Not Off My Back Porch [Wind Power Project Threatens to Block Kennedy's View......]

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Not Off My Back Porch Nation's First Offshore Wind Power Project Threatens to Block Kennedy's View and the Senator Isn't Happy By DAVID SCHOETZ

March 30, 2007 — - A major battle in the politics of alternative energy has moved to a final phase in Washington, and a senator named Kennedy with a waterfront view and a bone to pick awaits.

Friday was a good day for Jim Gordon, the man hungry to build America's first offshore wind farm off the Cape Cod coast.

The state environmental office -- one of a battery of local, state and federal agencies reviewing the project's permits -- ruled that his proposal to build 130 turbines in the waters of Nantucket Sound complies with the state's environmental policy.

Gordon and his Cape Wind project, which he says would generate 79 percent of the power for Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, have been pitched in a series of regulatory battles since 2001.

Already, he has spent $30 million in pursuit of the renewable energy project, which he argues the nation desperately needs to help combat global warming and promote energy independence.

While there currently are no wind farms off American shores, they're a clean power source that have gained increasing acceptance around the world, perhaps most notably in Denmark.

There are also other states -- Texas, New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia, for example -- either interested or already pursuing wind power with a close eye on Cape Wind's experience.

"We're behind in the global scene and we shouldn't be," Gordon said during a press conference, calling his proposal "the apex of environmental stewardship."

But while the news at the state level may be cheery, Cape Wind isn't ready for construction just yet.

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hypocrite.....where's your compassion for the environment......??? think of the carbon offsets! fool.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Build it! Build it! Build it!

[ronnie raygun]

I think fat head Ted needs an intervention by fat Al!

[xcamel]

amazing amount of background on FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=kennedy%20wind

[bert]

Meanwhile in Jerico, a portion of the male population is enslaved to manufacture wind generators.

Slavery is the answer to running out of oil

[Argus]

Harvest Ted's hot air instead.

[Tribune7]

ping

[David_G_Burnet]

As much as I think wind power is idiotic in proportion to today's power needs, I hope they build it just to spite the Bloated Swimmer (and the millions of idiot voters that have kept him in office so long).

Heck, he might even get so apoplectic, his liver might finally 'splode.

Now if they built a nucular power plant in Hyannis I think it'd just have to blow my wad.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Yes...having Albore go head to head with Ted would be excellent theater!

[dbehsman]

If I recall correctly, Walter Cronkite also has a place very close to Ted Kennedy, and like Kennedy, he's a big hypocritical environmentalist.

From the article:
Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shared Kennedy's disdain for the project.

I don't know what Romney's reasoning is, but that just lowered him a few more points in my book.

[Rick_Michael]

LET'S BUILD A DAM ON TED KENNEDY'S MOUTH!

Surely that will help us a bit, and think of all the food we'll be saving.