Officals Move to Protect Cape Cod Project

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2006/may/05/050505330.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration and two influential senators weighed in Friday against a provision that would block a 130-turbine wind farm off Cape Cod, where some of Washington's most powerful have vacation retreats.

The wind farm, which would be located in Nantucket Sound about six miles off shore, has been a focus of controversy for five years. Developers won favorable environmental reviews and hoped to have it completed in 2009.

A provision tucked into a bill authorizing activities for the U.S. Coast Guard would give Massachusetts' governor a veto over the project, although the turbines would be located in federal waters. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney opposes the project.

Energy Undersecretary David Garman on Friday called the provision "unwise" at a time when President Bush and many members of Congress are trying to spur the development of wind turbines as an alternative for generating electricity.

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[Kutjara]

1. NIMBY Bastards.

Give the jerks a choice; either they let the wind farm get built, or they get their flabby asses onto treadmills and, collectively, generate the same amount of electricity themselves. It's only fair.

[Ready4Change]

3. Hell, I'd embrace it.

Look out my window in the morning and seeing exactly water powered the machine that made the coffee I was drinking? Sign me up.

Heck, if rich people can't handle the altered view, maybe their prices would come down and I could live in their wrecked "hovels."

[NNadir]

2. Now this is a reversal. Bush is pushing for a renewable project

and Kennedy is opposing it.

I wonder if Bush pushing for wind power means that we should all oppose wind power. Chimpco.