Obama faces choice on Cape Cod wind farm (foe of project is Sen. Edward Kennedy)

Associated Press ^ | January 26, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's enthusiasm for alternative energy is being buffeted by two political forces on opposite sides of plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod.

[bigbob]

Do it. Screw Teddy and his snob NIMBY pals.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Now we’ll see who’s the boss.

My bet is K.

º will placate masta K and move the wind farm to someone else’s front door
only they won’t win the fight if they object.

[steelyourfaith]

Jason Lewis, substitute host for El Rushbo, August 11, 2008 on the E.I.B Network:

"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.

From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi²), and about 3 mi² for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."

 

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[wilco200]

This is when Kerry with the help of Ol’Buddy Ted gets payback on the Zero

[mgc1122]

PrezBO will figure out how to vote “present” and punt the issue ...

[Bon mots]

Not only that but another Kennedy is trying to screw the Indians over some wind project they are doing.

Funny how the libs are all shrieking about global warming and how we need to spend tax dollars on renewable energy like wind, and then look... they are all involved in wind and renewable energy!

Who would ever have guessed?

Joseph P. Kennedy II, whose father Robert F. Kennedy championed Native American rights, is at war with a band of Navajo Indians.

The Cameron Chapter of Navajo Nation is charging that Kennedy, president of Citizens Energy Corp. and its for-profit business 
Citizens Wind, is trying to seize control of a proposed wind farm on the tribe’s reservation on Gray Mountain in northern Arizona.

“Kennedy’s actions have single-handedly obstructed project development, delaying much-needed income and jobs for our nation,” 
said Edward Singer, president of the Navajos’ 1,500-member Cameron Chapter.

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[johnthebaptistmoore]

I’m guessing that President Obama will wait until Senator Kennedy’s replacement is officially in office before he actually decides what to do about this project.