Posted on 12/16/2005 8:14:17 AM PST by pabianice
By R.F. Kennedy, Jr.
AS an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many. But I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project.
Environmental groups have been enticed by Cape Wind, but they should be wary of lending support to energy companies that are trying to privatize the commons - in this case 24 square miles of a heavily used waterway. And because offshore wind costs twice as much as gas-fired electricity and significantly more than onshore wind, the project is financially feasible only because the federal and state governments have promised $241 million in subsidies...
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Another effette nimby parasite.
Where'd you get this PFC salary and other info? A quick google didn't even find mention of this organization.
R.F. Kennedy, Jr.......
might be the dumbest man alive.
Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow benind that tree.
leftist/loser/liberal/loon/lingo
Located where?
Since when does this hypocrit care how much it costs to generate energy? The wind is the wind. What difference does it make if it blows over ground or over water?
AS an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many.
Located where?""
A mobile unit, sufficient distance in front of his family member, Teddy, who blows nothing but hot air and an ill wind.......
He means anywhere he does not have to see them. Build it where the hoipolio live.
I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park.
I wouldn't either but I would build a geo thermal energy farm there.
Perhaps I've just missed it, but I have yet to see an environmentalist group promote a specific location as appropriate for a windfarm.
They are all in favor of them in the abstract, but invariably come up with reasons why a specific location is inappropriate.
Like their opposition to "final disposal" of nuclear waste. Anywhere that is suggested is opposed, on the theory that perhaps the location isn't absolutely perfect. Which only results in the dangerous stuff remaining in temporary storage locations which are infinitely worse.
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Environmentalists generally demand perfection, no trade-offs allowed. Which, of course, allows them to remain ideologically pure. They refuse to muck about in the real world where real choices have to be made.
You are probably thinking of Yellowstone.
Oops. Maybe you shouldn't have voted for subsidizing those "green" energy companies, Senator.
One of my favorite examples of leftist multicultural hypocrisy is chronicled in this piece from the Harvard Crimson (yes,*that* Harvard Crimson).
A note to anyone who reads it;when you see references to Brattle Street and that particular neighborhood,remember that the homes there are among the most expensive you'll find in America and they're *all* owned by the movers and shakers at Harvard and MIT (senior faculty and administrators). Link:http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=241470
I am sure they wouldn't mind if they were built in Revere or Chelsea. They would never be caught dead in Chelsea!
You are so right. They complain but never have an answer to the problem.
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