Cape Wind Farm Backers Target Congress

[Eugene]

(Associated Press)

Cape Wind Farm Backers Target Congress

Supporters Hope To Block Bill

POSTED: 3:58 pm EDT April 20, 2006
UPDATED: 6:31 pm EDT April 20, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Backers of the proposed wind farm off Cape Cod are trying to generate
some energy of their own on Capitol Hill -- scrambling to lobby lawmakers to kill
an amendment that could doom the project.

An alliance of 55 energy, labor and environmental groups is sending a joint letter
urging members of Congress to oppose the measure.

"There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component," said Mark Rodgers, a spokesman
for Cape Wind Associates, the developer of the project. "It's happening on a nationwide
basis."

The coalition, which announced the letter at a Washington news conference on Thursday,
claims that "backroom" politicking is behind an amendment that was tucked into a larger
$8.7 billion Coast Guard spending bill with no formal votes or hearings.

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[Sven77]

1. when are people going to figure it out

the oil companies fund the enviromentalist groups to keep the oil offline and drive prices up. windmills are the cheapest energy available today. how can it be worse than oil or coal ?