It is curious that a liberal like Ted Kennedy would oppose efforts aimed at saving the environment from global warming. After all, we’re ruining the globe with all our oil usage and any renewable fuel which reduces oil consumption should be welcome, right? Sure, as long as we don’t disturb the view from the Kennedy summer compound. Here’s a link to a article in the Boston Globe concerning the long struggle the Kennedy’s have waged against wind turbines in Nantucket Sound.
Environmental groups have launched an aggressive advertising and lobbying campaign to persuade Democrats to abandon Kennedy and back a promising source of renewable energy. If the wind farm becomes a reality, advocates say, it could provide three-fourths of the Cape and Islands’ energy needs and could set an example for the nation.
The maneuver to stop the wind farm ”is clearly a backroom deal, and they’re going to get called publicly on it,” said John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA. ”The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy.”
The 130-turbine, 24-square-mile cluster of windmills would be about 8 miles from Kennedy’s home in Hyannis Port, and he has long opposed it. The Coast Guard bill would give Governor Mitt Romney, another wind farm opponent, the power to veto it, even if the project clears all other hurdles.
Kennedy rejected suggestions that he doesn’t like the wind farm because it would be near his Cape home, and said the project probably wouldn’t be visible from the Kennedy compound. He said he’s against the project because it would create a range of environmental and navigational problems and would hurt tourism, one of the area’s key industries.
I’ve always been impressed that the liberal elites, who motor around in large vehicles and fly private jets get away with their sham concern for the environment. As long as others “pay” to help the environment with smaller cars and less consumption, they are in favor of conservation, but when asked to burden some inconvenience themselves, they opt out. Here Kennedy is worried that his view of the sound will be disturbed. Typical, very typical.
