Posted on 02/28/2006 3:15:30 PM PST by ncountylee
BOSTON A leading opponent of the controversial Cape Wind development proposed for Nantucket Sound has come out against a pending move to kill the project in Congress.
And theres a twist.
The call for withdrawal of the so-called Young amendment, which would ban wind turbines within 1.5 nautical miles of ferry and shipping lanes, comes from the nephew of one of Cape Winds key political adversaries, Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and staunch public critic of the 130-turbine Cape Wind project, has written a letter to members of a congressional conference committee denouncing the move by Republican Alaska Congressman Don Young, which Cape Wind officials say would make their wind farm logistically impractical.
This provision would foreclose or severely limit the potential for development of appropriate offshore wins facilities in the United States, wrote Kennedy in the February 24 letter, portions of which were obtained by CBS4 News.
The Young amendment, Kennedy added, is simply not good government.
In an interview with CBS4 last week, Ted Kennedy brushed aside questions about the Young amendment, saying only that he had been informed of its late insertion into the Coast Guard budget appropriation.
In an interview with CBS4 last week, Ted Kennedy brushed aside questions about the Young amendment, saying only that he had been informed of its late insertion into the Coast Guard budget appropriation.
His nephews objections to the amendment come amid a rising chorus of protest over the move to kill Cape Wind from the likes of Sen. John Kerry, who has not taken a position for or against the project, and Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, a project supporter.
In a related development, a New York Times editorial Tuesday denounces the Young amendment, stating in part: Cape Wind has been the subject of endless environmental reviews. We believe it should be approved. But if there are objections to be made, they should be made in the open and not by stealth.
Kennedy against Kennedy.
A real battle of mental giants, eh?
Can you say "typical lib"?
Let em settle it with muskets at ten paces.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an insult to all self respecting stupid tools.
Didn't RFK Jr. have a drug problem?
That would seem to sum it up better.
Cape Wind vs. Cape Windbags.
Trial of the century!
Bloviating blowhard passes wind while pissing into it. Fertilizer hits turbine!
They SHOULD put those windmills RIGHT in the backyards of people who favor immigration.
Because immigration has added 150 million more electric users since the 1960s.
See what inbreading does.
In 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was arrested in South Dakota for heroin possession and went into drug treatment for his addiction.
-In 1970, he was arrested in Hyannis, Mass., for marijuana possession; he spent 13 months on probation.
-In August 1983, he was cited for operating a boat that was inadequately equiped with safety devices and unregistered, off Cape Cod, Mass.
-In September 1983, he was charged in Rapid City, S.D., for possession of two-tenths of a gram of heroin. In February 1984, he pleaded guilty to the charge. In March 1984, he was convicted. He was given a suspended sentence.
-While married to first wife Emily, he made pregnant Mary Richardson, now his second wife.
-On May 9, 1992, he "ran over" Mary Wallace Anderson, a friend of his ex-wife, while she attempted to enter the vehicle he was driving. He was sued for carelessness, recklessness and negligence.
My favorite quote RE: the Kennedys:
"The Kennedys would lie even if the truth better served their purposes."-Gore Vidal
""The Kennedys would lie even if the truth better served their purposes."-Gore Vidal"
"I was ambivalent about it, before I was ambivalent about it."
The only thing worse than limousine liberals are Gulfstream environmentalists.
Tha Kennedys aren't fit to woipe the Hurleys' ar$es.
These clowns are insane. On the other hand, I just view it as the environment must be in great shape overall if the people who preach so much about saving it live such lavish lifestyles and all..
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