Posted on 04/29/2010 5:40:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his grave!
The Obama administration has given the green light for the nation's first offshore wind farm off the pristine coast of Cape Cod -- a surprise move in direct opposition to the wishes of the mighty Massachusetts political icon who helped propel the president to power.
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement yesterday in Boston, capping a nine-year federal review process that pitted the liberal Kennedy clan -- whose Hyannis Port compound is near the future wind farm -- against fellow Dems and some environmental groups.
A month before he died, Ted Kennedy -- who was one of President Obama's earliest backers -- wrote the president a letter begging him to stop the wind farm from being erected.
"He [Ted Kennedy] would be heartbroken," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
if they build them, there should be a trust fund put in place to have them removed.
I would bet it never happens. It will be tied up in courts for years.
Sucks to be a friend of Obama...
Please........this will be tied up in the Courts, enriching lawyers, for decades.
In the meantime, O visited Siemens in Ohio and awarded them a huge contract. No work will be done but the money will be flowing.
Ready torpedo tube #1.
“...Sucks to be a friend of Obama......”
He has friends?????
Not to worry he can’t see them from where he is!
Sure ... just call it the Kennedy Wind Farm (sort of like the “double” meaning of that!)
Big blow? Hah. Did the Kennedys really think Obama was their friend? Idiots.
“He [Ted Kennedy] would be heartbroken,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer...
Here’s a news flash...when you fall in love with a socio-path, you always end up broken hearted. At the end of his life, everyone who had any intimate dealings with Barack Obama will secretly harbor the same sad thought. “I had such high hopes...how did I end up broken hearted?”
That feeling is the litmus test for a socio-pathic relationship. The only problem is confirmation only comes after its too late.
The longest Teddy has without a drink and still they want to toast him. Cheers Teddy and in your face.
Bingo! That's what we found out. Plus they're ugly, the whine can cause all sorts of reactions to those near enough (jury still out on that), and they kill birds.
The birds may eventually adapt their flight path, but even little birds haven't learned not to fly into plate glass.
I'm more for those smaller windmills that for one local acreage owner or farmer seems to have paid for itself in 7 years or less, it supplies all his electricity needs, and he has extra to sell back to the grid at the going rate.
I don't know what they would be in terms of maintenance costs, however. Every farmer who would want one of those smaller ones, I'd be all for that.
Interesting this comes at the same time the old-fashioned windmills have mostly disappeared, and the ones that remain, there is a nostalgia for and many find them of photographic interest as some also do with the huge, monster ones.
Gott love the thing about disturbing ancient indian burial grounds...aren’t these things like 20 miles offshore? so now you throw a body in the Atlantic and *presto* it’s a burial ground?
....I live in the southern Appalachians and we fought off wind farms 2 years ago in my county...but I know they’ll keep coming...they are mostly outfits from out of state who think we’re rubes, so they can run it by us...they play on people’s save-the-planet emotions...they never talk about the drawbacks that your post mentioned...or say that in the winter those turbines throw off boulder-sized blocks of ice.
Not even the Kennedy’s are safe from Obama, ping.
Yes, I fear it's inevitable. At least you fought it as best you could. And I was stupid, my son thought it was a good idea as it could generate more income for me, so only then did I start asking questions and learned the downside. I forgot about throwing off ice. Just recently I saw a photo of the INSIDE of one of those monsters, reminded me of a missile silo.
There's a related thread here:
Wind turbines making us sick: Protestors
I know I wouldn't like to live near the whine either. To some extent, we can adapt, but how fast and at what cost?
The smaller ones seem like a better solution if we have to have them and developing more solar technology (that looks strange, too) and not a total solution (see below).
I think some liberals and conservatives alike would like to return our world to a pristine environment, but people and their needs at this time in history are what they are.
Did you notice they're playing up the oil spill? By no means do I minimize the tragedy and the consequences of that. But it will be used to counter the "Drill, Baby, drill" mantra. We live in an imperfect world, have to face it and have to make the best of it.
Do you think I could have a smaller one in my backyard? Not a chance. Why? Environmental again, NIMBY. There seems to be no perfect solution, but every aspect of it is agenda-driven and not in the best interest of a lot of people.
Burn wood? Smoke is bad for you and others. Burn corn? Waste of food. Harness the ocean currents? Bad for fish. Hydroelectric plants? Bad for fish again. Solar? Doesn't work in some parts of the country to supply sufficient need, still more for affluent although you can build your own if you understand the technology and have the DIY skills.
What has always bothered me about the anti-drilling people is I guess it's not ok to mess up our environment with it, but it's ok for the mideast and elsewhere to mess up theirs? And all the rest of it. Granted that a lot of that is desert, so why should we care, anyway? We don't know what those empty cavities cause by emptying the earth pockets from which it comes in terms of techtonic plates, at least I don't.
No matter where we go from here, we need to ease into it, not put all our eggs in one basket so to speak. Horses were bad? Yes, there was a downside to it. Cars are good? They or I should say drivers of them have killed thousands of people. Everything comes at a price. So did the horse and buggy days; people got killed in those, too.
And nature seems to have a way of mocking all our efforts; we think we're in control. To some extent we've learned to be, but stop and earthquake, tornado, volcano, other natural disasters? I think not. I once thought interstate highways were almost the greatest thing since sliced bread. Felt safer on them at first. Now I no longer do because of the high speeds, so many more large semis, and such increased traffic. Would I eliminate them? Of course not.
There I had my say for now.
No, I haven't. I LOVE stone walls lol. I think they enhance the environment and are so picturesque plus they don't particularly hurt anything of which I'm aware. IOW they're natural and harmonize with the environment.
These recent dekes by Ubanga - - the modest okay to drill in certain areas, acceptance of future nuclear power plants, and now the windfarm - - are just sneaky attempts to set the stage for tax hikes and radical enviro-nazi measures. The communist scumbag Ubanga and his rats are lusting for those “cap and trade” zillion$ and higher gas taxes.
Plus, I’ve heard that gasoline prices are expected to go through the roof this summer. Ubanga wants to look like he’s ahead of the curve.
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