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...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Simply amazing how a bunch of low-life Irish mobsters have been transformed into 'royalty' by blindly loyal presstitutes.
I'm no JFK conspiracy nut but when you consider the company this 'family' have kept since Joe started his criminal empire it's easy to see how it might have been a mob hit.
And lest we forget, the Kennedy Krime Syndicate still gets $1 from every bottle of Scotch whiskey imported into the United States...
ANWR.
lol
This is RFK, Jr., not Fat Red Ted.
Incidentally, if he's against subsidizing this wind farm, maybe he's against subsidizing all companies? Is that too much to hope for?
In that group fighting the windmills you will find Senator John Warner.
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