Posted on 04/25/2006 9:31:36 PM PDT by peggybac
The infamous environmental group Greenpeace is targeting Sen. Ted Kennedy for opposing a wind farm in the Nantucket Sound because it would interfere with the view from his Hyannisport mansion.
Greenpeace is launching a nationwide TV ad campaign against Kennedy, with spots that portray the Massachusetts Democrat as Godzilla.
The Cape Cod Times reports:
"In the 30-second spot, a cartoon Kennedy looms over the water like a Japanese movie monster, pounding wind turbines as they sprout from the water, and barks, 'I might see them from my mansion on the Cape.'"
Kennedy's nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a leading environmentalist who urges Americans to cut back on energy consumption and who blamed Bush environmental policies for Hurricane Katrina. But he, too, opposes the wind farm in Nantucket Sound - going so far as to argue that it would cause pollution.
By running the ads, Greenpeace hopes to torpedo an amendment to a Coast Guard bill that would make a proposed Nantucket wind farm vulnerable to state veto.
"'We've targeted the Senate because we need leaders to stop this amendment before it can even be voted," Greenpeace spokesgal Kate Smolski told the Times.
"By running the ads, Greenpeace hopes to torpedo..."
HA! And here I thought those watermelon types were opposed to Weapons of Massachusetts Destruction!
I thought Greenpeace liked whales?
There once was a Senator from Nantucket.
This should be fun to watch, the moonbats going after the liberal elite.
who drank gin by the bucket
For flatulence...
"Err-aah,err-aah I know wind energy. Yessir. I'm the biggest bag of wind around!", Kennedy replied.
Even the NY Times is going after Kennedy:
NY Times Backs Wind Farm Ted Kennedy Wants Killed
In a blistering editorial, the New York Times has attacked legislation that would effectively torpedo plans to build an environmentally friendly wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.
And the bill has all the trappings of a behind-the-scenes move by "environmentalist” Ted Kennedy.
The legislation concerns plans to erect dozens of wind turbines about six miles off the coast to provide clean energy to Cape Cod and nearby islands.
"It is supported by nearly every major environmental group and by citizens who see it as a source of clean energy at a time of soaring prices for oil and natural gas, as well as an alternative to coal-, oil- and gas-fired power plants that contribute in varying degrees to global warming,” the Times editorial states.
But as author Peter Schweizer first revealed in his best-selling book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” Sen. Kennedy opposed the plan because some of the turbines would be placed near his favorite sailing site just off the family compound in Hyannis Port.
TV channel CBS4 in Boston acknowledged Kennedy’s opposition, saying the Senator "would be able to see the turbines from his family compound.”
Yet given the popular support for the project, how could Kennedy openly oppose it – especially, as Schweizer writes, after introducing "dozens of pieces of legislation over the years to encourage the development of solar, hydrogen and wind as alternatives to oil and coal”?
Enter two GOP lawmakers from Alaska, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who inserted an amendment – "hatched in secret” and "never debated in either house,” according to the Times – into the Coast Guard authorization bill.
Regarding their opposition, the Times notes, "it seems unlikely that it is due to any principled concern about wind farms on the other side of the continent.”
The amendment would give veto power over the project to the commandant of the Coast Guard and the governor of Massachusetts.
Pro-choice his Bay view to preserve,
Rankled the Greenpeacers' nerve,
NIMBY! Hypocrites, nasty hypocrites!
A so called 'blight' on the view is small price to pay, for reduced foriegn oil dependance. If the bill passes, and gives Romney power to veto it, and assuming that he does, I'm sure it will hurt him come election time--assuming no white house run--.
There once was a man from Nantucket...
I support Greenpeace occasionaly - and this one has me.
Git it on!
And he said with a grin - as he wiped off his chin - if my
ah you know the rest.
I live in view of windmills, 7000 of them to be semi-exact. The view isn't bad, except for all those filleted raptors. Seriously, I have no problem with them nearby. They have a charm of their own even though they are nowhere near the charm of Holland's.
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