Wind Farm decision delayed again

Kennedy does'nt want his view from the Kennedy Coumpound ruined! He has six acres on the waterfront of Nantucket Sound and sails on it alot. Just more proof of the two faced Democrat. And now they want to put another "Kennedy" into the mix for the "good" of the people. What a farce! Rich people should never be Elected to Office. They get into politics on the premise of helping the poor and nothing changes they jut get richer.

Look further into this ploy by the anti-wind-farm group. Who is spending huge amounts of money to delay and prevent this development? It's Big Oil, Big Coal, doing whatever they can to stop the development of clean renewable energy. Shame on them!

Oberstar's letter comes at the request of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, a group backed and fronted by Bill Koch, CEO of Oxbow. Oxbow's primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, petroleum coke, oil production, and composite pipe manufacturing. The Alliance's central mission is to stop Cape Wind, no matter what it takes, and has spent well over $15 million dollars, primarily on lawsuits, lobbying efforts and deliberate public relations campaigns promoting fear mongering and misinformation.

Uncle Ted must be feeling much better. He's up to his old Cape Wind tricks. He was in contact with Oberstar. Maybe they were just taking football? Seems to me that the Kennedy camelot is alive and well. God forbid that we use an abundant resource - wind (not the Ted kind) - to create electricity, jobs, and some form of independance. This is NIMBY at it's political and financial highest.

The USCG tried to submit an incomplete power-point presentation as a radar report. The stakeholders such as Hy-Line Cruise Lines, The Woods Hole, Marthas Vineyard Steamship Authority, The Passenger Vessels Association from Washington and The Massachusetts Fishermens Partnership were all promised a full reveiw of the new report when "finished". It was also promised by the USCG that a second hearing would take place in late December. These hearings were abruptly cancelled and the radar results were witheld. This is not politics, it is about the deadly effects of WindFarm Radar Interference on the users of these waters.

The USCG is not the only agency witha pending Cape Wind Wind Farm Radar Interference Report. The FAA is also conducting studies into the threat to safe air navigation to the 400,000 flights a year in this airspace between the Cape and the Islands. Cape Wind currently has been issued a FAA "Determination of Hazard" . Shell Oil just cancelled it's second UK offshore wind farm because of radar interference. The issue is very real and not of a political nature. Perhaps the Globe could cover these issues in addition to the Tribal issues raised by the Wampanoag and Aquinnah Tribes about their ancestrial burial grounds being disturbed and find out just how much this electricity is actually going to cost rate payers in addition to the approx $65,000,000 a year in Federal and State Tax subsidies. How can Massachusetts be shutting down services everywhere when this project is set to get approximately $40,000,000 a year for the next 20 years in Massachusetts subsidies. When will these issues be properly addressed by the media?

Why is it that questioning an irresponsible selection of location and technology of one instance of a wind project is touted as being against wind power itself? I have been in technology for 35 years and no corporation gives one technical solution only. Cape Wind is only one possible answer. With SO MANY drawbacks it appears not to be a good one.

DEEP WATER wind power and turbines are now being used in Europe and have addressed many of the concerns of shallow water technology encountered over the past few decades. Why would a leader in technology, such as MA is, choose inferior technology to lead the country in wind power?

This is not about Kennedy, nor is it about the wealthy, it's about coming up with a responsbile solution to the Cape's energy needs. The current project on the table is not that! It is not safe enough- to boaters or ships or radar or airplanes - it is located in one of the richest chlorophyll beds in the area, it is not flexible enough to change as new technology develops under the Obama administrations's economic initiatives, and it is environmentally invasive. WE CAN DO BETTER!

Please cover the larger picture here and not brand those questionsing Cape Wind as "against" clean energy - that's absurd. Let's expose better solutions like DEEP WATER wind energy which is over 90% of the available wind power potential of the US anyway!

This is a travesty! How on Earth is a wind farm off of the Massachusetts coast any business of a Minnesota Congressman? Is this another form of "Kissing" the Kennedy ring? "We need renewable energy" "We have to reduce Our use of foreign oil". "Wind power is a great idea" But just not off of the Kerry/Kennedy linw of sight! These sort of machinations sicken me and make one take pause and ponder our founding father's dream for a democratic land of the people.

I can't believe there isn't a better place to put these things than in navigable waters. There are certainly better ways and places to generate energy. If I were to use the "logic" of the anti-oil idiots I would say that it will be 10 years before we get a single electron out of those windmills so why bother.

Isn't this so typical of our posturing "environmentalists"? Last year a program aired about a fellow attempting to build the first new refinery in the USA in thirty years. He has yet to put a shovel in the ground with over ten years of "impact" studies, permitting yadda yadda yadda. Of course with each passing year to cost to erect this new refinery escalate exponentially. I'm not say not to proceed carefully but prdently should also be considered.