Unless of course you are a Kennedy.
Ok. You asked for the Democrat poster-child.
Posted on 06/12/2006 9:44:14 AM PDT by ncountylee
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., has a new ally in his effort to torpedo an environmentally friendly "wind farm” off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis – the Pentagon.
The Defense Department has begun a study to find out if wind turbine projects designed to produce energy could interfere with military radar – even though wind farms are already operating in military radar areas.
The study is threatening not only the Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, but other wind farm projects around the country as well.
The study was inserted in the 2006 Defense Authorization Act by senators who want to block Cape Wind, according to wind farm developers cited by the Washington Post.
"This legislation was intended to derail Cape Wind, but it has a boomerang effect and affected a lot of projects around the country,” Michael Skelly of Horizon Wind Energy, which is building the nation’s largest wind farm near Bloomington, Ill., told the Post.
Wind turbine facilities in the works in Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Illinois have received word from the federal government that the projects must be put on hold while the study is ongoing.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Good Lord. Wind farms screw up military radar? I don't believe it.
Kennedy and his ilk's political clout and influence reaches far...probably Clinton appointees and hires within the Pentagon and Defense Department.
To quote Dean Vernon Wormer:
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son."
Unless of course you are a Kennedy.
Well, but what's the worst that could go wrong? The Russians bomb Boston?
However,there's no reason why we can't build a nuke plant somewhere around there.
That is assuming the result before the study is completed. It may prove there is no concern and lose one more baseless argument against wind energy.
Several wind farms are within this range of military radar with no problems.
This is a red herring.
And it kills little birdies....
Time to close down all military radar since he enemy can shut it off with WINDMILLS.
causes prostate cancer,too.
Man!! You just got to wonder about all this crap, it seems like we're shoveling $#it against the tide. They scream for wind farms, than when you put it in their backyard the NIMBY's (kennedys-Kerrys)scream bloody murder and get the Pentagon on their side. Has the Pentagon ever opposed a wind farm before??
Find out WHO in the Defense Dept is siding and aiding Ted Kennedy and you will find a TRAITOR....not because of the wind thingy but anyone in the DEFENSE dept that sides with Kennedy is NOT a friend of the military OR the USA!
Don't ever agree with Kennedy! He will turn on a dime, and in the case of the Wind Farms, he did that, back in May.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/26/kennedy_drops_demand_for_gubernatorial_veto_over_wind_farm_plan/
When I read that I wondered what we weren't being told, what hidden motive did Kennedy have for "softening" his position on the wind farms. I wager we still don't know the rest of the story, but I bet he knew back in May that the Pentagon was entering the fray.
Yeah, sort of like one of those "it's for the children" arguments.
I can't see how. Most of these are too low to the ground and have blades made of composite plastic materials rather than metal. Therefore they would reflect little if any radar energy.
Besides, I believe that radars can run baseline readings to filter out any results caused by wind farms.
Sounds like Kennedy whispered in someones ear to get that inserted into the report.
Unless of course you are a Kennedy.
Ok. You asked for the Democrat poster-child.
And what about the those obsolete propeller driven aircraft? WERE DOOMED! US is vulnerable to attack by antique airplanes!
They are permanently attached. We'll never be rid of them.
And where would the current corrupt, polluting energy industry companies/trade associations be then?
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