Putting Kennedy cronies on the review board for the Cape Wind project Kennedy opposed, as it would ruin his view, seems to be a strange move for a black Green president allegedly committed to alternative energy, don't ya think? Just words - aka hot air, just not when it comes to wind turbines near the Kennedy compound. Change!
BOSTON -- The fate of a controversial wind farm off Cape Cod that's been reviewed for eight years now rests in the seemingly friendly hands of the Obama administration.
But Cape Wind's prospects remain uncertain.
Obama is pro-clean energy but he's never publicly mentioned the project, which would be the nation's first offshore wind farm.
Some Cape Wind advocates say Obama's silence is out of respect for one of his early backers, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, a fierce Cape Wind opponent.
Obama's interior secretary, Ken Salazar, has called Cape Wind "a good project," but two high-level Obama appointees to agencies connected to the project's review have links to its chief opposition.
Salazar has said he would decide on Cape Wind by the end of April.
Aside from the Kennedy clan's concerns, this could come back and bite Massachusetts governor and Obama bud Deval Patrick in the butt come election time in November, if Barack is seen as scuttling the wind farms to placate the rich liberal Democrats on the cape who want a pristine view of the eastern horizon.
Posted by: John | Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 01:01 PM
Pheh. They could get more energy from methane reclamation at the Kennedy compound.
Posted by: Ran / Si Vis Pacem | Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 03:57 PM
I dont see any reason to resist this deal any more as Teddies view is pretty clear from where he's at now.
Posted by: Rich K | Monday, January 25, 2010 at 01:23 AM
I'm not sure any of the rich liberals on the Cape can see the horizon - at least not after noon
Posted by: bandit | Monday, January 25, 2010 at 08:44 AM
I have been to places (Denmark, northern Germany) where wind power is fairly common, even offshore wind power. Truth is, you really do not notice them after 5 minutes.
Posted by: Room 237 | Monday, January 25, 2010 at 08:44 AM
Wind is a mature technology that has not retired one fossil fuel plant where it has been used extensively. The amortized cost per kwh is 3 to 4 times conventional base load generation and is not likely to come down in the future. Ted Kennedy was a pompous windbag of a hypocrite, but wind power may be the only thing where I agreed with him, although for different reasons.
Posted by: Old School Conservative | Monday, January 25, 2010 at 08:55 AM
Cape wind power is going to cost .24/kwh twice what we pay now in this state. This however is not the reason Ted was against it. It was the view from his compound.
Check out this daily show link
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=91140&title=jason-jones-180-%E2%80%93-nantucket
Posted by: Sox Fan | Monday, January 25, 2010 at 03:25 PM
KENNEDY SENATE FLOOR STATEMENT ON THE CAPE WIND PROJECT May 9, 2006:
(excerpts with full text provided by link below)
"One reason Massachusetts needs a voice here is because the project threatens the livelihoods of Massachusetts' fishermen. Nantucket Sound has accounted for annual catches of over a million pounds of squid and fish. Nearly 50 to 60 percent of that catch is from the portion of the Nantucket Sound where EMI wants to place massive wind turbines.
That is why the Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership strongly opposes the Cape Wind project, and why the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has stated that it "remains greatly concerned that this project may have substantial . . . impacts to fisheries resources, habitat and harvest activities in Nantucket Sound."
"This project also has serious implications for the safety of navigation in and around Nantucket Sound."
http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/27/3197897-kennedy-floor-statement-on-the-cape-wind-project-
Subjects: Energy Tribune Managing Editor Robert Bryce, Boone Pickens, and interviewer John Stossel. Enjoy!
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3981431/is-energy-independence-a-hoax/?
playlist_id=87185
Posted by: Barbara Durkin | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 09:54 AM
Follow Missouri's wannabe Kennedys -the Carnahans- to see how this racket works. Head of Wind Capital Group, gosh -brother of pro-Crap and Tax Congressman Russ Carnahan and the Sec. of State sister Robin-running-for US Senate, flat out says in a CNN Money interview posted on the Wind Capital website that wind looks like a "good bet" with Crappy Tax bill.
http://www.24thstate.com/2009/12/wind-capital-group-likes-free-tax-money.html
Posted by: Moright | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 01:57 PM