Bush Green-Lights Cape Wind; Pass the Popcorn, Please!

Redstate ^ | January 24, 2009 | Vladimir

[BAW]

Yr humble correspondent recently provided a run-down on the Cape Wind Project, a private initiative to construct a 130-tower windfarm in Nantucket Sound.

As it happens, offshore Massachusetts has the combined advantages of being ideally suited to wind power, while being relatively close to population centers. It has the distinct disadvantage of also being relatively close to Nantucket Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and a small but politically-influential compound at Hyannis Port. He-he-he.

One of the last official acts of George W. Bush as President was to give the project the go-ahead; the final Environmental Impact Statement was published last week; it rated the project’s environmental impact as “negligible”, apart from a “moderate” impact on the scenery.

Ted Kennedy sunbathing, the EIS notes, has an “ungodly” impact on the scenery. Just kidding.

Now it’s up to President Obama to either advance his green agenda or piss off New England’s rich & powerful. Without his interference, construction on the project could begin within a year.

[BAW]

I don’t know what to hope for here: a messy policy decision for the rookie President, a messy public snit on the part of the Kennedys, et al, or the defeat of uneconomic project whose only promise lies in its guarantee of the disposal of large sums of public money.

Pass the popcorn, please.

[skr]

Thank you again, Pres. Bush!!!

[castlebrew]

I think it’s a three-fer, myself.

A four-fer if you count the exposure of the “green-power” concept as uneconomical.

A fiver-fer if someone starts with the “environmental racism” chant.

[dianed]

Whoever said that Bush was stupid.....

nice checkmate!

[GQuagmire]

Link to view from Cape here

[citizen]

I’ve had my problems w/ President Bush but this was a really nice parting zinger. Gibbs would be stuttering bigtime trying to answer why a prime windfarm location that has passed enviro scrutiny should not be developed. bwahahahaha

[pankot]

Maybe, if we’re lucky it will piss the Kennedys off and they’ll all go back to Ireland and farm potatoes.

[ravinson]

Nantucket Sound played a key role in the Pilgrims' decision to land at Plymouth. They were supposed to be heading to the mouth of the Hudson, but the hazardously shallow shoals of Nantucket Sound pursuaded the captain of the Mayflower to turn back and up around the Cape.

What was a deadly hazard then is a great resource today. It provides both a source of power and a means for demonstrating the eco-fanaticism of the leftist elites that presentedly inhabit the area.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’m just sorry that they won’t be able to hear the ‘whoosh whoosh’ that the blades give off as they generate ‘clean’ electricity.