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Cape Wind Win

By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | April 28, 2010 | +

As a frequent visitor to , and devoted admirer of, Cape Cod–the herring were running last weekend (one of Ted Kennedy’s favorite events)–I am thrilled that the nation’s first offshore wind farm will be located in Nantucket Sound. This was opposed by fair-weather environmentalists like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (and, sadly, by his uncle) because it would occlude their water views. Tough luck!

I look forward to more wind farms in the neighborhood, perhaps one in Cape Cod Bay–on my favored side of the peninsula. I love the way windmills look. Even more, I love the non-carbonated energy they generate.

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  • nflfoghorn

    When the fog rolls in would you ever see them?

  • Barbara Kiviat

    Agreed! One of my favorite drives in the U.S. is from Phoenix to L.A., in no small part because of the windmill farms around Palm Springs. What an elegant human creation, the industrial windmill.

  • newfreedomblog

    Oh Joe Klein. Perhaps your “not in my neighborhood” mentality to windmills is hitting home right where I live. Windmill companies want to level the tops of the mountains here so that they can put up more windmills. Isn’t that great?
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    Totally destroy a very fragil environmental eco-system so that dozens of windmills can be plopped down on the tops of the mountains. The other great problem they will have is how they will then transfer all of this electrical “carbon neutral” energy into the grids. Now that is a great idea, destroying acres upon acreas of rich farmland to run those big high tension electrical cables. But, that is no big deal right?
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    But guess who is fighting the windmills here? I’ll bet you think it is Environmentalist, right? Wrong. It is our local environmentalists who are fighting the windmill companies out of Spain. Yes Spain, not American windmill companies, but Spainish windmill companies. So many good Spainish jobs will go down the tubes because people here are saying “No thanks”.

  • apr2563

    NewRusty: You have become an environmentalist and are agreeing with the corrupt, vile, murdering, raping Kennedy family? Or, is this another of your contrarian reflexes about any decision made by the Obama administration?

  • apr2563

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/oil-spill-gulf-of-mexico-_0_n_554852.html
    Guess you prefer this. Maybe not. Obama supports off shore drilling. Do you?

  • deconstructiva

    ….”Spainish”?

  • sidnancy

    I look forward to the day one of them catches fire and crashes into the ocean, spewing 42,000 barrels of… oh wait, never mind.

  • Ike Jakson

    Shucks Joe

    I am so pleased for your sake that you have other interests besides journalism. Take at much time as possible of the latter and get some cod. It’s good eating and not nearly as heavy on the blood pressure as politics. And readers won’t fight you on that either; maybe they will all be happy to have Joe the Fisherman as a friend.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Check back rusty and you’ll know how I felt about NIMBY on this very specific example when it first came up when I was in the Boston area.
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    I hate NIMBY!
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    Everywhere is somebody’s backyard, so, unless it is poisoning your air, polluting your drinking water or causing huge amounts of noise so that it will harm your hearing or the health of your family, don’t block it.
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    Progress!
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    If we had all of this NIMBY during World War II, almost none of our bases would be built.
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    If we had this kind of NIMBY in the 1870s, there would never have been the railroads.
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    If we had this kind of NIMBY in the 1920s onwards, there would have been no power lines, no telephone lines, no interstate highways…
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    Progress involves something homely somewhere within the horizon of somebody’s home.
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    Some accommodations can and must be made, but, blocking everything anywhere near where anybody lives would limit us unimaginably.
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    Wind power: less greenhouse gasses, less money going to unstable oil producing countries who’s people may want to use the money to murder us and more jobs for Americans.
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    I love it!

  • maverick2k9

    There is a tea bagger astro-turf connection to this (Source:Wikipedia).
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    While one brother is astro-turfing NIMBYmentalists, the other is astro-turfing tea baggers!!

    Bill Koch donated $1.5 million to Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. Its goal is to prevent the construction of Cape Wind, a wind power project located in Nantucket Sound, near Koch’s Cape Cod house.

    FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity both originated from a campaign called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which split in two in 2004. CSE was set up by businessman (Koch Industries), David Koch, who has also promoted liberty and research organizations (Cato Institute and Reason Foundation). Citizens for a Sound Economy (grassroots machine) merged with Empower America (policy expertise) in 2004 and was renamed FreedomWorks, with Dick Armey, Jack Kemp and C. Boyden Gray serving as co-chairmen, Bill Bennett focusing on school choice as a Senior Fellow, and Matt Kibbe as President and CEO.

  • lcky9

    I don’t get it.. they don’t want gas, oil, wood, coal, nuclear or wind just how do we get our energy? some of us live where it’s COLD in the winter..

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