re opposition to Cape Wind:
Here's a few facts and links:
The New York Times disagrees with you:
"...requiring the developer, Cape Wind Associates, to take several steps to mitigate possibly adverse effects on the environment — including views from the Kennedy Compound National Historic Landmark, which overlooks Nantucket Sound....Opposition to the proposal from Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died in August, had been a major thorn in the Obama administration’s side in advancing the project..." nytimes.com
Uber environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to put the kibosh on plans to build the kind of wind-farm he regularly touts as an environmentally sound alternative to fossil fuels, saying it would block views of Nantucket Sound from Cape Cod - which just happens to be home to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port.
"It's time for RFK Jr. to lead the Cape and islands towards a clean energy revolution," Greenpeace spokesman Chris Miller tells the Cape Cod Times. "It's about a vision for healthy oceans, not the view from the Kennedy compound." webcache.googleusercontent.com
It is hard to overstate (Senator) Kennedy’s role in delaying Cape Wind thus far. Efforts in Congress to torpedo the project, often by stealthy legislative or regulatory means, have always come directly or indirectly from Kennedy’s office, project backers say. They add that Kennedy and his staff behave as if stopping their project is the senator’s top legislative priority.
Kennedy’s staff itself has been quick to insist that the senator’s disapproval stems from environmental and cost-benefit objections, not a personal desire to keep the waters off the Kennedy compound free of turbines. But the MMS report, oddly enough, specifically noted that the project would impede the view from the home of its most high-profile opponent: “Cape Wind will also have an adverse visual impact on 28 historic properties including the Kennedy compound..." nationalreview.com
Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and nearly every major environmental group in the nation supported the project cnn.com
Charles and David Koch, conservative billionaire Republican anti-environmentalist oilmen, have been in an alliance with the Kennedys to stop Cape Wind. That's a very odd alliance. They've spent 10 years and millions of dollars fighting it, every way they can think of.
Here's an excellent article in the New Yorker, on the Koch brothers:
In 1977, the Kochs provided the funds to launch the nation’s first libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute... ...When President Obama, in a 2008 speech, described the science on global warming as “beyond dispute,” the Cato Institute took out a full-page ad in the Times to contradict him...
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