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To: cosmicforce who wrote (92724)	1/6/2005 2:57:20 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

but the kennedys do care about the environment... we have to give them credit. Or do we? save the environment - only do what I say, not what I do fastcompany.com Green technology has always been perched on the verge of the big time. Advocates of wind power. Gordon decided to try to build a wind farm in the middle of Nantucket Sound (between Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard, where Cronkite had a home). "We've had opposition on all of the projects we've developed," he says. "By nature, energy projects are controversial, and sometimes people don't want to live near them." At peak capacity, Gordon says his wind farm would produce enough power to supply the entire Cape, plus the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, while emitting zero pollution. It could reduce utility bills for consumers and businesses in Massachusetts. And besides pumping out 23,000 tons of sulfur dioxide every year, the Cape's existing power plant was involved in an oil spill in nearby Buzzards Bay in 2003. "I wasn't prepared for the ferocity." A well-funded group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, cropped up and recruited Cronkite and historian David McCullough as its spokesmen. Senator Ted Kennedy wrote an editorial in the Cape Cod Times opposing the project. His nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had spoken out against it too -- despite serving as the senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which supports wind power in general. (Though Gordon's wind turbines would be visible from the famous Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Robert Kennedy has said he opposes this plan because "we wouldn't build a wind farm in the middle of Yosemite.")