 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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Patches the drunk-druggie is gonna get chopped up in those blades!


3 posted on 04/28/2010 9:43:48 AM PDT by avacado
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Remind me again how many Kennedy's will be in Congress after this November.

Thanks.

4 posted on 04/28/2010 9:44:17 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Frenchtown Dan; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is headed to Boston Wednesday to make an announcement about a controversial wind farm project on Cape Cod that could put the Obama administration at odds with one of the president's biggest supporters: the Kennedy family.

Wow, the Kennedy Klan isn't gonna like this... LOL

Interesting related article:

The Third Reich was also interested in "wind power"

Excerpt:

...American readers will find two sections particularly intriguing: development of wind energy in Germany during the Third Reich, and a critical comparison of the German, U.S., and Danish wind energy programs in the modern era.

Die Geschichte der Windenergienutzung contains the most extensive discourse to date on the Third Reich's interest in wind energy and an unflattering matter-of-fact description of attempts by some of the grand names in German wind energy to curry favor with the Nazis.

After they seized power in 1930s the Nazi's began a systematic program for assuring self-sufficiency in time of war. The development of wind turbines became a part, though never a big part, of this program.

In a chapter provocatively titled "Inventor or Charlatan: The Era of Big Wind Power Plants," Heymann reveals his discovery of a damning telegram from Hermann Honnef to propaganda minister Goebbels pleading for a favorable word from Adolph Hitler on Honnef's proposal to build towering multi-turbine monstrosities. Playing upon Nazi ideological desire for technological superiority, Honnef implored, "Help open the way for German ability! I am waiting for the Führer's call! Heil Hitler! Faithfully yours: Hermann Honnef."

In a subsequent chapter Heymann describes the Ventimotor company, its test center near Weimar, and its key personnel. The company was formed in late 1940 by Walther Schieber and Fritz Sauckel to develop wind turbines that could be used in the war effort....

5 posted on 04/28/2010 9:47:42 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

The Kennedy’s are not the point, the liberal hypocracy is.

But I don’t think Zerobama would have Ok’d it when Ted was alive.


6 posted on 04/28/2010 9:49:51 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan

Turning ~ he’s turning in his grave, and shortly we’ll get this sucker hooked up right and he’ll be spinning in his grave!


7 posted on 04/28/2010 9:49:57 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: avacado

Not unless his high is about 400 feet up.

But you have a point. In Texas there was opposition because a crow flew into one. It must have been an old and sick one, otherwise why don’t we blame trees for killing birds?


8 posted on 04/28/2010 9:53:17 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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Aren’t environmentalists the only ones who think wind farms are beautiful? Wind farms are hideous!


9 posted on 04/28/2010 9:54:23 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: nutmeg

Interesting.

The Germans could also make gasoline from coal.


10 posted on 04/28/2010 9:55:57 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: historyrepeatz

Wind farms are bird killers too, but the green wackos don’t give a crap about birds.. or scenery for that matter. “Green” is code for Progressivism which has nothing to do with the environment.


11 posted on 04/28/2010 9:56:16 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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But 5 miles out to sea?

Ted Kennedy did’t like them because on a clear day with binoculars he might be able to see one or two.


12 posted on 04/28/2010 9:57:11 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: historyrepeatz

More birds fly into windows in buildings.
More birds are hit by cars.
More birds are killed by little kitty.
Even more birds eggs are eaten by kitty.

But birds don’t fly into trees and get killed I guess.

This is a just an excuse.
When you pay 6.00 a gallon of gas, you might not care so much about birds flying into windmill blades that don’t rotate very fast.

Also there are ways to prevent this, so it is just an excuse.


13 posted on 04/28/2010 10:02:01 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping! I was not aware of the connection with the Third Reich.


14 posted on 04/28/2010 10:09:26 AM PDT by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Frenchtown Dan
Teddy boy's rolling in his grave.

Think we could harness some of that energy :-)

15 posted on 04/28/2010 10:11:17 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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I think there’s a lot of hot air we could harness from the Kennedy clan.


16 posted on 04/28/2010 10:16:45 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


17 posted on 04/28/2010 10:17:03 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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The Third Reich was also interested in "wind power"

Excerpts in my post #5 above.

18 posted on 04/28/2010 10:19:11 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: KosmicKitty

ROTFL!


19 posted on 04/28/2010 10:19:40 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: NYer
Thanks for the ping! I was not aware of the connection with the Third Reich.

You're welcome, NYer. I wasn't aware of it 'til recently either...

20 posted on 04/28/2010 10:20:25 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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